Keikyu Competitors

East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is one of the world’s largest railway companies and a market leader in railway operations and maintenance. Every day, our 44,000 dedicated employees efficiently operate and manage 11,800 trains and our 7,400-kilometer network, including Tokyo metropolitan, high-speed, and regional railways, with cutting-edge technology, serving 16 million passengers. Since our establishment in 1987, following the privatization of Japanese National Railways, we have continuously enhanced our railways to make them safer, more reliable, convenient, and sustainable. The JR East Group is developing various businesses overseas, primarily in Asia, such as supporting the advancement of the Indian High-Speed Railway, providing rolling stock and maintenance services for the MRT Purple Line in Thailand, and providing technical support to a railway operator in Indonesia. By taking advantage of its combined strengths in the mobility and lifestyle solutions fields, the JR East Group will deploy railway infrastructure systems that have high levels of quality and efficiency and provide lifestyle-enriching solutions mainly in Asia but also in other regions.

The Tokyu Corporation (東急株式会社, Tōkyū kabushiki gaisha, a contraction of and formerly Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu kabushiki gaisha (東京急行電鉄株式会社, "Tokyo Express Electric Railway Share Company") until 2 September 2019) is a Japanese multinational keiretsu (conglomerate) holding company headquareted in Shibuya, Tokyo. Its main operation is the Tokyu Railways Company, Ltd.(東急電鉄株式会社, Tōkyū Dentetsu kabushiki gaisha), a wholly owned subsidiary operating railways in the Greater Tokyo Area.

The Hankyu Hanshin Machi Challenge program offers work experience opportunities for elementary school children during summer vacation featuring 45 different lines of work, from train factory tours to hotel chef! Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group who operate the scheme which sets out to challenge kids during the long summer vacation is currently accepting applications for the 2016 edition of the Hankyu Hanshin Yume Machi Challenge Team. Through the scheme, Hankyu Hanshin offers children the opportunity to visit some of the working environments which aren't normally accessible to the public, such as tours of train factories and garages, the chance to cook alongside a hotel chef, TV/radio/film/advertising production and so on, across the many fields in which Hankyu Hanshin currently operate. This offers the children involved the chance to make the most of their summer vacation by learning about and getting experience of the various kinds of jobs that are out there.