JR East’s Shinkansen
EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (JR East) Operating 4,658 S： 612 Line (mile) JR East’s Business Area C： 4,046 No. of 1,697 S： 35 Stations C： 1,662 Aomori No. of Trains / 12,527 S： 307 day Higashi-Noshiro Hachinohe C： 12,220 Odate Passenger- 78.5 billion S： 11.7 Akita mile (annual) JR East’s Business Area C： 66.8 Omagari Morioka Revenue 17.25 billion S: 4.24 Hanamaki Yokote USD Kitakami C: 13.01 Shinjo S：Shinkansen C：Conventional Lines Ichinoseki (Fiscal year 2003) Niigata Yamagata Takasaki Oyama Ishimaki Sendai Yonezawa Mito Naoetsu Fukushima Nagaoka Aizuwakamatau Koriyama Omiya Ome Toride Nagano Nikko Narita Iwaki Matsumoto Ueno Utsunomiya Takao Chiba Shin-Maebashi Narita Shiojiri Airport Takasaki Oyama Mito Tokyo Kofu Yokohama Omiya Ofuna Shinkansen Hachioji Tokyo Narita Chiba Odawara Choshi Atami Atami Conventional Kisarazu lines Ito Ito 100 mile Greater Tokyo Area 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 Niigata Tohoku Shinkansen 204 mile
141 mile Nagano Fukushima
Takasaki
Nagano Shinkansen Omiya
Ueno
Tokyo The numbers in the figure indicate 0 mile 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
/ Provides passengers type transportation type
with better service by / Through-operation on / The double-deck trains. cutting its travel time Shinkansen and / Operation of 16-car / Maximum operating conventional lines configuration is possible speed: 172 mph / Maximum operating by coupling two E4 Series / Low-noise train speed: 172 mph on 8-car configurations. The Shinkansen, 82 mph Seat capacity is 1,634, on conventional lines the largest in the world. Coupling and Uncoupling Shinkansen Trains at Morioka Station (Akita Shinkansen) 369 mile
225 mile Yamagata Sendai
(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
San Francisco Sacramento
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 Niigata Yamagata (369 mile) 4 h 03 m Nagano Fukushima -67 min Tokyo – Nagano Takasaki 2 h 56 m (141 mile)
3 h 05 m -102 min Travel time in 1987 Tokyo 1 h 23 m Travel time in 2003 Competition with Airlines Trends of Shares of JR East and airlines （Before and after Shinkansen service started) Shinkansen has an advantage.
1996 2003 Aomori
Akita
52% 48% 46% 54% Tokyo- Aomori ( Tohoku Shinkansen) 2002 Yamagata 2003 Tokyo - Akita (Akita Shinkansen) 43% 46% 57% 54%
1991 2003
24% 1% Tokyo JR East 76% 99% Airlines Tokyo - Yamagata (Yamagata Shinkansen)