Hankai Tramway Co., Ltd. ( 阪堺電気軌道株式会社 , Hankai Denki Kidō Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a company which owns two tramway lines in the cities of Osaka and Sakai, Osaka , Japan. It was originally a subsidiary of Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. although it still uses the Nankai symbol as its logo.
5-531: Hankai Tramway Co., Ltd. was founded in 1910. In 1915, the company merged with the Nankai Railway which runs both north and south in Osaka. The city's overall tram network was once extensive. As motorization developed as an alternative form of transportation along with the construction of subway lines underneath major routes, the trams lost their passengers, causing Osaka's once-extensive tram network to shrink, with only
10-847: Is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name Nankai (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō , the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates all the electric railways in the Tokyo region. The Nankai network branches out in a generally southern direction from Namba Station in Osaka . The Nankai Main Line connects Osaka to Wakayama , with an important spur branching to Kansai International Airport . The rapi:t α express connects Kansai International Airport to Namba in 34 minutes, while
15-502: The rapi:t β takes 39 minutes with two additional stops. The Koya Line connects Osaka to Mt. Koya , headquarters of the Buddhist Shingon sect and a popular pilgrimage site. IC cards ( PiTaPa and ICOCA ) are accepted. The Nankai Railway Company was founded on June 16, 1884. In 1944 it was one of the companies that merged to form Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. (Kin-nichi, present Kintetsu Railway) . However, Kin-nichi transferred
20-604: The Hankai and Uemachi tram lines remaining. By 1980, the company split from Nankai. However, Hankai still uses the Nankai symbol as its logo despite this. The lines use standard gauge tracks and are electrified at 600 Volts via catenary . This article about a Japanese railway corporation or company-related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nankai Railway Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. ( 南海電気鉄道株式会社 , Nankai denki tetsudō kabushiki gaisha )
25-541: The former Nankai Railway Company's lines to the present Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (named Koyasan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. from March 28, 1925 until March 14, 1947) on June 1, 1947. From 1938 to 1988, Nankai Electric Railway owned the Nankai Hawks , a team in Nippon Professional Baseball that was based in Osaka. The team was sold to Daiei after the 1988 season and moved to Fukuoka and rechristened
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