page_title: Keio Corporation
section_title: Priority seats
hierarchical_section_title: Keio Corporation / History / Priority seats
caption_attribution_description: "Sticker seal" put on train window, "Priority_Seat" sign in the keio line train (Japan).jpg
context_page_description: Keio Corporation is a private railway operator in Tokyo, Japan, and the central firm of the Keio Group that is involved in transport, retail, real estate and other industries.
  The name "Keio" is derived from taking one character each from the places through which the railway runs: "Tōkyō" and "Hachiōji". The Keio railway network connects the western suburbs of Tokyo and Sagamihara in Kanagawa with central Tokyo at Shinjuku Station.
context_section_description: Keiō was among the first railway companies to introduce priority seats on its trains. Priority seats are those reserved for the physically handicapped, elderly, pregnant women, and people with infants. These special seats, which were initially called "Silver seats" but renamed in 1993, were inaugurated on Respect for the Aged Day on September 15, 1973.
caption: "Priority Seat" sign
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