West Japan Railway
West Japan Passenger Railway Co., Ltd. (Nishinihon Ryokaku Tetsudo Co., Ltd., Nishinihon Passenger Railway Co., Ltd.) is one of JR Group's passenger railway companies that inherited the railway business from Japan National Railway on April 1, 1987. The abbreviation is JR Nishinihon (JR West, Japanese: JR Nishinihon (Jr. Nishinihon)), and when you advertise or advertise to the public, use the abbreviated name as the official name. The Hokuriku region (the northeast of this region is the jurisdiction of the Eastbound Passenger Railway), the Kinki region, and most of the routes in Chugoku and Fukuoka prefecture.