JR East’s Shinkansen EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (JR East)
S ： 612 Operating 4,658 Line (mile) JR East’s Business Area C ： 4,046 S ： 35 No. of 1,697 Stations C ： 1,662 Aomori S ： 307 No. of Trains / 12,527 day Higashi-Noshiro Hachinohe C ： 12,220 Odate S ： 11.7 Passenger- 78.5 billion mile (annual) Akita C ： 66.8 JR East’s Business Area Omagari Revenue 17.25 billion S: 4.24 Morioka Hanamaki USD Yokote C: 13.01 Kitakami S ： Shinkansen C ： Conventional Lines Shinjo Ichinoseki (Fiscal year 2003) Niigata Yamagata Takasaki Oyama Ishimaki Sendai Yonezawa Mito Naoetsu Fukushima Nagaoka Aizuwakamatau Koriyama Omiya Toride Ome Nagano Nikko Narita Iwaki Ueno Matsumoto Utsunomiya Chiba Takao Narita Shin-Maebashi Shiojiri Airport Takasaki Oyama Mito Tokyo Kofu Yokohama Omiya Ofuna Shinkansen Hachioji Tokyo Narita Chiba Odawara Choshi Atami Atami Kisarazu Conventional lines Ito Ito Greater Tokyo Area 100 mile
JR East’s Shinkansen Network 369 mile Hachinohe 390 mile Akita Shinkansen Akita Morioka Yamagata Shinkansen 253 mile Shinjo 188 mile Joetsu Shinkansen Yamagata Sendai Tohoku Shinkansen Niigata 204 mile 141 mile Nagano Fukushima Takasaki Nagano Shinkansen Omiya Ueno Tokyo 0 mile The numbers in the figure indicate the distance from Tokyo Station.
JR East’s Shinkansen Trains We have 6 types of Shinkansen trains, such as.... E2 Series E3 Series E4 Series Higher-speed type Through-operation Large volume type transportation type / Provides passengers with better service by / The double-deck trains. / Through-operation on cutting its travel time / Operation of 16-car Shinkansen and / Maximum operating configuration is possible conventional lines speed: 172 mph by coupling two E4 Series / Maximum operating / Low-noise train 8-car configurations. The speed: 172 mph on Seat capacity is 1,634 , Shinkansen, 82 mph the largest in the world. on conventional lines
Coupling and Uncoupling Shinkansen Trains at Morioka Station (Akita Shinkansen) 369 mile 225 mile Sendai Yamagata (Section between Yamagata and Fukushima) / Series E3 type are operated / Maximum Operating Speed: 82 mph Fukushima Coupling & Uncoupling (At Fukushima station) / Passengers do not need to change trains. (Section between Tokyo and Fukushima ） 0 mile / Series E2 and E3 are coupled / Maximum Operating speed: 150 mph Tokyo
Coupling and Uncoupling Shinkansen Trains at a junction station Sacramento San Francisco A junction station Coupling & Uncoupling Los Angeles
Coupling and uncoupling Coupling & Uncoupling for a short time Coupling & Uncoupling system Train stopping time at station Only a train driver and a conductor do at the time of uncoupling 2.5 min. this task at the time of coupling 1.5 min.
Better Performance Allows for Higher Transportation Volume Tokyo – Akita Hachinohe (390 mile) Akita 5 h 06 m Tokyo – Yamagata Morioka (225 mile) -77 min 3 h 23 m 3 h 49 m -53 min Tokyo – Hachinohe Sendai 2 h 30 m Yamagata Niigata (369 mile) 4 h 03 m Nagano Fukushima -67 min Tokyo – Nagano 2 h 56 m Takasaki (141 mile) 3 h 05 m Travel time in 1987 -102 min Tokyo 1 h 23 m Travel time in 2003
Competition with Airlines Trends o of Shares o of JR East and a airlines （ Be Before and after Shinkansen s service started) Shinkansen has an a advantage. 1996 2003 Aomori Akita 46% 48% Tokyo- Aomori 52% 54% ( Tohoku Shinkansen) 2002 2003 Yamagata Tokyo - Akita (Akita Shinkansen) 43% 46% 54% 57% 1991 1991 1991 1991 2003 2003 2003 2003 1% 1% 1% 1% 24% 24% 24% 24% Tokyo JR East 76% 76% 76% 76% 99% 99% 99% 99% Airlines Tokyo - Yamagata (Yamagata Shinkansen)
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