WEST RAILWAY COMPANY CONTENTS CORPORATE OPERATING BUSINESSES DATA OTHER OVERVIEW ENVIRONMENT

Business Development of New Lines (Hokuriku Shinkansen Line)

■ FIVE NEW SHINKANSEN LINES PROPOSED IN 1973 UNDER THE NATIONWIDE SHINKANSEN RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT LAW

Line Lines in Operation Approved Zone for Expense Burden Construction Implementation Plan JR-West JR-East Tsuruga – Morioka−Shin-Aomori Joetsu Tohoku (Morioka−Aomori) (opened in December 2010, 178km) • Central government (existing 125 km Kanazawa – Myoko 169 km − Nagano−Kanazawa (228km) Shinkansen transfer revenues, public Hokuriku (−) utilities expenses) Hokuriku (opened in October 1997, 117km) Kanazawa−Tsuruga (125km) main line Shin-Aomori−Shin-Hakodate (149km) • Local governments (one-half of the Kurobe Hokkaido (Aomori−Sapporo) Unazuki-Onsen Itoigawa Shin-Hakodate−Sapporo (211km) central government) Naoetsu Kanazawa Echigo-Yuzawa (Fukuoka−Kagoshima) Hakata−Kagoshima-Chuo • JR (usage fees with the upper limit to Takaoka Kyushu (opened in March 2011, 289km) Hakusan car Iiyama be determined by the range of maintenance center Nagano (Fukuoka−Nagasaki) (66km) expected benefits) Kyushu Takeo-Onsen−Nagasaki Hokuriku Shinkansen Joetsu Joetsu Shinkansen Shin-Takaoka Myoko

Fukui Hakusan car maintenance Takasaki PLANNING OF NEW SHINKANSEN LINES (As of March 31, 2013) center – Nagano ■ (scheduled to be completed by end of FY2015) Tsuruga Omiya In Operation Shin-Otaru Tokyo Planned New Shinkansen Line (Under construction) Sapporo Kanazawa−Tokyo Planned New Shinkansen Line (To be determined) 454 km Maibara Oshamanbe Tsuruga – Hakusan car maintenance center Shin-Osaka Shin-Hakodate (scheduled to be completed by end of FY2026)

Shin-Aomori Hachinohe Akita JR-West JR-West Morioka

Shinjo Kanazawa Niigata Shin- Yamagata Travel Time Hakusan car Toyama Sendai Shimonoseki maintenance JR center *3 *4 Hakata Hiroshima Joetsu Myoko Fukushima Airlines JR market share Takeo-Onsen Present*1 After starting operations*2 Okayama Nagano Isahaya Shin-Tosu Tsuruga Kanazawa — Takasaki Kanto region About 3h 50m About 2h 40m About 2h 50m 38.8% Nagasaki Nagoya Kumamoto Shin-Osaka Omiya Toyama — Shin-Yatsushiro Tokyo Hokuriku Shinkansen Kanto region About 3h 10m About 2h 20m About 2h 30m 59.7% ① Nagano–Hakusan Car Maintenance Center*1 Scheduled to be completed by end of Notes Kagoshima- 1. Using the Joetsu Shinkansen and limited express train Chuo FY2015. Hakusan Car Maintenance Center–Tsuruga 2. Average speed of 190km/h ② 3. Includes airport access and egress time Scheduled to be completed by end of *1 Hakusan car maintenance center is planned to be located from to the west about 4. Sourse: Statistical survey of Ministry of Land, Intrastmcture and Transport (FY2012/3) 12 kilometers. FY2026. *2 FY2015, etc., refer to the fiscal years ending March 2015, etc.

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