Keikyu
Sign in to saveAlso known as Keihin Electric Express Railway, Keikyu Corporation, Keikyū, Keikyū Corporation
(), also known as or, more recently, , is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. It also provides rail access to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. means the - area. The company's railroad origins date back to 1898, but the current company dates to 1948. The railway pioneered Kantō region's first electric train and the nation's third, after Hanshin Electric Railway and Nagoya Electric Railway (Meitetsu) with the opening of a short long section of what later became the Daishi Line in January 1899.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Keikyu is referenced by 406 other articles, and connects out to Tōkaidō Shinkansen, East Japan Railway Company and Tōhoku Shinkansen.
It sits within the topics Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Fuyo Group and Keikyu.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Keikyu Corporation
- Company.native_name
- 京浜急行電鉄株式会社
- Company.native_name_lang
- ja
- Company.former_name
- Keihin Electric Express Railway Company, Ltd. (1948-2010)
- Company.logo
- Keikyu logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.image
- Keikyu Headquarters.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 200px
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Yokohama
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.location_city
- Yokohama
- Company.location_country
- Japan
- Company.key_people
- (President)
- Company.industry
- Public transportReal estateRetail
- Company.subsid
- Keihin Kyuko Busetc
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- private railway
- Has part
- Keikyū Kurihama Line
- Named after
- Keihin region
- Official name
- Keikyu Corporation
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Yokohama
- Industry
- public transport
- Stock exchange
- Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Official website
- www.haneda-tokyo-access.com
- Image
- Keikyu Headquarters.jpg
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- inception
- 1898-02-25
- Commons category
- Keikyu Corporation
- topic's main category
- Category:Keikyu
- location of formation
- Minato
- member of
- Fuyo Group
- date of official opening
- 1898-02-25
- social media followers
- 17600
- official shop URL
- www.otodokeikyu-sc.com
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Lines
- Stations
- Rolling stock
- Active
- Retired
- Accidents
- References
- Further reading
- External links
(), also known as or, more recently, , is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. It also provides rail access to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. means the - area. The company's railroad origins date back to 1898, but the current company dates to 1948. The railway pioneered Kantō region's first electric train and the nation's third, after Hanshin Electric Railway and Nagoya Electric Railway (Meitetsu) with the opening of a short long section of what later became the Daishi Line in January 1899.
thumb|150px|Keikyu's formal logo, adopted in 1964, rarely used in publicity since 1983; today it is mostly found in Keikyu maintenance worker headgear. It is a stylized version of the katakana ヶ
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Keikyu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.