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The Tōkaidō Main Line shown in orange in this map of the southern approaches to Tokyo Tōkaidō Main Line (JR East) service pattern diagram. The section between Tokyo and Atami is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and it is located in the Greater Tokyo Area.
Most lines in Tokyo are privately owned, funded, and operated, though some, like the Toei Subway and the Tokyo Metro, are supported by the Government either directly or indirectly. Each of the region's rail companies tends to display only its own maps, with key transfer points highlighted, ignoring the rest of the metro area's network.
Gotanda Station (Japanese: 五反田駅, Japanese pronunciation: [Gotanda-eki]) is a railway station in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation, and the Tokyo subway operator Toei.
The East Japan Railway Company [10] is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST [11] or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon) in Japanese.
Map of the Keiyō Line and surrounding JR lines Keiyō Line "Local" (各駅停車 kakueki-teisha)trains stop at all stations between Tokyo and Soga except Nishi-Funabashi. Musashino Line ''Local'' through trains stop at all stations between Tokyo and Nishi-Funabashi before continuing to the Musashino Line. Some trains originate at ...
For its services in the Greater Tokyo Area, JR East defines the Tokyo Suburban Area(Japanese: 東京近郊区間) for fare calculation purposes, roughly correlating with the Suica coverage area (as of 2012.03.17).
As a result, the entire service between Ōmiya and Ōfuna is typically referred to as the Keihin-Tōhoku–Negishi Line (Japanese: 京浜東北・根岸線) on system maps and in-train station guides. Keihin–Tōhoku–Negishi Line trains are recognizable by their light blue stripe (the line's color on maps is also light blue).
Tokyo's mainline railway network in 1904, a decade before the opening of Tokyo Station; the station was constructed as an integrated terminus for these lines. In 1889, a Tokyo municipal committee drew up plans for an elevated railway line connecting the Tōkaidō Main Line terminal at Shinbashi to the Nippon Railway (now Tōhoku Main Line ...