36°42′9.3″N 137°12′47.2″E / 36.702583°N 137.213111°E
Native name | あいの風とやま鉄道 |
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Company type | Third sector |
Genre | Rail transport |
Founded | 24 July 2012 |
Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Toyama Prefecture |
Services | Passenger railway |
Number of employees | 155 (as of January 2015[update]) |
Website | ainokaze |
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]