Echigo Tokimeki Railway

Echigo TOKImeki Railway Company
Native name
えちごトキめき鉄道株式会社
Echigo TOKImeki Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha
Company typePrivate KK
GenreRail transport
Founded22 November 2010
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Niigata Prefecture
Key people
Tadahiro Shimazu (President)
ServicesPassenger railway
Websitewww.echigo-tokimeki.co.jp

The Echigo TOKImeki Railway Company (えちごトキめき鉄道株式会社, Echigo TOKImeki Tetsudō kabushiki-gaisha) (ETR) is a Japanese third-sector railway operator. It was established in 2010 to operate passenger railway services on the sections of the JR East Shinetsu Main Line and JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Niigata Prefecture when they were separated from the respective JR Group operators in March 2015, coinciding with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa. The main shareholders of the company are Niigata Prefecture, the City of Joetsu, the City of Itoigawa, and the City of Myoko.[1]

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