is a private railway company, which operates two lines in

Ibaraki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...

in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of

Keisei Electric Railway The (stylized as K'SEI since 2001) is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name ''Keisei'' is the combination of the kanji 京 from and 成 from , which the railway's main line connects. The combination uses diffe ...

and other companies. Additionally, the company has a bus department in

and

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in Japan.

Overview

This company was established as Joso Railway in 1913. In 1945, Joso Railway was merged into Joso-Tsukuba Railway with Tsukuba Railway. Joso-Tsukuba Railway was split into Kanto Railway in 1965, which merged with Ryugasaki Railway. Around 1980, Tsukuba Railway (which would be suspended) and Kashima Railway (which would be replaced by the Keisei affiliated company Kashitetsu Bus) were split from Kanto Railway.

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and Mount Tsukuba Ropeway were transferred to Keisei Electric Railway. Kanto Railway has had a 0.01% investment in

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company The is a third-sector railway operating company in Japan. It was established on 15 March 1991 to construct the 58.3 km Tsukuba Express (then known as the ''Jōban Shinsen'') commuter railway line from in Tokyo to in Ibaraki Prefecture ...

since 2001.

Trains

The company operates the following two lines: *

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* Ryūgasaki Line

Buses

The company manages the following four bus companies: Joban Highway Bus Mito Iwaki

* Kanto Railway *

Kantetsu Green Bus The is a bus company within the Kanto Railway, and also belongs to Keisei Group. This company was established on 15 March 2002 to inherit the partly business of the Kanto Railway's bus department. Overview As part of the business efficiency, H ...

* Kantetsu Purple Bus * Kantetsu Kankō Bus

Outline

Kanto Railway is also a bus company with coverage in the south and central Ibaraki and east

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. The bus department occupies 70% of benefit of the Kanto Railway. The company has ten offices and the service distance is 2,788.8 km. The bus department used to have vast bus routes, but some were discontinued after proving unprofitable. Currently, certain discontinued bus routes have been revived as community buses operated by subsidiary bus companies (

, Kantetsu Purple Bus and Kantetsu Kankō Bus) in areas of Sakuragawa, Chikusei and more places. The company has coverage of many attractions (

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Kairakuen is a Japanese garden located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Along with Kenroku-en and Koraku-en, it is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. Overview Kairaku-en was built in the year 1842 by Tokugawa Nariaki, ''daimyō'' o ...

and so on), commercial facilities (Ami Premium Outlet, AeonMall Tsukuba and more), and a bed suburb of Tokyo (

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). When many events are happening in Ibaraki, the company operates extra bus routes to

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, Kashima Soccer Stadium and more. Tickets can be purchased in stores at

Mito Station (Ibaraki) is a joint-use passenger railway station in the city of Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the third sector Kashima Rinkai Railway. The station premises are managed by JR East. Lines Mito Station is ...

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, Moriya Station,

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Suigō-Itako Bus Terminal The is a bus terminal situated in Itako, Ibaraki, Japan. It is used by the Kantō Railway, Keisei Bus and JR Bus Kantō, among others. Overview The bus terminal is located near the Itako interchange on the Higashi-Kantō Expressway. The termi ...

and more. Furthermore, there are ticket machines at the

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and Tsukuba Center.

Bus routes

Highway buses

*TSUKUBA **

Tokyo Station Tokyo Station ( ja, 東京駅, ) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Imperial Palace grounds. The newer Eastern extension is ...

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- Tsukuba Center *TM Liner ** Tsukuba Center -

*MITO **

*KASHIMA **

Tokyo Disney Resort The (local nickname ''TDR'') is a theme park and vacation resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just east of Tokyo. The resort is fully owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company under a licence from The Walt Disney Company, who constru ...

- Kashima-Jingu Station *Night bus **

and

Kyoto Station Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city ...

and

Namba Station is a name shared by two railway stations in the Namba district of Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. One is owned by Nankai Electric Railway, while the other is by the Osaka Metro. The names of both stations are written in ''hiragana'' on signage within t ...

Rolling stock

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References

External links

Official website
Kantō Railway Bus companies of Japan Transport in Ibaraki Prefecture Transport in Chiba Prefecture Japanese companies established in 1922 {{Japan-rail-company-stub