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| location_city    = Miyajima-chō, [[Hatsukaichi|Hatsukaichi City]], [[Hiroshima Prefecture]]
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[[File:みやじま丸.jpg|thumb|Miyajima-maru]]
[[Image:ItsukushimaTorii7359.jpg|thumb|View of torii of [[Itsukushima Shrine]] from ferry]]

{{nihongo|'''JR Miyajima Ferry'''|JR宮島フェリー|Jeiāru Miyajima Ferī}} is the ferry route between Miyajimaguchi, [[Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima]] and [[Itsukushima|Miyajima]] (Itsukushima).  JR Miyajima Ferries are operated by {{nihongo|JR West Miyajima Ferry Co., Ltd.|JR西日本宮島フェリー株式会社|Jeiāru Nishinihon Miyajima Ferī Kabushiki Kaisha}}, a wholly owned subsidiary of [[West Japan Railway Company]] (JR West).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westjr.co.jp/english/english/company/con02/library/annual/2010/pdf/c15.pdf|title=Consolidated Subsidiaries as of March 31, 2010|work=Annual Report 2010|author=West Japan Railway Company|accessdate=December 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008131007/http://www.westjr.co.jp/english/english/company/con02/library/annual/2010/pdf/c15.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There are three ferries called the ''Miyajima-maru'', the ''Nanaura-maru'', and the ''Misen-maru''.  One trip between Miyajima-guchi and Miyajima takes ten minutes.

==History==
The private boat route was founded in 1897.  The ferry route was placed in a public company in 1899.  The ferry route was bought by [[Sanyo Railway]] in 1903.  Sanyo Railway was nationalized as part of the [[Japanese Government Railways]] in 1906.
[[Japanese National Railways]], which was reorganized from government railways in 1949, was privatized in 1987. Operations in the Hiroshima area were assigned to JR West.  JR West transferred the ferry business to its new subsidiary JR West Miyajima Ferry Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2009.<ref>[http://www.westjr.co.jp/news/newslist/article/1174015_799.html JR West press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329072306/http://www.westjr.co.jp/news/newslist/article/1174015_799.html |date=2009-03-29 }}, December 4, 2008 {{in lang|ja}}</ref>  The route, commonly called ''Miyajima Renrakusen'' (宮島連絡船), was one of those classified as ''tetsudō renrakusen'' (鉄道連絡船), ferry routes as a part of railway network. All other JR ''renrakusen'' routes were closed by 1990 and the JR Miyajima Ferry was the last one of that kind until its separation in 2009.

==Piers==
*[[Miyajima-guchi]]
*[[Itsukushima|Miyajima]]

==See also==
*[[Miyajima Matsudai Kisen]] - operates a similar route

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.jr-miyajimaferry.co.jp/ JR Miyajima Ferry] {{in lang|ja}}

{{Ferries and boats for Miyajima}}
{{Hiroshima transit}}

[[Category:Transport in Hiroshima Prefecture]]
[[Category:Ferry companies of Japan]]
[[Category:Ferries of Japan]]
[[Category:West Japan Railway Company|Miyajima Ferry]]
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