JR East Environment Access

JR East Environment Access Co., Ltd. (株式会社JR東日本環境アクセス) is a JR East Group company headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo, wholly owned by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It specialises in railway facility maintenance: cleaning of station buildings and rolling stock, building-services management, environmental sanitation, hotel services and security, as well as waste management and recycling. The company deploys automated cleaning machines and robots at JR East stations. It traces its origins to a department established in 1946 under the Tetsudō Kōsaikai foundation; it was incorporated as an independent entity on 30 March 1963 as Kōsai Seibi Co., Ltd. In 1999 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of JR East and was renamed East Japan Environment Access, and in December 2019 it adopted its current name, JR East Environment Access. It has capital of 120 million yen and about 3,400 employees. In 2023 it spun off its coin-locker division into a new company, JR East Smart Logistics.