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The Japan Rail Pass (ジャパンレールパス, japan rēru pasu), also called the JR Pass, is a rail pass sold by the Japan Railways Group exclusively for overseas visitors. It is valid for travel on all major forms of transportation provided by the JR Group in Japan , with a few exceptions.
The Nagoya City Transportation Bureau (名古屋市交通局, Nagoya-shi Kōtsūkyoku) is a municipal government agency responsible for public transport in Nagoya, Japan. The organization operates subways and buses. It was founded in 1922, as an operator of Nagoya City Tram bought from Nagoya Electric Railroad, the current Nagoya Railroad.
The passenger rail network in Greater Nagoya is fairly dense with 3 million passengers daily (1.095 billion annually). [1] Passenger railway usage and density is lower than that of Greater Tokyo or Greater Osaka, as generally the trend in Japan, few free maps exist of the entire network, operators show only the stations of their respective company and key transfer points.
The name comes from the Japanese word mannaka (真ん中), meaning "center", because Nagoya is roughly in the center of Japan, and because it claims to be a central part of riders' lifestyles. [4] The card is administered by both the Nagoya City Transportation Bureau Development Organization and MIC (a subsidiary of Meitetsu ); while MIC ...
The Central Japan Railway Company [6] is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and occasionally as JR Tokai (Japanese: JR東海). [7] The term Tōkai refers to the southern portion of Central Japan, the geographical region in which the company chiefly ...
Nagoya Station (名古屋駅, Nagoya-eki) is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is Japan's, and one of the world's largest train stations by floor area (410,000 m 2 ), [ 1 ] and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central).
The Aonami Line (あおなみ線, Aonami-sen) is a third-sector commuter railway line in the city of Nagoya operated by the Nagoya Rinkai Rapid Transit (名古屋臨海高速鉄道, Nagoya Rinkai Kōsoku Tetsudō).
Like JR East's Suica or JR West's ICOCA, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony known as FeliCa. [3] [4] First-generation TOICA card. As of December 2007, a year after launch, 350,000 cards had been issued, and 50% of riders (and 70% of commuter pass holders) in the Nagoya area used the card. [5] By Spring 2023, 3.27 million cards had ...