Private company
Ainokaze Toyama Railway
Logo: Momiji-Penguin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
Third-sector railway operating company in Japan
The Ainokaze Toyama Railway (あいの風とやま鉄道株式会社, Ainokaze Toyama Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in March 2015, coinciding with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa. The company was founded on 24 July 2012, and has its headquarters in Toyama in Toyama Prefecture.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industrypublic transport1
- HeadquartersToyama1
- Websiteainokaze.co.jp
- Legal formkabushiki gaisha1
See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

The Ainokaze Toyama Railway (あいの風とやま鉄道株式会社, Ainokaze Toyama Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in March 2015, coinciding with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from Nagano to Kanazawa. The company was founded on 24 July 2012, and has its headquarters in Toyama in Toyama Prefecture.2
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
- Toyama Prefecture
From Wikidata.1
Timeline
- Jul 24, 2012Founded Founded1
Links
- Websiteainokaze.co.jp1
- X (Twitter)x.com/ainokaze_train1
- WikipediaAinokaze Toyama Railway
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ11456453
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1
- 2WikipediaAinokaze Toyama Railway on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsAinokaze Toyama Railway logo by Momiji-Penguin, Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsAinokaze Toyama Railway photo by Yasu ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0