[TRANSLATION](Securities Identification Code: 9022)
June 4, 2010
To: Shareholders
Yoshiomi Yamada
President and Representative Director
Central Japan Railway Company
1-4, Meieki 1-chome, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya,
Aichi Prefecture
CONVOCATION NOTICE FOR
THE 23RD ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Dear Sirs/Madams:
Notice is hereby given that the 23rd ordinary general meeting of shareholders ofCentral Japan Railway Company (the “Company”) will be held as set forth below. You arecordially invited to attend the meeting.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you are allowed to exercise your voting
rights in writing or electronically (through the Internet, etc.). After examining thereference materials set forth below, please exercise your voting rights no later than 5:30
p.m. on June 21, 2010.
[Exercise of voting rights in writing]
Please indicate your approval or disapproval for each proposal on the voting form
enclosed herewith, affix your seal thereto, and send it back to the Company so that it willreach the Company no later than 5:30 p.m. on June 21, 2010.
[Exercise of voting rights electronically (through the Internet, etc.)]
Please access the website designated by the Company for the exercise of voting rights(http://www.web54.net), and enter your approval or disapproval of each of the proposals
according to the instructions on the screen, using the “voting rights exercise code” and the“password” indicated on the enclosed voting form, no later than 5:30 p.m. on June 21, 2010.
When you exercise your voting rights electronically (through the Internet, etc.), please
read, “A Guide to the Exercise of Voting Rights Electronically (through the Internet, etc.)” onpages 60-61 of the original Japanese document.
Description1.

Date and Time:

June 22, 2010 (Tuesday) at 10:00 a.m.

2.

Venue:

Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel
1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture(Since the venue for the meeting is different from last year’s,please see the map at the end of this notice for this year’s meetingplace.)

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Purpose of the Meeting:
Matters to be Reported:

1.

Report on the details of the business report, and theconsolidated
andnon-consolidated
financialstatements for the 23rd fiscal year (from April 1, 2009to March 31, 2010)

2.

Report on the results of the audit of the consolidated
financial statements by the Accounting Auditors andthe Auditors Board

Matters to be Resolved:

4.
(1)
(2)

Proposal 1:

Appropriation of retained earnings

Proposal 2:

Election of twenty-three (23) Directors

Proposal 3:

Election of one (1) Corporate Auditor

Notes on the Procedures of the Meeting:If you exercise your voting rights more than once electronically (through the Internet,etc.), then the last exercise will be the one deemed valid.
If you exercise your voting rights both in writing and electronically (through theInternet, etc.), then the exercise of those rights electronically (through the Internet, etc)
will be the one deemed valid.
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1.

Upon arrival at the meeting, please submit the enclosed voting form to the receptionist at
the entrance of the meeting place.

2.

In the event circumstances arise to require that changes be made to items in the referencematerials for the ordinary general meeting of shareholders, the business report, thenon-consolidated financial statements, and the consolidated financial statements, theitems changed will be made public on the Company’s homepage(http://www.jr-central.co.jp).

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