Kantō Railway
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Parent | Keisei Electric Railway,Tōbu Railway,Ibaraki Kōtsū |
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Founded | 3 September 1922 |
Headquarters | 1-10-8 Manabe, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan |
Service area | Chiba, Ibaraki |
Service type | Bus and Train |
Fleet | 62 trains and 414 buses |
Chief executive | 松上 英一郎 |
Website | Kanto Railway(in Japanese) |
Kantō Railway (関東鉄道, Kantō Tetsudō) is a private railway company, which operates two unconnected lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway and so on. Besides, the company has bus department in Ibaraki Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture in Japan.
Trains
The company operates the following two lines:
Buses
The company operates the following four bus companies
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- Kanto Railway
- Kantetsu Green Bus
- Kantetsu Purple Bus
- Kantetsu Kankō Bus
Outline
Kanto Railway is also bus company which runs areas in South and Center area of Ibaraki and East area of Chiba, and the bus department occupies 70 percent of benefits on Kanto Railway. The company has ten offices and service distance is 2,788.8 km.
The department used to have vast bus routes, the department have gave subsidiary bus routes, and the company abolished the bus routes which was the red. At present, the company have revived abolished routes as community buses that are run by subsidiary(Kantetsu Green Bus and Kantetsu Purple Bus and Kantetsu Kankō Bus)in areas of Sakuragawa, Chikusei and so on.
Areas that the company run have many tourist resources(Mount Tsukuba, Lake Kasumigaura, Kairakuen and so on)and many commercial facilities(Ami Premium Outlet, AeonMall Tsukuba and so on)and bed suburb of Tokyo(Tsukuba).
Besides, When events are held in Ibaraki, the company runs extra buses for Ibaraki Airport and Kashima Soccer Stadium and so on.
In Mito Station (Ibaraki) and Tsuchiura Station, Toride Station, Moriya Station,Tsukuba Station, Suigō-Itako Bus Terminal and so on, shops for selling tickets are installed. Moreover,In Sanuki Station and University of Tsukuba and Tsukuba Center, ticket machines are installed.
Rolling stock
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2300 series DMU
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KiHa 350 DMU
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KiHa 350 DMU
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KiHa 300 DMU
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Ryūgasaki Line KiHa 530 DMU
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Diesel locomotive DD502