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. While a

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, its main operation is , a wholly-owned

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operating railways in the

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History

The oldest predecessor of company was the , opened in 1908. The railway's operations were converted into a

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(company) in 1910. Keita Gotō, now a notable Japanese industrialist, was appointed as the CEO in 1920 and he began a major expansion program. The most important predecessor was first registered on September 2, 1922, as the and is related to the construction of Den-en-chōfu. It was originally founded by the developers of Den-en-chōfu). It was acquired by the Musashi Electric Railway in 1924, shortly before Musashi was renamed into the , also known as the Toyoko, in the same year. After Musashi/Toyoko's acquisition, the Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway initially operated as a subsidiary of Toyoko. It was not until 16 October 1939 that both Toyoko and Meguro-Kamata Electric railways were formally merged and the new company took the Toyoko name. In 1938, Toyoko established Toyoko Eiga , possibly for competition with Ichizo Kobayashi's Toho Company. It became the

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in 1951. Toyoko took its current name on 1 May 1942, after the Japanese government compelled the company to acquire the Odawara Express Railway and the Keihin Electric Railway in 1943 to support Japan's efforts in

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. In 1944 it also acquired the Keio Teito Electric Railway (which had merged with Odawara Express before in 1940). In 1948, after the war, Tokyu divested the acquired companies, and the divested companies are now known as Odakyu Electric Railway, Keikyu Corporation, and

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respectively. The 1943–48 era of Tokyu was colloquially known as ''Dai-Tokyu'' (lit. ''Great Tokyu'').

Tokyu lines

Tokyu also operates the Kodomonokuni Line ( Nagatsuta Station – Kodomonokuni Station, 3.4 km) under contract with and on behalf of Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company. Tokyu Railways topological diagram

Related businesses

The Tokyu Group also owns two smaller railroad companies, Ueda Kōtsū and Izukyū Corporation; several bus companies; and a major upscale department store chain, the Tokyu Department Store operating in Japan and the MBK Center in

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, Thailand. It also runs a number of hotels under the names Tokyu/Pan Pacific in Japan and formerly owned the Pan Pacific Hotels abroad, which it sold to UOL Limited of Singapore. Formerly the owner of Japan Air System (JAS), Tokyu used to be the largest shareholder of Japan Airlines Holdings (JAL) following JAS's merger with JAL. The Tokyu Group also owns and operates the upscale Tokyu Hotels and budget Tokyu Inns. From 1958 until 2001, Tokyu also owned the Japanese (now American) Shirokiya department store company. It was the owner of Mago Island until 2005, when

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purchased it for US$15 million. Tokyu Corporation is also the largest single shareholder in the Shizuoka Railway Company, but its holdings in the railway are not part of the group.

Rolling stock

* Tokyu 9000 series (since 1986) * Tokyu 1000 series (since 1988) * Tokyu 2000 series (since 1992) * Tokyu 300 series (Setagaya Line, since 1999) * Tokyu 3000 series (since 1999) *

Tokyu 5000 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation since 2002 on many of its commuter lines in the Tokyo area of Japan. Design First introduced in 2002, the design is based on the JR Ea ...

(since 2002) * Tokyu 6000 series (since 2007) * Tokyu 7000 series (since 2007) *

Tokyu 2020 series The is an electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter train type built by Japan Transport Engineering Company, J-TREC and used by the Japanese private railway operator Tokyu Corporation in the Tokyo area since March 2018. The 2020 series is used pri ...

(since early 2018) * Tokyu 6020 series (since early 2018) * Tokyu 3020 series (since mid-2019) New

ten-car EMUs and Tokyu 6020 series seven-car EMUs have entered service since early 2018.

Gallery

File:Tokyu-EC300-3.jpg, Tokyu 300 series File:Tokyu1000 8cars.jpg, Tokyu 1000 series File:東急電鉄2000系電車.jpg, Tokyu 2000 series File:東急電鉄3000系.jpg, Tokyu 3000 series File:Tokyu-Series5000-5116F.jpg, Tokyu 5000 series File:Tokyu6000(2).jpg, Tokyu 6000 series File:東急8590系.jpg, Tokyu 8090 series File:Tokyu8500series 8606F.jpg, Tokyu 8500 series File:Tokyu-9000-for-Oimachi-line.jpg, Tokyu 9000 series File:東急田園都市線2020系.jpg, Tokyu 2020 series File:東急6020系.jpg, Tokyu 6020 series File:Tokyu-Series3020-3821.jpg, Tokyu 3020 series

References

External links

Official website
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