Osaka Municipal Subway
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| Locale | Osaka City, Higashiosaka, Kadoma, Moriguchi, Sakai, Suita, and Yao |
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| Transit type | Electrified Metro Railway |
| Began operation | 1933 |
| System length | 129.9km |
| No. of lines | Eight |
| No. of stations | 99 |
| Daily ridership | 2,260,000[1] |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in) |
| Operator | Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau |
Osaka Municipal Subway (大阪市営地下鉄 Ōsaka-shiei chikatetsu?) is the metro network in the city of Osaka, Japan. It is operated by Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau. Its first service, the Midōsuji Line from Umeda to Shinsaibashi, opened in 1933.
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[edit] Rolling stock
The Osaka Municipal Subway uses rolling stock built between 1967 and 2005. All lines are worked by a single type of stock except the Midōsuji, the Tanimachi, and the Chūō Lines. The latest rollout of stock is 80 Series for the Imazatosuji Line on November 2005. The subway rolling stock is mainly divided in two categories, one consisting of conventional electric motored trains and the other of linear motored trains.
Summary of current rolling stock:
- Electric motored
- 10 Series: Midōsuji Line
- 20 Series: Chūō Line
- 21 Series: Midōsuji Line
- 22 Series: Tanimachi Line
- 23 Series: Yotsubashi Line
- 24 Series: Chūō Line
- 25 Series: Sennichimae Line
- 30 Series: Tanimachi Line
- 66 Series: Sakaisuji Line
- Linear motored
- 70 Series: Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
- 80 Series: Imazatosuji Line
[edit] Lines
There are eight subway lines operated now.
| Color | Name | Label / letter | First section opened |
Last ex- tension |
Length km/miles |
Stations served | Journeys per annum (000's) |
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| Red | Via trackage rights | Kitakyū Namboku Line | M | 1970 | 1970 | 5.9/3.7 | 4[1] | N/A |
| Line 1 | Midōsuji Line | 1933 | 1987 | 24.5/15.2 | 20 | 459,170 | ||
| Purple | Line 2 | Tanimachi Line | T | 1967 | 1983 | 28.1/17.5 | 26 | 187,610 |
| Blue | Line 3 | Yotsubashi Line | Y | 1942 | 1970 | 11.4/7.1 | 11 | 114,610 |
| Green | Line 4 | Chūō Line (Yumehanna) | C | 1997[2] | - | 2.4/1.5 | 2[3] | N/A |
| 1961[4] | 2005 | 15.5/9.6 | 13 | 95,995 | ||||
| Via trackage rights | Kintetsu Keihanna Line (Yumehanna) | 1986 | 2006 | 18.8/11.7 | 8[5] | N/A | ||
| Pink | Line 5 | Sennichimae Line | S | 1969 | 1981 | 12.6/7.8 | 13 | 71,905 |
| Brown | Via trackage rights | Hankyū Senri Line | - | 1969 | - | 13.6/8.5 | 11[6] | N/A |
| Hankyū Kyoto Line | 1969[7] | - | 41.1/25.5 | 22[8] | N/A | |||
| Line 6 | Sakaisuji Line | K | 1969 | 1993 | 8.5/5.3 | 10 | 119,720 | |
| Yellow green | Line 7 | Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line | N | 1990 | 1997 | 15.0/9.3 | 16 | 54,750 |
| Golden orange | Line 8 | Imazatosuji Line | I | 2006 | - | 11.9/7.4 | 11 | N/A |
| Cerulean blue | - | Nankō Port Town Line | P | 1997[9] | - | 0.7/0.4 | 2[10] | 7,106 |
| 1981[11] | 2005 | 7.2/4.5 | 9 | 24,083 | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- http://www.kotsu.city.osaka.jp/english/subway/img/map.pdf - Osaka Municipal Subway route map (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Including Esaka Station
- ^ Owned by OTS between Cosmosquare Station and Osakakō Station
- ^ Including Osakakō Station
- ^ Between Osakakō Station and Nagata Station
- ^ Including Nagata Station
- ^ Including Tenjimbashisuji Rokuchōme Station
- ^ Between Awaji Station and Kawaramachi Station
- ^ Including Awaji Station
- ^ Owned by OTS between Cosmosquare Station and Trade Center-mae Station
- ^ Including Trade Center-mae Station
- ^ Between Trade Center-mae Station and Suminoekoen Station
