Nihon Kotsu as the "Prince of Taxis." The company was founded as a sole proprietorship in 1928 and reorganized as a stock company in December 1945. It began as a limousine operator and expanded to taxi service in 1940. NK operates the most popular taxi hailing mobile application in Japan, Japan Taxi. Toyota invested 500 million yen in the app in 2017, followed by a second 7.5 billion investment in 2018. Tokyo Musen, a major rival of Nihon Kotsu in the Tokyo area, joined the app later that year in an effort to counterbalance foreign rivals such as Uber and Didi Chuxing.
Transport in Jakarta neighbourhoods of the city. Plenty of taxi cabs are available in the city. Many companies operate & maintain pools of different model of cars in their own brands. Taxis operated by app-based ride hailing companies GO-JEK and Grab also have wide presence. The emergence of ride hailing companies, known in Indonesia as "taksi online" (online taxi), has reduced the conventional taxi companies operating in Jakarta from 32 to 4 companies (Blue Bird, Express, Gamya, and Taxiku). Although "ojek" are not an official form of public transport, they can be found throughout Indonesia and in Jakarta. They are especially useful when