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3 unusual facts about Tokyu


Tokyu

Tokyu Group, a group of companies centered around Tokyu Corporation

Tokyu Hands Creative Life Store, a member of the Tokyu Group (see Tokyu Group for more subsidiaries)

Tokyu Corporation, a Japanese railway company, the largest member of the group


253 series

The two newest-built sets, Ne201 and Ne202, underwent extensive refurbishment at JR East's Omiya Works and Tokyu Car Corporation's Yokohama factory to become 253-1000 series sets OM-N1 and OM-N2 for use on Nikkō and Kinugawa limited express services jointly operated with Tobu Railway from 4 June 2011, replacing the 485 series and 189 series EMUs currently used.

Izukyū Corporation

The Tokyu Corporation began preliminary work on a train line connecting Itō Station, the terminal station of the Japan National Railway’s Itō Line, with Shimoda, at the southern tip of the Izu Peninsula in 1956.

Private railway

Among private railways in Japan, 15 companies are categorized as "major", such as Odakyu, Keikyu, Meitetsu, Tokyu.

Shirokiya

Led by Senator Daniel Inouye, a petition signed by 30,000 residents of Hawaii and Japan was sent to Tokyu, in the hopes that Tokyu would find a fitting end to the "Shirokiya crisis".

Tamagawa Line

Tōkyū Tamagawa Line (tramway) formerly operated by Tokyu Corporation, a surviving branch of which is the Tōkyū Setagaya Line


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