East Japan Railway Company
Categories: Companies traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange | Railway companies of Japan | Japanese regional rail systems
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Yamanote Line, Tokyo
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JR Yamanote Line train in Tokyo, Japan
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Above Yurakucho in Tokyo
East Japan Railway Company (東日本旅客鉄道 Higashi-Nihon Ryokyaku Tetsudo or JR東日本; JR Higashi-Nihon) (TYO: 9020) is a Japanese private railroad company, the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven JR companies. JR East (JR東 JR Higashi) is a contraction often used in literatures.
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Lines
Its railway lines serve Kanto and Tohoku regions primarily, along with adjacent parts of Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures.
- Shinkansen: Tohoku Shinkansen, Akita Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen, Nagano Shinkansen, Yamagata Shinkansen
- Tokyo: Yamanote Line, Chuo Main Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Yokohama Line, Negishi Line, Nambu Line, Musashino Line, Akabane Line (Saikyo Line), Hachiko Line, Ome Line, Itsukaichi Line, Sobu Main Line, Keiyo Line
- Kanto: Tokaido Main Line, Yokosuka Line, (Shonan Shinjuku Line), Tsurumi Line, Sagami Line, Takasaki Line, Joetsu Line, Agatsuma Line, Ryomo Line, Nikko Line, Karasuyama Line, Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), Kawagoe Line, Mito Line, Joban Line, Uchibo Line, Sotobo Line, Narita Line, Kashima Line, Kururi Line, Togane Line
- Chubu-Hokuriku: Shinetsu Main Line, Koumi Line, Iiyama Line, Echigo Line, Yahiko Line, Hakushin Line, Shinonoi Line, Ooito Line
- Tohoku: Tohoku Main Line, Ban'etsu-sai Line, Tadami Line, Ban'etsu-tō Line, Jōban Line, Suigun Line, Senzan Line, Senseki Line, Ishinomaki Line, Kesennuma Line, Ōfunato Line, East Riku'u Line, West Riku'u Line, Kitakami Line, Kamaishi Line, Yamada Line, Iwaizumi Line, Hanawa Line, Hachinohe Line, Ōminato Line, Tsugaru Line (Tsugaru Kaikyo Line), Ōu Main Line, Yonesaka Line, Aterazawa Line, Tazawako Line, Uetsu Main Line, Oga Line, Gonō Line
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