Tokyu Corporation

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Tōkyū Corporation logo on a Tōkyū 8000 series train

Tōkyū 5000 series train

Tōkyū 8000 series train approaching Daikanyama Station.
This color scheme is called Kabuki.

Tōkyū 300 series train on Setagaya Line

The Tokyu Corporation (東京急行電鉄株式会社, Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 9005), also known in Japanese as Tōkyū Dentetsu (東急電鉄^?) for short, is a major private railway operator in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo.

It was formed on September 2 1922 as the Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway (目黒蒲田電鉄, Meguro Kamata Dentetsu^?), and was later known as the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway (東京横浜電鉄, Tōkyō Yokohama Dentetsu^?) before gaining its current name in 1943. From 1944 to 1948, it also owned the companies now known as the Keihin Electric Express Railway, Keio Corporation, and Odakyu Electric Railway. During this time, it was colloquially known as Dai-Tokyu (lit. Great Tokyu).

Tōkyū Lines


Lines	Sections	Length (km)	Stations	Date opened	Max speed
■ Tōyoko Line	Shibuya Station - Yokohama Station	24.2	21	1926	110 km/h
■ Meguro Line	Meguro Station - Hiyoshi Station	11.9	13	1923	110 km/h
■ Den-en-toshi Line	Shibuya Station - Chūō-Rinkan Station	31.5	27	1907	110 km/h
■ Ōimachi Line	Ōimachi Station - Futako-Tamagawa Station	10.4	15	1927	85 km/h
■ Ikegami Line	Gotanda Station - Kamata Station	10.9	15	1922	80 km/h
■ Setagaya Line	Sangen-Jaya Station - Shimo-Takaido Station	5.0	10	1925	40 km/h
■ Tōkyū Tamagawa Line	Kamata Station - Tamagawa Station	5.6	7	2000	80 km/h
Total	7 lines	99.5

Additionally, Tōkyū operates the ■ Kodomonokuni Line (Nagatsuta Station - Kodomonokuni Station, 3.4 km) under contract with and on behalf of Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company.

Other businesses

The Tokyu Group also owns two railroad companies (Ueda Kotsu, Izukyu Railway), several bus companies, a major upscale department store chain called Tokyu in Japan and overseas (such as in MBK Center in Bangkok, Thailand), and Tokyu Hands stores (except for the two locations in Nagoya, which are owned by Sanko Creative Life, Inc., and operated under license). It also runs a number of hotels under the names Tōkyū/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, now merged with the flag carrier JAL Japan), Tōkyū is the largest shareholder of Japan Airlines Holdings (JAL) following JAS's merger with JAL. The Tōkyū Group also owns and operates the upscale Tōkyū Hotels and budget Tōkyū Inns. It also owns the Book Off bookstore chain in Japan.

From 1958 until 2001, Tōkyū also owned the Japanese (now American) Shirokiya department store company. It was the owner of Mago Island until 2005, when Mel Gibson purchased it for US$15 million.