[Translation]【Cover】【Filing Document】

Change of Status Report No.1

【Applicable provision】

Article 27-25, Paragraph 1 of the Financial Instruments
and Exchange Act【Filed with】

Director-General of the Tokai Local Finance Bureau【Name】

Masayuki Matsumoto,President and Representative Director,
Central Japan Railway Company【Address or location of head office】

1-1-4, Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi【Effective date of reporting duty】

May 11, 2009

【Filing date】

May 15, 2009

【Total number of submitter and joint holders】 1【Filing method】

Other【Reason for submission of report on changes】Decrease of 1 % or more from the previously reported
percentage of shares and other securities heldI. 【Matters Regarding Issuer】
Name of issuer

Central Japan Railway Company

Security code

9022

Listed or over-the-counter

ListedListed financial instruments
exchanges

Tokyo/Nagoya/Osaka-2-II. 【Matters Regarding Submitter】
1. 【Submitter (Bulk shareholder) /1】(1) 【Profile of submitter】
a.【Submitter (Bulk shareholder)】Individual or judicial person

Judicial person (Joint stock company)

Name

Central Japan Railway Company

Address or location of head
office1-1-4, Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi

Former name-

Former address or location ofhead office-b.【Individual】
Date of birth-

Occupation-

Name of company-

Address of company-

c.【Judicial person】
Date of Incorporation

April 1, 1987

Name of representative

Masayuki Matsumoto

Title of representative

President and Representative Director

Business purposes

Passenger railway business, etc.

d.【Place to contact】
Place to contact and name of
person in charge

Masashi Kawada
Manager
Stock Section
Administration Department

Telephone number+81-52-564-2620(2) 【Purpose of shareholding】
To enable the implementation of flexible capital policies.

(3) 【Material proposals and other issues】
Not applicable.

-3-(4) 【Breakdown of shares, etc. held by the submitter】
a.【Number of shares, etc. held】
Main Text of Article
Article 27-23,
Article 27-23,
27-23, Paragraph 3 Paragraph 3, Item 1 Paragraph 3, Item 2
Shares / Investment securities, etc.
177,973(shares / units)
Certificates of stock acquisition rights
A- H(shares)
Bonds with stock acquisition rights
B- I(shares)
Covered warrants relating to subjectCJsecurities
Stock depositary receipts
Equity related depositary receipts

DK

Trust beneficiary certificates forsharesTrust beneficiary certificates forequity securities
Bonds redeemable by subjectsecurities

ELFM

GN

Convertible stock
Total (shares / units)
Number of shares, etc. which are to
be deducted since the shares weretransferred through a margintransaction
Number of shares, etc. which are to
be deducted since certain rights withrespect to the shares such as claim fordelivery are granted between joint
holdersO

177,973

PQ

RS

Number of shares, etc. held (Total)(O+P+Q-R-S)

T

Number of latent shares held
(A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J+K+L+
M+N)

U177,973

b.【Percentage of shares, etc. held】
Total number of issued andV
outstanding shares (shares / units)(as of May 11, 2009)
Percentage of shares, etc. held by theabove-stated submitter (%)(T/(U+V)×100)

2,150,000

8.28

Percentage of shares, etc. held stated inpreceding report (%)

11.99-4-(5)【Conditions concerning the acquisition or disposal during the last sixty (60) days of shares, etc.
issued by the issuer】
On/OffAcquisition
Unit priceType of shares,Date
Number
Percentage
market trading or disposal
(JPY)
etc.
May 11,2009

Common stock

90,000

4.19%

Off- markettrading

DisposalCancellation(6)【Material contracts including security agreements concerning shares, etc.】
Not applicable.

(7)【Funds for acquisition of shares, etc. held】
a.【Breakdown of funds for acquisition】(thousands of yen)Amount of own funds (W)44,668,950

Total amount of borrowed funds (X)160,000,000

Total amount of other funds (Y)-Breakdown of (Y)-Total amount of funds for acquisition(W+X+Y)204,668,950

b.【Breakdown of borrowed funds】
Name(Name of branch)
Mizuho Corporate
Bank, Ltd.
The Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Sumitomo Mitsui
Banking Corporation

Type ofBusiness

Name ofRepresentative

Banking

Hiroyasu Sato

Banking

Katsunori
Nagayasu

Banking

Masayuki Oku

c.【Name of Lenders】
Name(Name of branch)

Name of representative

Not applicable.

-5-

Purpose of
Borrowing

Location
Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo
Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo
Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo

Location

Amount(thousandsof yen)

272,000,000

272,000,000

216,000,000