Central Japan Railway Company

The Central Japan Railway Company, known as JR Central, is the main railway company of the Chubu or Nagoya region of central Japan, with its operational hub at Nagoya Station and its administrative headquarters in the JR Central Towers above it. Its busiest and longest conventional line is the Tokaido Main Line between Atami and Maibara, which runs alongside its high-speed Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka. The company is also responsible for the Chuo Shinkansen, a maglev line under construction between Tokyo and Osaka. JR Central carried 138 million high-speed rail passengers in 2009, and it is listed on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges and is one of three Japan Railways Group members in the Nikkei 225 index.