Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation

The Office of Tokyo Prefecture (东京 都 交通局Japanese, Tōkyō-to Kotsu - kyoku ), headquartered in Shinjuku manages public transport in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo. Among other things, it is one of two subway operators in Tokyo. These subways are called Toei lines (都 営, toei means " run by the prefecture "). The other metro company is the Tokyo Metro.

The tourist office also operates the tram deaths Arakawa Line, the monorail monorail Ueno Zoo, the Toei bus lines, the Nippori - Toneri Liner and hydroelectric power plants. From 1952 to 1968, she also conducted with the Toei also trolleybus trolleybuses, up to the extensive abolition in the 1960s and 1970s, the total deaths tram network, whose only remaining residue is the Arakawa- line since 1972.

Organizationally, it is part of the prefecture administration Tokyo - as opposed to establishments which a department of administration under the direct, as one of three public companies independently. The legal basis is the Chiho - KOEI Kígyó - hō (地方 公 営 企业 法, such as " Law on Regional Public Company" ), the public enterprises of the local authorities ( prefectures or municipalities) regulated. In many other prefectures public, ie carried by state or local transport are usually operated by the communities in the strict sense, in the prefecture of Nagasaki also operates an office of the Prefecture Administration bus lines.

In fiscal and fiscal year 2012 sales totaled approximately 184 billion yen, of which about 133 billion in the metro and 36 billion in the buses. The number of passengers carried was on the year at 1.1 billion (U -Bahn: 866 million, Bus: 212 million, some 40 million in the other three areas of transport ), equivalent to 3.07 million passengers per day; electricity generation was 122 GWh. Operating profits earned in 2012 the subway ( 12.3 billion yen) and to a lesser extent, the monorail and power generation, the Nippori - Toneri Liner catch the regular losses of 1.7 billion yen, the bus lines in 2012 0.4 billion. yen loss (after 1.0 billion yen profit in 2010 and 1.8 billion yen loss in 2011 ). The number of employees was 6,616.

The forerunner of the Office of the Tokyo Prefecture, the "Electricity Office of the city of Tokyo " ( Tōkyō- shi denki - kyoku东京 市 电 気 局), originated in 1911 when the city of Tokyo bought the corporation Tōkyō tetsudō ( " Railway Tokyo "). These had started in 1882 as Tōkyō Basha tetsudō ( " horse-drawn wagon railway Tokyo ") with the operation between Shimbashi and Nihombashi. The acquisition marked the beginning of the city's tram network ( Shiden ) in Tokyo; the company also included a power supply network and three combustion power plants. After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, the denki - kyoku from 1924 also operated city buses. 1942, eight bus and tram companies nationalized in the Pacific War, and fell on the city. In the same year the electricity business was transferred as part of the centralization of power on the basis of the National Mobilization Law to the Kantō Haiden - it was in the postwar period of the Tōkyō Denryoku. Since 1943, the office is under its present name, when it became part of the new prefectural government has been at the resolution of the independent city administration. With the large air raid on Tokyo ( Tōkyō Daikushu ) on 10 March 1945, the office reported serious damage. In the reconstruction of new means of transport were added: 1952, the trolleybus, 1954 coaches with reservation, 1957, the monorail, 1960, the subway. Several non- directly for the operation associated businesses have now been outsourced to private companies owned by such the subway construction in 1988. The renewed entry into the electricity goes back to a decision of the Prefecture of Parliament from 1954. After that, the office began in 1955 with the construction of the " power plant Tamagawa No. 1" ( Tamagawa daiichi hatsudensho ) at Okutama Lake, later followed by the power plants Shiromaru and Tamagawa No. 3