A non-step bus used for To (都) 04 route, at Marunouchi South Exit, Tokyo Station. Hino Rainbow, KL-HR1JNEE.
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Founded | 1923 (as Tokyo City Bus) |
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Locale | Metropolitan Tokyo region |
Service area | Tokyo, Japan |
Service type | Bus |
Routes | 138 |
Stops | 1,639 |
Stations | 12 depots, 7 branch offices |
Fleet | 1,467 buses |
Fuel type | Diesel fuel, compressed natural gas |
Operator | Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Tokyo metropolitan government) |
Website | English site |
The Toei Bus (都営バス Toei Basu?) is a bus service operated by the Bus Service Division, the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (東京都交通局 Tōkyō-to Kōtsū-kyoku?). It is also called To Bus (都バス Tobasu?).
The bureau mainly operates bus routes in the special wards of Tokyo, as well as those in the city of Ōme in the western Tama Area. It creates a virtual monopoly of bus routes in the central Tokyo (the area roughly within Yamanote Line loop), while those in other parts of Tokyo Metropolis and the Greater Tokyo Area are operated by many different companies. TMBT also operates a few other bus services, such as chartered bus, school bus, and community bus. Tokyo is one of the only two Japanese prefectures that directly operate bus routes, the other being by the Transportation Bureau of Nagasaki Prefecture.