Kantō Railway

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.

Kanto Railway Co., Ltd.
Head office
ParentKeisei Electric Railway,Tōbu Railway,Ibaraki Kōtsū
Founded3 September 1922
Headquarters1-10-8 Manabe, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan
Service areaChiba, Ibaraki
Service typeBus and Train
Fleet62 trains and 414 buses
Chief executive松上 英一郎
WebsiteKanto Railway(in Japanese)

Trains

The company operates the following two lines:

Buses

The company operates the following four bus companies

Highway buses and leftside is Kanto Railway Bus(Isuzu Super Cruiser)

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.

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