JR Bus Kanto buses parked at Tokyo Station

JR Bus collectively refers to the

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

operations of

Japan Railways Group The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the or simply JR, consists of seven for-profit stock companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Most ...

(JR Group) companies in Japan. JR Bus is operated by eight regional companies, each owned by a JR railway company. JR Bus companies provide regional, long distance, and chartered bus services.

List of companies

History

The Ministry of Railways of Japan started its first bus operation in Aichi Prefecture in 1930 and gradually expanded bus routes. The

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR), public corporation established in 1949, succeeded the bus operations, then called ''Kokutetsu Bus'' or JNR Bus. In 1987, JNR was divided into regional railway companies together with its bus operations. JR companies later separated their bus operations to subsidiaries in 1988 (JR East, JR Central, JR West), 2000 (JR Hokkaido), 2001 (JR Kyushu) and 2004 (JR Shikoku).

Examples of vehicles

Regional route vehicles

File:521-4956-JHB.jpg, JR Hokkaidō bus 521-4956 File:531-9452 Tohoku KC-LV380N.jpg, JR Bus Tohoku 531-9452 File:JR-Bus-Kanto MITSUBISHI-1160.jpg, JR Bus Kanto L534-97506 File:328-8902 JRTB KC-RM211GAN.jpg, JR Tokai Bus 328-8902 File:Wjrbus-jakukoline-20070309.jpg, Nishinihon JR Bus 537-1909 File:Chugoku JR Bus - 534-5969.JPG, Chugoku JR Bus 534-5969 File:531-2911 Shikoku U-LV218K.jpg, JR Shikoku Bus 531-2911 File:JR-Bus-Kyusyu ISUZU-1102.jpg, JR Kyushu Bus 521-21602

Expressway route vehicles

JR Bus Tohoku, JR Bus Kanto, JR Tokai Bus and Chugoku JR Bus share a common livery based on the JNR Bus livery. File:JR Hokkaidō bus S200F 2101.JPG, JR Hokkaido Bus 644-5822 File:JRbus H654-02406.JPG, JR Bus Tohoku H654-02406 File:JR-bus-kanto-H654-07417.JPG, JR Bus Kanto H654-07417 File:JRbus 747-05952.JPG, JR Tokai Bus 747-05952 File:Nishinihon-JR-bus-749-8913.jpg, Nishinihon JR Bus 749-8913 File:Chugoku JR Bus - 641-5906.JPG, Chugoku JR Bus 641-5906 File:694-8950 Shikoku BKG-MU66JS front.jpg, JR Shikoku Bus 694-8950 File:JR Kyushubus - Kagoshima 230 a 8658 - 01.JPG, JR Kyushu Bus 748-06558

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20151203224900/http://www.kakuyasubus.jp/ (jointly operated by JR Bus companies for promotion of intercity buses) {{JR Bus companies of Japan Japan Railway companies