Keio Dentetsu Bus

A Keio Dentetsu Bus car in Hachioji
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan
Service area	Tokyo along Keio Line
Service type	Bus
Stations	10 depots, 2 branch offices
Fleet	858 buses (as of July 2007)[1]
Fuel type	Diesel fuel, Compressed natural gas
Operator	Keio Dentetsu Bus Co., Ltd. Keio Bus Higashi Co., Ltd. Keio Bus Chūō Co., Ltd. Keio Bus Minami Co., Ltd. Keio Bus Koganei Co., Ltd.
Website	http://www.keio-bus.com

Keio Dentetsu Bus Co., Ltd. (京王電鉄バス株式会社, Keiō Dentetsu Basu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a core bus-operating company of the Keio Group which was established on February 1, 2002, inherited business all of the Keio Electric Railway (present Keio Corporation) automobile operation division and started business on August 1 of the same year. It has four subsidiaries, Keio Bus Higashi Co., Ltd. (京王バス東株式会社, Keiō Basu Higashi Kabushiki-gaisha), Keio Bus Chuo Co., Ltd. (京王バス中央株式会社, Keiō Basu Chūō Kabusiki-gaisha), Keio Bus Minami Co., Ltd. (京王バス南株式会社, Keiō Basu Minami Kabushiki-gaisha) and Keio Bus Koganei Co., Ltd. (京王バス小金井株式会社, Keiō Basu Koganei Kabushiki-gaisha) (This article treats also about these subsidiaries). The head office of these companies is located in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. The operating area of a general bus on a regular route is mainly the Tokyo Tama area and if the management commission route to each subsidiary company is included, the operating area is reached mostly whole region along all areas along the Keio railroad lines. Moreover, it operates around the expressway bus routes to Nagano Prefecture, Hida-Takayama, Miyagi Prefecture, etc. from Shinjuku.

History

The history of the bus of Keio starts for the Keio Denki Kidō Co. to have opened the bus on April 15, 1913 in the section where the railroad is not opened for traffic (between Shinjuku Station - Sasazuka Station and between Chōfu Station - Fuchū Station - Kokubunji Station). Although these were the first bus business in Tokyo, the tone of the provisional means of transport was deep, and canceled between Chōfu Station - Kokubunji Station in 1914, between Shinjuku Station - Sasazuka Station was abolished with railroad commencement of business in 1915, and all have taken down the curtain for a short period of time.

Keio sets about a bus enterprise in early stages of Shōwa period again. Banzai Jidōsha Co.(万歳自動車) which operated around the bus from the end of Taishō period changed the company name to the Kōshū Kaidō Noriai Jidōsha Co.(甲州街道乗合自動車) in July, 1924, and the route was extended to Tama-mura Tokyo city-owned park cemetery (present Tama Cemetery) through Karasuyama and Chofu. However, Keio which has a railroad in parallel to the Kōshū Kaidō felt this as the threat, and made more than the majority of the holdings of the company acquisition and an associated company in May, 1927. Furthermore, the Keio acquired Kōshū Kaidō Noriai Jidōsha in 1937, and absorbed enterprise all. Thereby, the automobile division and Sasazuka office were installed and the bus enterprise of the direct management which leads to the present Keio Dentetsu Bus Group was resumed. Hachiōji Shigai Jidōsha Co.(八王子市街自動車) was purchased and the Hachioji Office was established in 1938. Moreover, Takahata Noriai (高幡乗合) is purchased in the same year, Yugi Noriai Jidōsha (由木乗合自動車) was purchased in 1939, and these enterprises were absorbed. The Pacific War broke out and the route within Yamanote Line was transferred to Tokyo City on February 1, 1942 for the war integration based on a land transport business method of preparation. Moreover, the Keio came to be merged by Tokyu Corporation on May 31, 1944 (Keio Teito Electric Railway dissociated from Tokyu in 1948).

Depots

Head Office of Keio Dentetsu Bus and its subsidiaries - 2-22, Harumichō, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

• Keio Dentetsu Bus
  • Hachioji Depot (八王子営業所) - 1304-3, Naganumamachi, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
  • Sakuragaoka Depot (桜ヶ丘営業所) - 4-898, Ochikawa, Hino, Tokyo, Japan.
• Keio Bus Higashi
  • Nakano Depot (中野営業所) - 51-9, Yayoichō 2-chōme, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
  • Eifukucho Depot (永福町営業所) - 60-19, Eifuku 2-chōme, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
  • Chofu Depot (調布営業所) - 6-6, Kokuryōchō, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
  • Setagaya Depot (世田谷営業所) - 9-1, Kami-Kitazawa, 5-chōme, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Chuo
  • Fuchu Depot (府中営業所) - 22, Harumichō 2-chōme, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Minami
  • Minami-Osawa Depot (南大沢営業所) - 26-1, Minami-Ōsawa 5-chōme, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
  • Tama Depot (多摩営業所) - 1-1, Minamino 1-chōme, Tama, Tokyo, Japan
  • Terada Branch Office (寺田支所) - 374-1, Teradamachi, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Koganei
  • Koganei Depot (小金井営業所) - 3-31, Honchō 5-chōme, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Major routes

Regular routes

A highway Keio Dentetsu Bus car

A Keio Bus Minami car

A minibus operated in Tama area

Operators:

^D : Keio Dentetsu Bus

^H : Keio Bus Higashi

^C : Keio Bus Chuo

^M : Keio Bus Minami

^K : Keio Bus Koganei

• From Shibuya Station
  • for Hatsudai Station via Tomigaya (富ヶ谷) and Tokyo Opera City ^H
  • for Sasazuka Station via Tomigaya ^H
  • for Asagaya Station via Hōnanchō (方南町) and Shin-Kōenji Station ^H
• From Shinjuku Station
  • for Nakano Station via Rokugō-Dōri (六号通り) ^H
  • for Eifukuchō (永福町) via Hōnanchō ^H
• From Nakano Station
  • for Eifukuchō via Hōnanchō ^H
  • Daitabashi Circulate Line (代田橋循環線) ^H
• From Kōenji Station
  • for Eifukuchō via Shin-Kōenji Station ^H
• From Chōfu Station North Exit
  • for Kichijōji Station via Chūō Expressway Jindaiji B.S. (中央道深大寺バス停下) ^H
  • for Kyorin University Hospital (杏林大学病院) via Chūō Expressway Jindaiji B.S. ^H
• From Chōfu station South Exit
  • for Tsutsujigaoka Station via Matsubara (松原) ^H
  • for Kurumagaeshi-Danchi-Orikaeshijō (車返団地折返場) via Tamagawa-Dōri (多摩川通り) ^H
  • for Inagi Municipal Hospital (稲城市立病院) via Yanokuchi Station ^H
• From Fuchū Station
  • for Musashi-Koganei Station via Ippongi (一本木) and Gakuen-Dōri Post Office (学園通り郵便局) ^D
  • for Kokubunji Station via Meisei Gakuen (明星学苑) ^D
  • for Kunitachi Station via Fuchu Hospital (府中病院) ^C
  • for Inagi Municipal Hospital via Koremasa (是政) ^C
• From Seiseki-Sakuragaoka Station
  • for Tama-Center Station via Matsugaya (松が谷) ^D
  • for Minami-Ōsawa Station via Yugi-Orikaeshijō (由木折返場) ^M
  • for Takahatafudō Station via Mogusaen Station ^D
• From Takahatafudō Station
  • for Tachikawa Station via Hino Bridge (日野橋) ^D
  • for Teikyo University (帝京大学) ^D
• From Hino Station
  • for Toyoda Station via Izumizuka (泉塚) ^D
  • for Hachiōji Station via Hinodai (日野台) ^D
• From Toyoda Station
  • for Hachiōji Station via Ōwada-Sakaue (大和田坂上) ^D
  • for Tama-Center Station via Tama Tech (多摩テック) ^D
• From Hachiōji Station (Keio & JR) North Exit
  • for Nagafusa-Danchi (長房団地) and Shiroyamate (城山手) via Oiwake (追分) ^D
  • for Tategaoka-Danchi (館ヶ丘団地) via Nishi-Hachiōji Station ^D
• From Hachiōji Station (JR) South Exit
  • for Mejirodai Station via Fujimori Park (富士森公園) ^D
  • for Minami-Ōsawa Station via Kitano Station ^M
• From Minami-Ōsawa Station
  • Minami-Ōsawa 5-chome junkan (Circulate Line) (南大沢5丁目循環) ^M
  • for Tama Art University (多摩美術大学) ^M
• From Takao Station
  • for Tategaoka-Danchi ^D
  • for Kobotoke (小仏) ^M

Cars

Nissan Diesel JP introduced in 1995

The vehicles introduced from four manufacturers, Hino, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso and Nissan Diesel, are held into the Keio Dentetsu Bus Group. Although the general route vehicle is introduced from all these four manufacturers, the rate of the Nissan Diesel vehicles is slightly high. The reason is that the one-step vehicles with narrow width and long body (Nissan Diesel JP) were purchased in lump sum from Nissan Diesel in advancing low floor-ization of vehicles in the mid-1990s.

See also

• List of bus operating companies in Japan (east)
• Keio Corporation
• Nishi Tokyo Bus

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keio Dentetsu Bus.

• Keio Dentetsu Bus Group (in Japanese)
• highwaybus.com (in Japanese) (for expressway bus information)
• highwaybus.com (in English) (for expressway bus information)
• Bus-Navi.com (in Japanese) (for timetable information)