Since its founding in 1922, Tokyu Group has continued to work to resolve social issues through urban Urban and community development based on its railway business, aiming to create beautiful living environments
Here we will introduce some of our major social contribution initiatives and awards. For reference, we also list the history of our main business activities (events marked with *).
| September 1922 | Founding of Meguro-Kamata Electric Railway (the predecessor of our company) * |
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| November 1923 | Mekama line opens to traffic between Meguro and Kamata. * |
| November 1934 | Toyoko Department Store (now Tokyu Department Store Co., Ltd.) opens * |
| April 1939 | Toyoko Commercial School for Girls is founded. Keita Goto is appointed as honorary principal. |
| April 1940 | Toyoko Gakuen is founded. Keita Goto is appointed chairman. |
| April 1949 | Opening of the Dai-tokyu Memorial Library (merged with Goto Museum of Art in 2011) |
| January 1953 | Prospectus for the development of the Josei South District (now Tokyu Tama Den-en-toshi area) is announced.** |
| July 1953 | Tokyu Hospital is opened. |
| November 1954 | Keita Goto appointed as president of Musashi Institute of Technology |
| November | The Toyoko Department Store expands its west wing and opens the Toyoko Hall. It becomes a hall where performances can be held at low ticket prices, aiming to popularize kabuki, theater, rakugo, and other performances (until 1985). |
| April 1955 | Musashi Institute of Technology and Toyoko Gakuen merged to form the Gotoh Ikueikai (now the Tokyo City University Group). |
| April | Tokyu Driving School opens |
| August 1956 | Keita Goto appointed as chairman of the Asia Academy |
| April 1957 | The Goto Planetarium opened in the Tokyu Bunka Kaikan building in Shibuya in 1956 (until 2001). |
| April 1960 | The Gotoh Museum opens |
| March 1962 | Tokyu the Tama Den-en-toshi area completed as the first land readjustment project. |
| 1963 | Tokyu Association launched. As of 2021, "Tokyu-kai" is made up of Tokyu Group employees from 23 regions in Japan and 4 regions overseas, and carries out local cleaning activities and cultural and sports events. |
| April 1966 | Den-en-toshi Line Line opened between Mizonokuchi and Nagatsuta. |
| April 1972 | "Tokyu Line Greening Campaign" (now "Mido*Link" Action) begins, where seedlings are given away |
| July | Tokyu Group 's slogan is decided as "Humanizer Tokyu Group for Human Enrichment" |
| August 1974 | The Tokyu Foundation for Environmental Purification (now the Tokyu Foundation) is established. |
| October 1975 | The Tokyu Foundation for Foreign Students* (now the Tokyu Foundation) is established. |
| April 1982 | The Train and Bus Museum opens under Takatsu Station elevated railway tracks. |
| October | Tama Plaza Tokyu SC (now Tama Plaza Terrace) opens * |
| October 1986 | The Tokyu Group’s slogan is adopted: “Deepening the richness of the 21st century —Tokyu Group.” |
| September 1989 | Large-scale cultural complex "Bunkamura" opens |
| October | Tokyu the Tama Den-en-toshi area wins Prime Minister's Award at Green City Awards |
| March 1990 | The Gotoh Memorial Foundation (now the Tokyu Foundations) is established. |
| March 1994 | The Tokyu Foundation for Environmental Cleansing launches the environmental education supplementary textbook "Let's Go to Tama River." It begins distributing it free of charge to elementary schools in the river basin. |
| April | Opened the Tokyu the Tama Den-en-toshi area Urban and community development Center at Tana Station on Den-en-toshi Line (until 2015) |
| December 1995 | The 1st Tokyu Silvester Concert was held at Bunkamura Orchard Hall (sponsored by Tokyu Group). |
| September 1997 | Tokyu Group established the slogan "Toward a Beautiful Age-Tokyu Group" and Group Philosophy. Mission Statement is to "to create beautiful living environments, in which each person can pursue individual happiness in a harmonious society" |
| May 2001 | The “Flowering on the Setagaya Line,” involving the planting of flowers and other plants along the Setagaya Line track and in the station premises, begins. |
| December 2007 | Tokyu Kids Program launched, offering parent-child work experience and facility tours at Tokyu Group companies |
| July 2009 | First award ceremony for "Tokyu Group Environmental Award" and "Tokyu Group Brand Award" (currently Tokyu Group Environmental and Social Contribution Award) held |
| August | The Tokyu Foundation for Environmental Cleansing established the "Social Contribution Academic Award" to contribute to the promotion of academic research in Japan. |
| April 2012 | We have agreed to collaborate with Yokohama City to begin an initiative to develop "regenerative urban Urban and community development in suburban residential areas" that can be passed on to future generations, and have concluded an agreement to promote "Next-generation suburban development" |
| April | Launch of "Mido*Link Action" to support local greening activities and community building. With this, the "Tokyu Line Greening Campaign" ended (223,000 seedlings were distributed over 40 years since 1972). |
| March 2018 | Announced Three-year Medium-term Management Plan. Based on the slogan "Make the Sustainable Growth," the plan sets out three sustainability themes (sustainable urban and community development, sustainable business development, and sustainable human resource development) as basic policies, and identifies six "Material sustainability themes" (safety and security, Urban and community development, low-carbon and recycling-based society, Quality of Living Environment, human resource development, and corporate governance and compliance). |
| March 2019 | Setagaya Line begins operation on Japan's first CO2-free 100% renewable energy line |
| April | The Tokyu Environmental Foundation, the Tokyu International Student Scholarship Foundation, and the Gotoh Memorial Foundation were integrated to establish the Tokyu Foundation, a public interest Foundations foundation. |
| July | The Tokyu Group Environmental Award and Tokyu Group Brand Award were added to the list of Social Contribution initiatives, and the first awards were given out as Tokyu Group Environmental and Social Contribution Award |
| September | Under Tokyu Group slogan, the company announced Long-term Management Initiative based on Sustainable management: "Creating a beautiful living environment for our future" |
| July 2020 | Launch of the Tokyu Children's Support Program to support local activities that support children's happiness |
| September | The SDGs-themed wrapped train "SDGs Train 2020 'Toward a Beautiful Age'" begins operation |
| April 2022 | Tokyu Railways becomes the first in Japan to operate all of its railway lines using 100% renewable energy. |