East Japan Railway Company

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The Template:Nihongo foot is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as Template:Nihongo foot in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, next to Shinjuku Station.<ref name="corpdata">Template:Cite web</ref> It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is one of three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR Central and JR West

History

JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002.

Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Tōhoku region, and surrounding areas.

JR Group service regions

Lines

Railway lines of JR East primarily serve the Kanto and Tohoku regions, along with adjacent areas in Kōshin'etsu region (Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi) and Shizuoka prefectures.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Shinkansen

JR East operates all of the Shinkansen high-speed rail lines north of Tokyo, with the exception of the Hokkaido Shinkansen which is operated by JR Hokkaido.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Tokyo–Osaka Tōkaidō Shinkansen is owned and operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), although it stops at several JR East stations.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Kanto region

These lines have sections inside the Tokyo suburban area (Template:Langx) designated by JR East. This does not necessarily mean that the lines are fully inside the Greater Tokyo Area.

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Koshinetsu region

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Tohoku region

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Services

Below is the full list of limited express and express train services operated on JR East lines as of 2025.

Shinkansen

Limited express (daytime)

Limited express (overnight)

Stations

Template:Main During fiscal 2017, the busiest stations in the JR East network by average daily passenger count were:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

  1. Shinjuku Station (778,618)
  2. Ikebukuro Station (566,516)
  3. Tokyo Station (452,549)
  4. Yokohama Station (420,192)
  5. Shinagawa Station (378,566)
  6. Shibuya Station (370,669)
  7. Shimbashi Station (277,404)
  8. Omiya Station (255,147)
  9. Akihabara Station (250,251)
  10. Kita-Senju Station (217,838)

Subsidiaries

JR East headquarters (JR東日本本社ビル), located near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo
  • Higashi-Nihon Kiosk - provides newspapers, drinks and other items in station kiosks and operates the Newdays convenience store chain
  • JR Bus Kanto / JR Bus Tohoku - intercity bus operators
  • Nippon Restaurant Enterprise - provides bentō box lunches on trains and in train stations
  • Tokyo Monorail - (70% ownership stake)<ref>HighBeamTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
  • East Japan Marketing & Communications

Sponsorship

Template:Unreferenced section JR East co-sponsors the JEF United Chiba J-League football club Template:Citation needed, which was formed by a merger between the JR East and Furukawa Electric company teams.

Carbon emission plan

JR East aims to reduce its carbon emissions by half, as measured over the period 1990–2030. This would be achieved by increasing the efficiency of trains and company-owned thermal power stations and by developing hybrid trains.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Alleged revolutionary front

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stated that JR East's official union is a front for a revolutionary political organization called the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction). An investigation of this is ongoing.Template:When<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Culture foundation

The East Japan Railway Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization established by JR East for the purpose of developing a "richer railway culture".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation.

Bids outside Japan

JR East held a 15% shareholding in West Midlands Trains with Abellio and Mitsui that commenced operating the West Midlands franchise in England in December 2017.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> JR East sold their stake to Abellio in September 2021.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The same consortium were also listed to be bidding for the South Eastern franchise.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Notes

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