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is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven JR companies. It is often known as . HISTORY and the Tohoku Region ]] JR East was incorporated on April 1 , 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways . Although this was a nominal "privatization," the company was actually a wholly-owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002 . Following the JNR breakup, JR East assumed responsibility for passenger operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area , the Tohoku Region and surrounding areas. LINES Its railway lines serve Kanto and Tohoku regions primarily, along with adjacent parts of Niigata , Nagano , Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures . Shinkansen JR East operates all of the Shinkansen (high speed rail lines) north of Tokyo .
Note that the Tokyo-Osaka Tokaido Shinkansen is owned and operated by the Central Japan Railway Company , although it stops at several JR East stations. Greater Tokyo Area lines ]]
Tokai and Koshinetsu regional lines
Tohoku regional lines
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