East Japan Railway Company

The **East Japan Railway Company **() or the **JR East** is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the biggest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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## Infobox (company)

- **name**: East Japan Railway Company
- **native name**: 東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
- **native name lang**: ja
- **romanized name**: Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha
lit. "East Japan Passenger Railway Share Company"
- **image**: JR-East-HQ-Building-01.jpg
- **image size**: 300
- **image caption**: The company headquarters in Shinjuku, Tokyo
- **logo**:
- **type**: Public company, Public kabushiki kaisha, KK
- **predecessor**: Japanese National Railways (JNR)
- **foundation**: 1 April 1987 (privatization of JNR)
- **location city**: 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo
- **location country**: Japan
- **area served**: Kanto region, Kanto and Tōhoku regions
Niigata Prefecture, Niigata, Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka prefectures
- **key people**: Tetsuro Tomita
Masaki Ogata
Yuji Fukasawa <small>(CEO, President, Representative Director)</small>
- **industry**: Rail transport
- **products**: Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
- **services**: Passenger railways
freight services
bus transportation
other related services
- **owner**: Japan Trustee Services Bank, JTSB investment trusts (8.21%)
Mizuho Bank (4.07%)
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, TMTBJ investment trusts (3.97%)
MUFG Bank (2.75%)
Share repurchase, Repurchased shares (2.67%)
(as of 30 September 2018)
- **num employees**: 73,017 (as of 31 March 2013)
- **divisions**: Railway operations
Life-style business
IT & Suica business
- **subsid**: 83 companies,
including Tokyo Monorail and Japan Transport Engineering Company, J-TREC


## Infobox (rail network)

- **name**: East Japan Railway Company
- **color**: 008000
- **image**: JR_East_Shinkansen_lineup_at_Niigata_Depot_200910.jpg
- **caption**: Line up of JR East Shinkansen trains, October 2009
- **nationalrailway**: Japan Railways Group
- **infrastructure**: Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
- **ridership**: 6.169 billion per year
- **passkm**: 130.5 billion per year
- **doublelength**: (49%)
- **ellength**: (73.2%)
- **hslength**: (14.0%)
- **el**: 1,500 V DC overhead catenary
- **el1**: 20 kV AC, 50 Hz
- **el1length**:
Conventional lines in Tohoku
Joban Line (Fujishiro Station, Fujishiro-Iwanuma Station, Iwanuma)
Mito Line
- **el2**: 25 kV AC, 25 kV AC, 50/60 Hz overhead
- **el2length**:
Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Hokuriku Shinkansen (50/60 Hz)
- **notunnels**: 1,263
- **longesttunnel**: The Seikan Tunnel
Hokkaido Shinkansen
- **nobridges**: 14,865
- **longestbridge**: No.1 Kitakami River Bridge
Tohoku Shinkansen
- **nostations**: 1,703
- **map**: [https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/shinkansen.html Shinkansen lines]
[https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/conventional_line.html Conventional lines]
[https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/info/map_a4ol.pdf Greater Tokyo Area Network Map]
[https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/pdf/RouteMap_majorrailsub.pdf Suica and PASMO Network Map]