List of bus operating companies in Japan

List of bus operating companies in Japan lists Japanese bus operators. The list includes companies operating now. Operators are listed from north to south by prefecture of its headquarters.

The list includes transit buses, highway buses, or sightseeing buses. Operators of lines not open to passers-by, such as charter only companies, or schools operating school buses are not listed.

The list also excludes community bus (コミュニティバス, komyunitī basu) lines. It refers to feeder bus transits with usually smaller vehicles, operated by municipalities. See ja:日本のコミュニティバス一覧 for the list. "Normal" municipal bus transits (kōei basu (公営バス), such as Toei Bus of Tōkyō) are listed here.

Trolleybuses and guided buses are listed in the List of railway companies in Japan, as they are classified as railway in the country.

For the operators in Kantō and Kansai, accepted fare collection cards are indicated as below. Other operators may accept different cards.

C : Operators currently accepting magnetic Common Bus Card.
PA : Operators currently accepting smart card PASMO.
S : Operators currently accepting magnetic Surutto Kansai.
Pi : Operators currently accepting smart card PiTaPa.

English names might be tentative.

Hokkaidō

Akan Bus at Rausu.
Hokkaidō Chūō Bus at Sapporo.
Kushiro Bus at Kushiro Station.
Sōya Bus at Wakkanai, the northernmost bus operator in Japan.
The northernmost operator.

Tōhoku region

Kōnan Bus at Kuroishi.
An Nanbu Bus Isuzu C.
Shūhoku Bus vehicle, Ōdate.
Omoe Bus Terminal, Iwate Kenpoku Bus.
"Loople Sendai", a sightseeing bus by Sendai City Bus.

Aomori Prefecture

Akita Prefecture

Iwate Prefecture

Miyagi Prefecture

Yamagata Prefecture

Fukushima Prefecture

Kantō region

Seibu Bus cars at Kusatsu-Onsen Bus Station.
Tōbu Bus, Saitama.
Sky Bus Tōkyō, Hinomaru Limousine.
Keiō Bus.
"Twin Bus", Keisei Bus.
Ōshima Bus car at Izu Ōshima Island.
Toei Bus at Tokyo Station.
A local Tōkyū Bus car interior.
Tōkyū Transsés bus at Shibuya Station.
"Twin Liner", Kanagawa Chūō Kōtsū.

Ibaraki Prefecture

Tochigi Prefecture

Gunma Prefecture

Saitama Prefecture

Chiba Prefecture

Tokyo Metropolis

Sightseeing buses only.

Kanagawa Prefecture

Chūbu region

Muramatsu Bus Terminal, Kanbara Tetsudō.
Hokuriku Railroad bus, Kanazawa.
A highway Gifu Bus car.
Matsumoto Dentetsu Bus cars, Mount Norikura.
Yamanashi Kōtsū bus cars, Kōfu.
A sightseeing bus by Shizutetsu Justline.
Meitetsu Bus, Nagoya.
Nagoya City Bus.
Otowa Bus Stop on Tōmei Expressway, Aichi Prefecture.

Niigata Prefecture

Toyama Prefecture

Ishikawa Prefecture

Fukui Prefecture

Gifu Prefecture

Nagano Prefecture

Yamanashi Prefecture

Shizuoka Prefecture

Aichi Prefecture

Mie Prefecture

Kansai region

"Seishun Mega Dream", a double decker highway bus by West JR Bus.
Kintetsu Bus.
Ōsaka City Bus at Ōsaka Station.
Kyōto City Bus.
Minato Kankō Bus, Minamiawaji.
A highway Shinki Bus car.
"Gurutto Bus Nara Park Route" by Nara Kōtsū, at Nara prefectural government office.
Haibara Station Bus Stop, Nara Kōtsū.
Bus stops in Nara countryside. Mie Kōtsū, Nara Kōtsū, a community bus and a school bus stop here.
A small Ohmi Railway bus car.
Arida Railway Bus.

Ōsaka Prefecture

Kyōto Prefecture

Hyōgo Prefecture

These two are unrelated.

Nara Prefecture

Shiga Prefecture

Wakayama Prefecture

Chūgoku region

Hinomaru Bus car, Tottori.
A highway Ichibata Bus car.
Uno Bus car, Okayama.
A highway Hiroden Bus car, Hiroshima.
Bon-Bus.
Bus stops with bus location system, Iwakuni City Bus.
Iwakuni City Bus "Ichisuke".

Tottori Prefecture

Shimane Prefecture

Okayama Prefecture

Hiroshima Prefecture

Yamaguchi Prefecture

Shikoku region

Ichiba Kōtsū bus.
A highway Tokushima Bus car.
Takamatsu Station Bus Terminal, Kotoden Bus and others.
Ōkawa Bus.

Tokushima Prefecture

Kagawa Prefecture

The smallest operator in Japan, with 2 buses.

Ehime Prefecture

Kōchi Prefecture

Kyūshū region

A highway JR Kyūshū Bus car.
A typical local Nishitetsu Bus car, Fukuoka.
Three row seats of highway Nishitetsu Bus car.
Bus location boards at a bus stop, Kumamoto City Bus.
Iriomotejima Kōtsū Bus on Iriomote Island, the southernmost bus operator in Japan.
Ryūkyū Bus Kōtsū car at Naha Bus Terminal.

Fukuoka Prefecture

Nishitetsu Bus is the largest operator in Japan. It owns the fleet of 2,083 buses, or 3,100 by the entire group.

Saga Prefecture

Nagasaki Prefecture

Kumamoto Prefecture

Ōita Prefecture

Miyazaki Prefecture

Kagoshima Prefecture

Okinawa Prefecture

The southernmost operator.

See also

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