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26-467: The Hankyu network serves 1,950,000 people every weekday and offers several types of express service with no extra charge. The head offices of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc. and Hankyu Corporation are at 1-16-1, Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka ; both companies' registered headquarters are at 1-1, Sakaemachi, Ikeda , Osaka Prefecture . The Takarazuka Revue , an all-female musical theatre performance company,

52-437: A holding company and was renamed Hankyu Holdings, Inc. ( 阪急ホールディングス株式会社 , Hankyū Hōrudhingusu Kabushiki-gaisha ) . The railway business was ceded to a subsidiary, now named Hankyu Corporation (before the restructuring, the new company which reused a dormant company founded on December 7, 1989, was called "Act Systems" ( 株式会社アクトシステムズ ) until March 28, 2004, then "Hankyū Dentetsu Bunkatsu Junbi K.K." ( 阪急電鉄分割準備株式会社 ) from

78-651: A major stake in Hankyu Holdings, hoping to boost efficiencies in the very diverse holdings of the Hankyu-Toho group. However, the takeover of Hanshin Electric Railway by Hankyu in the wake of the affair surrounding Fund Manager Yoshiaki Murakami and the establishment by Hankyu management of anti-takeover measures , as well as the global financial crisis resulted in Privee reducing its stake in

104-623: Is a Category-3 Operator ( 第三種鉄道事業者 , dai-sanshu-tetsudō-jigyōsha ) under the 1986 Railway Business Act of Japan in respect to all three lines. The company does not run its own services on these lines, but provides the necessary infrastructure for four private railway lines ( Hankyu Kobe Line ( Hankyu ), Hanshin Main Line ( Hanshin ), Shintetsu Arima Line ( Shintetsu ) and Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line ( Sanyo ) to be able to run trains through Kobe. The company operated and administered

130-550: Is a Japanese multinational keiretsu holding company which owns Hankyu Corporation , the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. , Toho Co., Ltd. , and affiliate companies. On October 1, 2006, Hankyu Holdings changed its name to the present corporate name following the merger with Hanshin Electric Railway . On the same day Hankyu Corporation Group was renamed Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group, and

156-552: Is well known as a division of the Hankyu railway company; all of its members are employed by Hankyu. The name Hankyu is an abbreviation of Keihanshin Kyūko ( 京阪神急行 ) . Keihanshin ( 京阪神 ) refers to the area served by Hankyu trains, comprising the cities of Kyoto ( 京都 ) , Osaka ( 大阪 ) and Kobe ( 神戸 ) , along with the suburbs that connect them to each other. Kyūko ( 急行 ) means "express train(s)". In 1907,

182-1324: The Keihan Main Line , the Uji Line , the Shinkeihan Line (present-day Kyoto Main Line), the Senriyama Line (present-day Senri Line), the Jūsō Line (part of Kyoto Main Line), the Arashiyama Line , the Keishin Line and the Ishiyama Sakamoto Line . The Katano Line was also added in 1945. On December 1, 1949, the Keihan Main Line, the Katano Line, the Uji Line, the Keishin Line, and the Ishiyama-Sakamoto Line were split off to become part of

208-775: The Nishinomiya Stadium as the team's home field was completed near Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station . The Hankyu Braves (named in 1947) played until the 1988 season and became the predecessors of the present-day Orix Buffaloes . On October 1, 1943, under the order of the government, Hanshin Kyūkō and Keihan Electric Railway were merged, and renamed Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway Company ( 京阪神急行電鉄株式会社 , Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha , referred to as "Keihanshin", 京阪神 ) . The merged lines included

234-561: The Hankyu Hanshin Express Holdings company. The retailing business is mainly concentrated in the company's large shareholding of H 2 O Retailing , the company formed via the merger of the Hankyu and Hanshin Department Store companies. The company owns and operates many hotels, and is developing real estate projects mainly on land along its railway lines through its subsidiary Hankyu Realty, which

260-1007: The Hankyu Toho Group renamed Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group . The operations of the company are centered on transportation, retailing, real estate, entertainment and media. The transportation segment is the company's main cashflow generating business and comprises the railway companies Hanshin Electric Railway (acquired in 2006) and Hankyu Railway . It also includes the smaller railway lines of Hokushin Kyūkō Electric Railway and Nose Electric Railway , as well as equity stakes in Kita-Osaka Kyūkō Railway , Sanyo Electric Railway , Osaka Monorail and Kobe Electric Railway . The company also owns various taxi and bus franchises. Hankyu and Hanshin also both had air cargo and express freight subsidiaries, which were combined in

286-648: The Itami Line from Tsukaguchi to Itami were opened. On April 1, 1936, the Kobe Main Line was extended from Nishi-Nada (present-day Ōji-kōen) to the new terminal in Kobe (present-day Kobe-Sannomiya Station ), and the Kobe Main Line from Nishi-Nada to Kamitsutsui was named the Kamitsutsui Line, which was abandoned on May 20, 1940. In 1936, Hankyu established a professional baseball team and in 1937

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312-993: The Kobe Main Line started through service to the Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Tozai Line and the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line . On December 6, 1969, the Kyoto Main Line and the Senri Line started through service to the Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line . In 1970, the Senri Line was one of access routes to the Expo '70 held in Senri area. On April 1, 1973, Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway Company assumed its current name. On April 1, 2005, former Hankyu Corporation became

338-648: The Minoo Arima Electric Tramway Company ( 箕面有馬電気軌道株式会社 , Minoo Arima Denki Kidō Kabushiki-gaisha ) , a forerunner of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc., was established by Ichizō Kobayashi (precisely, he was one of the "promoters" of the tramway). On 10 March 1910, Minoo Arima Tramway opened the rail lines from Umeda to Takarazuka (the Takarazuka Main Line ) and from Ishibashi to Minoo (the Minoo Line ). The tramway

364-651: The center of the train (exceptions are noted below). The Kobe Line and Takarazuka Line use the same fleet. Some former Hankyu trains, such as the 2000 series and 3100 series , have been transferred to the Nose Electric Railway . Single fare (adult) in Japanese Yen by travel distance is as follows. Fares for children (6–11 years old) are half the adult fare, rounded up to the nearest 10 yen. October 1, 2019 For fare collection, IC cards ( PiTaPa , ICOCA and others) are accepted. The fare rate

390-744: The company in 2008. Hankyu once owned a professional baseball team in Japan known as the Hankyu Braves. In 1988, the team was sold to Orient Leasing Co. (which changed its name to Orix in 1989) and the team name became the Orix BlueWave and later the Orix Buffaloes . The Hankyu Braves were sold by then-president of Hankyu, Kohei Kobayashi, to finance the redevelopment of Umeda Station and Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station . By acquiring Hanshin Electric Railway, Hankyu-Hanshin Holdings became

416-612: The entertainment area include the Hanshin Tigers and the Takarazuka Revue , and stakes in Kansai TV and FM Osaka , as well as tourism operations (e.g. Hankyu Travel). (As of August 2009) In 2006, the activist Fund Privee Zurich Turnaround Group run by Kenzo Matsumara (which later assumed the name Privee Investment Holding , was then acquired by e-Revolution co. Ltd. and now renamed Privee Fund Group ) took

442-849: The lines, the Kobe Lines, the Takarazuka Lines and the Kyoto Lines, can be further grouped into two, the Kobe-Takarazuka Lines and the Kyoto Lines from a historical reason. Hankyu has two groups of rolling stock, one for the Kobe-Takarazuka Lines and the other for the Kyoto Lines. The Keihan and Ōtsu Lines were transferred to Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. which separated from Keihanshin Kyūkō (now Hankyu) on December 1, 1949. As of March 31, 2010, Hankyu had 1,319 cars for passenger service. Standard cars have three pairs of doors per side and bench seating facing

468-575: The newly established Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. Although this revived the former Keihan Electric Railway, Keihan was now smaller than before the 1943 merger, because the Shinkeihan Line and its branches were not given up by Keihanshin. The present structure of the Hankyu network with the three main lines was fixed by this transaction. The abbreviation of Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway was changed from "Keihanshin" to "Hankyū". On April 7, 1968,

494-496: The next day). On October 1, 2006, Hankyu Holdings became the wholly owning parent company of Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and the holdings were renamed Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc. . Hankyu's stock purchase of Hanshin shares was completed on June 20, 2006. Hankyu operates three main trunk lines, connecting Osaka with Kobe , Takarazuka and Kyoto respectively, and their branches. The three groups of

520-549: The owner of the baseball team Hanshin Tigers . Kobe Rapid Transit Railway Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway Company, Limited (神戸高速鉄道株式会社 Kōbe kōsoku-tetsudō ) is a railway infrastructure company in central Kobe , Japan . Kobe Rapid Railway owns two lines. The Tozai and Namboku lines have been operated since the founding of the railway company while the Hokushin Line is a recent addition to its business. The company

546-541: The stations on the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line (except for Sannomiya Station operated by Hankyu, Motomachi Station operated by Hanshin, Nishidai Station operated by Sanyo and Minatogawa Station operated by Shintetsu) until September 2010, when the operation of the stations on the Tozai Line were transferred to Hanshin and Hankyu, and Shinkaichi Station on the Namboku Line to Shintetsu. The Hokushin Line

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572-670: The trains and at the various stations of the line. It was made into a film in 2011, titled Hankyu Railway: A 15-Minute Miracle . The Hankyu 2000 is the locomotive of choice for Takumi Fujiwara, the main character in Densha de D, a parody of Initial D where the main characters race with trains instead of cars. Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. ( 阪急阪神ホールディングス株式会社 , Hankyū Hanshin Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha )

598-616: Was changed on April 1, 2014, to reflect the change in the rate of consumption tax from 5% to 8%, and again on October 1, 2019, from 8% to 10%. A 2-car Hankyu train was featured in the 1988 Japanese animated war drama Grave of the Fireflies . One 2008 book by the Japanese writer Hiro Arikawa , Hankyu Densha , occurs entirely on the Hankyu–Imazu line, in the north-west suburbs of Osaka, where various characters meet and interact in

624-568: Was formerly owned by the operator Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway . When Hokushin Kyuko suffered financial difficulties in 2002, Kobe Rapid Railway purchased the assets of the railway trackage from Hokushin Kyuko. Unlike the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line stations, the stations of the Hokushin Line are operated and administrated by Hokushin Kyuko ( Tanigami Station ) and Kobe Municipal Subway ( Shin-Kobe Station ). On 1 June 2020,

650-552: Was popular due to Kobayashi's pioneering act to develop housing around stations along the line (a first in Japan), a forerunner to transit-oriented developments . On February 4, 1918, Minoo Arima Tramway was renamed Hanshin Kyūkō Railway Company ( 阪神急行電鉄株式会社 , Hanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki-gaisha , referred to as "Hankyū", 阪急 ) . On July 16, 1920, the Kobe Main Line from Jūsō to Kobe (later, renamed Kamitsutsui) and

676-688: Was previously separately listed, but fully acquired through a stock swap in 2002. It has spun off some of its vast real estate holdings (such as the HEP Five building) into a REIT company, Hankyu Hanshin Properties . The group has a controlling stake in Toho , which next to its many media interests (movie development and distribution, as well as a large stake in Fuji Media Holdings ) has also large real estate interests. Other companies in

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