Yamanashi Kōtsū

Yamanashi Kōtsū (山梨交通) is a bus company in west of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

Outline
This company established in 1May 1945, as merged into many bus, taxi and railway companies.

Kanemaru Family, which Shin Kanemaru came from, established Yamanashi Kotsu in 1950. Kenji Osano, who was a chief executive operator in Kokusai Kogyo Group, invested into Yamanashi Kotsu and became a parent company of that. He helped Yamanashi Kotsu, which was in difficult to operate a lot of deficit routes because he was born in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Yamako Department Store was established by Kokusai Kogyo, and, from the first of establishment until bankruptcy, it connected with Tokyu Group and their department stores.

In 2009, Kokusai Kogyo transferred all their owned shares to Yamanashi Kotsu employee because Kokusai Kogyo got acquired by Cerberus Capital Management from Osano Family.

Establishment in the first time


Railway business was established in 1897 as Yamanashi Horse Tram opened between Kofu, Yamanashi and Isawa, Yamanashi

Area served
The company's bus lines serve city of Kōfu and vicinities.

Subsidiary companies
Yamako (山交百貨店) had been a department store company in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan until 30 September 2019. And, since 30 September 2019, the company has specialized in managing parking areas and properties.