JR Is

, or East Japan Railway Company in English, is the largest company of railroad transporting of the passengers in the world. JR Est is one of the eight companies of JR.

History

The company JR East was creates on April 1st 1987, during the dismantling and of the partial privatization of Japanese National Railway , and was entirely privatisée in 2002. JR Est exploits railway lines in the area of Tōkyō, its suburbs, the area of Tohoku and its accesses, is all the north-eastern half of the island of Honshū.

Lines

Its railway lines serve as the areas of Kanto and Tohoku mainly, with the adjacent parts of the prefectures of Niigata, of Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka.

Shinkansen

JR Est exploits all Shinkansen (railway lines at high speed) in the north of Tōkyō.

JR Central exploits the Tokaido Shinkansen of Tōkyō to Osaka although this line makes several stops in the area of Tōkyō.

Area of Tōkyō

Lines:
  • Akabane (赤羽線, あかばねせん ) (Ikebukuro   - Akabane)
  • Chūō Hand (中央本線, ちゅうおうほんせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Hachioji   - Kofu)
  • Bus Chūō-Sōbu (中央 ・ 総武線各駅停車, ちゅうおうそうぶせんかくえきていしゃ ) (Mitaka   - Akihabara   - Chiba)
  • Hachikō (八高線, はちこうせん ) (Hachiōji   - Takasaki)
  • Itsukaichi (五日市線, いつかいちせん ) (Haijima   - Musashi Itsukaichi)
  • Joban (常磐線, じょうばんせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Hitachi)
  • Karasuyama (烏山線, からすやません ) (Karasuyama   - Hōshakuji)
  • Kashima (鹿島線, かしません ) (Katori   - Kashima)
  • Kawagoe (川越線, かわごえせん ) (Ōmiya   - Kawagoe   - Komagawa)
  • Keihin Tohoku (京浜東北線, けいひんとうほくせん ) (Ōmiya   - Station Tōkyō   - Yokohama)
  • Keiyō (京葉線, けいようせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Soga)
  • Kururi (久留里線, くるりせん ) (Kisarazu   - Kazusa Kameyama)
  • Mito (水戸線, みとせん ) (Oyama   - Tomobe)
  • Musashino (武蔵野線, むさしのせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Nishi Funabashi   - Fuchū Hommachi) (external Tōkyō buckles)
  • Nambu (南武線, なんぶせん ) (Kawasaki   - Tachikawa)
  • Narita (成田線, なりたせん ) (Sakura   - Chōshi   ; Abiko  - Narita   ; Narita  - Airport)
  • Negishi (根岸線, ねぎしせん ) (Yokohama   - Ōfuna)
  • Nikkō (日光線, にっこうせん ) (Utsunomiya   - Nikko)
  • Ōme (青梅線, おうめせん ) (Tachikawa   - Ōme   - Okutama)
  • Ryōmō (両毛線, りょうもうせん ) (Oyama   - Shin   - Maebashi)
  • Sagami (相模線, さがみせん ) (Hachiōji   - Chigasaki)
  • Saikyō (埼京線, さいきょうせん ) (Ōsaki   - Ômiya)
  • Shōnan-Shinjuku (湘南新宿ライン, しょうなんしんじゅくらいん ) (Ōmiya   - Shinjuku   - Ōfuna)
  • Sōbu (総武本線, そうぶほんせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Chōshi)
  • Sotobō (外房線, そとぼうせん ) (Chiba   - Mobara   - Awa Kamogawa)
  • Takasaki (高崎線, たかさきせん ) (Ōmiya   - Takasaki)
  • Togane (東金線, とうがねせん ) (Naruto   - Ōami)
  • Tohoku Hand/Utsunomiya (東北本線, とうほくほんせん /宇都宮線, うつのみやせん ) (Ueno   - Kuroiso)
  • Tokaido (東海道本線, とうかいどうほんせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Yokohama   - Atami)
  • Tsurumi (鶴見線, つるみせん ) (Tsurumi   - Ōgimachi   ; Anzen  - Ōkawa   ; Asano  - Umishibaura)
  • Uchibō (内房線, うちぼうせん ) (Soga   - Kisarazu   - Awa Kamogawa)
  • Yamanote (山手線, やまのてせん ) (Tōkyō inner loop)
  • Yokohama (横浜線, よこはません ) (Higashi Kanagawa   - Hachiōji)
  • Yokosuka (横須賀線, よこすかせん ) (Station Tōkyō   - Kurihama)

Tokay and Koshinetsu

August 1st

Tohoku

August 1st

Subsidiary companies

  • Higashi-Nihon Kiosk
    • Drunk
  • JR Bus Kanto/JR Tohoku
  • Japanese Restoring Monorail Enterprise
  • Tokyo - (70%)

Others

External bonds

  • JR Is (in English)

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