Hankyu Corporation
Also known as Hankyu Railway
, trading as , is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region. It is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group (which includes H2O Retailing Corporation and Toho Co., the creator of Godzilla). The railway's main terminal is at Umeda Station in Osaka. The signature color of Hankyu cars is maroon.
Key facts
- Rail.railroad_name
- Hankyu Railway
- Rail.logo_filename
- Hankyu with word.svg
- Rail.logo_size
- 230px
- Rail.image
- HankyuNakatsuSta.jpg
- Rail.image_caption
- Six-track section near the Umeda Station terminal; Nakatsu Station in the center
- Rail.parent_company
- Hankyu Hanshin Holdings
- Rail.locale
- Kansai region, Japan
- Rail.start_year
- 1910 (established in 1907)
- Rail.hq_city
- Osaka, Japan
- Rail.website
- https://www.hankyu.co.jp/en/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Foundation
- Expansion to Kobe
- Merger and separation with Keihan
- Postwar development
- Rail lines
- Former lines
- Abandoned lines
- Transferred lines
- Rolling stock
- Kobe Line/Takarazuka Line
- Kyoto Line
- Fares
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
, trading as , is a Japanese private railway company that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region. It is one of the flagship properties of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., in turn part of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group (which includes H2O Retailing Corporation and Toho Co., the creator of Godzilla). The railway's main terminal is at Umeda Station in Osaka. The signature color of Hankyu cars is maroon.
The Hankyu network serves 1,950,000 people every weekday and offers several types of express service with no extra charge.