Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (東京地下鉄株式会社 ,Tōkyō Chikatetsu Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a private company jointly owned by the Japanese government and the Tokyo metropolitan government.
It replaced the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (帝都高速度交通営団 ,Teito Kōsokudo Kōtsū Eidan?), commonly known as Eidan or TRTA, on April 1, 2004. TRTA was administered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and jointly funded by the national and metropolitan governments. It was formed in 1941, although its oldest lines date back to 1927.
The other metro operator in Tokyo is the government of Tokyo, through the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, which operates the Toei system. Metro and Toei trains form completely separate networks. While users of prepaid rail passes can freely interchange between the two networks, regular ticket holders must purchase a second ticket, or a special transfer ticket, to change from a Toei line to a Metro line and vice versa.
Much effort is made to make the system accessible to non-Japanese speaking users:
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