Hanshin Electric Railway
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Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (阪神電気鉄道株式会社 Hanshin Denki-tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese private railway company of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
The second character for Osaka (大阪) and the first character for Kobe (神戸) combine to form the company name, 阪神, which can be read Han-shin.
IC cards (PiTaPa and ICOCA) are accepted when taking trains.
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[edit] Lines
- Main Line(本線) (Umeda-Motomachi)
- Nishi-Osaka Line(西大阪線) (Amagasaki-Nishi-Kujo)
- Mukogawa Line(武庫川線) (Mukogawa-Mukogawa-danchimae)
[edit] History
- June 12, 1899: Settsu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (摂津電気鉄道株式会社 Settsu Denki-tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) established
- July 7, 1899: The company is renamed "Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd."
- February 15, 1998: Joint operation with Sanyo Electric Railway of limited expresses service between Umeda and Himeji
- June 20, 2006: Hankyu Holdings completes its purchase of a controlling interest in Hanshin in a transaction valued at about $2.2 billion.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ UPDATE 2-Hankyu takes over fellow railway operator Hanshin. Reuters (2006-06-20). Retrieved on June 20, 2006.
