Ainokaze Toyama Railway

36°42′9.3″N 137°12′47.2″E / 36.702583°N 137.213111°E / 36.702583; 137.213111

Ainokaze Toyama Railway
Native name
あいの風とやま鉄道
Company typeThird sector
GenreRail transport
Founded24 July 2012
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Toyama Prefecture
ServicesPassenger railway
Number of employees
155 (as of January 2015)
Websiteainokaze.co.jp

The Ainokaze Toyama Railway (あいの風とやま鉄道株式会社, Ainokaze Toyama Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in March 2015, coinciding with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa. The company was founded on 24 July 2012, and has its headquarters in Toyama in Toyama Prefecture.[1]

  1. ^ "Toyama-railway.jp" 会社概要 [Company overview] (in Japanese). Japan: Ainokaze Toyama Railway. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2014.