The is the main railway company operating in the
Chūbu (
Nagoya) region of central
Japan. It is often referred to in English
JR Central and in Japanese as .
The company's operational hub is Nagoya Station. The busiest railway line it operates is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami Station and Maibara Station. JR Central also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo Station and Shin-Ōsaka Station. Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen—a proposed Maglev service between Tokyo Station (or Shinagawa Station) and Ōsaka Station (or Shin-Ōsaka Station), of which a short demonstration section has been built.
Lines
Shinkansen
Conventional lines
- Tōkaidō Main Line: Atami Station—Maibara Station, 341.3 km
- Gotemba Line: Kōzu Station—Numazu Station, 60.2 km
- Minobu Line: Fuji Station—Kōfu Station, 88.4 km
- Iida Line: Toyohashi Station—Tatsuno Station, 195.7 km
- Taketoyo Line: Ōbu Station—Taketoyo Station, 19.3 km
- Takayama Main Line: Gifu Station—Inotani Station, 189.2 km
- Chūō Main Line: Shiojiri Station—Nagoya Station, 174.8 km
- Taita Line: Tajimi Station—Mino-Ōta Station, 17.8 km
- Jōhoku Line: Kachigawa Station—Biwajima Station, 11.2 km (trains are operated Tōkai Transport Service, not JR Central)
- Kansai Main Line: Nagoya Station—Kameyama Station, 59.9 km
- Kisei Main Line: Kameyama Station—Shingū Station, 180.2 km
- Meishō Line: Matsusaka Station—Ise-Okitsu Station, 43.5 km
- Sangū Line: Taki Station—Toba Station, 29.1 km
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