East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company

Native name	東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
Type	Public KK
Traded as	: : : 9020
Industry	Private railway
Predecessor	Japanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded	1 April 1987 (privatization of JNR)
Headquarters	2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Kanto and Tohoku regions Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures
Key people	Satoshi Seino (Executive Chairman) Masaki Ogata (Executive Vice Chairman) Tetsurō Tomita (Representative Director and President)
Products	Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services	passenger railways freight services bus transportation other related services
Revenue	¥2,671,822 million(FY 2013) ¥2,532,174 million(FY 2012)
Operating income	¥397,562 million(FY 2013) ¥360,025 million(FY 2012)
Net income	¥175,384 million(FY 2013) ¥108,738 million(FY 2012)
Total assets	¥7,223,204 million(FY 2013) ¥7,060,409 million(FY 2012)
Total equity	¥2,048,192 million(FY 2013) ¥1,890,634 million(FY 2012)
Owner	Japan Trustee Services Bank (4.86%) The Master Trust Bank of Japan (4.11%) The JR East Employees Shareholding Association (3.33%) The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (3.16%) Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (2.66%) Mizuho Corporate Bank (2.53%) Mizuho Bank (2.47%) SSBT OD05 OMNIBUS ACCOUNT—TREATY CLIENTS (2.29%) Nippon Life (2.03%) Dai-ichi Life (2.02%) (as of 31 March 2013)
Number of employees	73,017 (as of 31 March 2013)
Divisions	Railway operations Life-style business IT & Suica business
Subsidiaries	83 companies, including Tokyo Monorail
Website	www.jreast.co.jp
Footnotes / references

East Japan Railway Company
Line up of JR East Shinkansen trains, October 2009
Operation
National railway	Japan Railways Group
Infrastructure company	Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
Statistics
Ridership	6.169 billion per year
Passenger km	130.5 billion per year
System length
Total	7,526.8 km (4,676.9 mi)
Double track	3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)
Electrified	5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)
High-speed	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)
Track gauge
Main	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
High-speed	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification
Main	1,500 V DC overhead catenary 2,680.3 km (1,665.5 mi)
20 kV AC, 50 Hz	1,779.5 km (1,105.7 mi) Conventional lines in Tohoku Joban Line (Fujishiro-Iwanuma) Mito Line
25 kV AC, 50/60 Hz overhead	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz) Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz) Hokuriku Shinkansen (50/60 Hz)
Features
No. tunnels	1,263
Tunnel length	882 km (548 mi)
Longest tunnel	The Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel 25,808 m (84,672 ft) Tohoku Shinkansen
No. bridges	14,865
Longest bridge	No.1 Kitakami River Bridge 3,868 m (12,690 ft) Tohoku Shinkansen
No. stations	1,703
Map Shinkansen lines Conventional lines Greater Tokyo Area Network Map Suica and PASMO Network Map

East Japan Railway Company (東日本旅客鉄道株式会社, Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudo Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a major passenger railway company in Japan and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon^?) in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo.

JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002.

Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Tohoku region, and surrounding areas.

Its railway lines primarily serve Kanto and Tohoku regions, along with adjacent areas in Koshin'etsu region (Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi) and Shizuoka prefectures.