Hankyū Dentetsu

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Hankyū Dentetsu KK

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legal form Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company)
founding October 19, 1907
Seat Kita-ku , Osaka , Japan
management Kazuo Sumi ( daihyō torishimariyaku shachō , president), Eiji Igata ( daihyō torishimariyaku semmu torishimariyaku , managing director)
Branch Transport , logistics
Website rail.hankyu.co.jp

Hankyū Dentetsu KK ( Japanese : 阪急 電 鉄 株式会社 , Hankyū dentetsu kabushiki kaisha ; English : Hankyu Corp. or Hankyu Railway Corp. ) is a private railway company in Japan , which, with its own standard-gauge route network , serves the northern Kansai region with local and regional transport served.

It is a 100% subsidiary of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings KK ( 阪急阪神ホールディングス株式会社) which in turn, together with H₂O Retailing KK and Toho KK under the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group ( 阪急阪神東宝グループ , Hankyu Hanshin Toho Gurūpu ) is subsumed.

Surname

The company name is derived from Keihanshin Kyūkō ( 京 阪神 急 行 ). The word Keihanshin ( 京 阪神 ) describes the metropolitan region, which is formed from the cities of Kyōto ( 京都 ), Osaka ( 大阪 ) and Kobe ( 神 戸 ). Kyūkō ( 急 行 ) literally means express train . The most important station of the route network is in Umeda , a district of Osaka, in which a large number of private railway lines meet and allow transfers, for example to the network of Kintetsu .

Route network

The Hankyū route network

The route network operated by the company with a gauge of 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) has a length of 138.4 kilometers. 1.9 million passengers are carried every working day , with some route services being provided free of charge. The regular fares are currently (as of 2009) not based on the type of train, but on the route. They range from 150  yen (1st to 4th km) to 600 yen (from the 71st km).

history

A forerunner, the Minō Arima Denki Kidō KK ( 箕 面 有 馬 電 気 軌道 株式会社 ), was founded on October 19, 1907. The first regular passenger trains ran on March 10, 1910 from Umeda to Takarazuka and from Ishibashi (in Ikeda ) to Minō . On February 4, 1918 the name was changed to the current name.

From 1936 the Hanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu belonged to a baseball team in the Japanese professional league, the later Hankyū Braves in the Pacific League of the post-war period. In 1988, the Braves were transferred to the financial services provider ORIX , so that the company has since concentrated on the railroad and real estate business.

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  1. ^ Hankyū Hanshin Tōhō Group
  2. Fares from Hankyū: Price table at Umeda station
  3. 事業 年譜 . (No longer available online.) Hankyū Hanshin Holdings , archived from the original on January 20, 2010 ; Retrieved June 6, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / holdings.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp

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