[Translation]【Cover】【Filing document】

Change of Status Report No.2

【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】

Yoshiomi Yamada,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 7, 2012

【Filing date】

May 11, 2012

【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, and OsakaII. 【Matters Regarding Submitter】
1. 【Submitter (bulk shareholder) /1】(1) 【Profile of Submitter】
a.【Submitter (bulk shareholder)】Individual or juridical person

Juridical 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.【Juridical person】
Date of Incorporation

April 1, 1987

Name of representative

Yoshiomi Yamada

Title of representative

President and Representative Director

Business purposes

Passenger railway business, etc.

d.【Place to contact】
Place to contact and name ofperson in charge

Ataru KimuraManager
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.

(4) 【Breakdown of shares, etc. held by the submitter】
a.【Number of shares, etc. held】
Article 27-23,Article 27-23,
Main Text of Article
Paragraph (3), Item Paragraph (3), Item
27-23, Paragraph (3)(i)(ii)
Shares / Investment securities, etc.
(shares / units)
Certificates of stock acquisition rights(shares)
Bonds with stock acquisition rights(shares)
Covered warrants relating to subjectsecurities

89,990A- HB- ICJEquity related depositary receipts

DK

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

EL

FM

Convertible stockGN

Stock depositary receipts

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
holders

O89,990

PQRS

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)

Ub.【Percentage of shares, etc. held】
Total number of issued shares (shares /units)V(as of May 7, 2012)

89,9902,060,000

Percentage of shares, etc. held by theabove-stated submitter (%)(T/(U+V)×100)

4.37

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

8.28

(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,
NumberPercentage
Datemarket trading or disposal(JPY)etc.
Off-market
May 7,
Disposal
Retirement
Common stock
90,0004.37%
trading2012(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)-Total amount of borrowed funds (X)102,201,355

Total amount of other funds (Y)-Breakdown of (Y)-Total amount of funds for acquisition(W+X+Y)

102,201,355

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

Yasuhiro Sato

BankingNobuyuki
HiranoBanking

Takeshi Kunibec.【Name of lenders】
Name(Name of Branch)
Not applicable.

Purpose ofBorrowing

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

Name of Representative

Location

Amount(thousandsof yen)

245,990,610

245,990,610

2

10,220,135