Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. ( 阪神電気鉄道株式会社 , Hanshin Denki-tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese private railway company owned by Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe . It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
3-902: The Hanshin Namba Line ( 阪神なんば線 , Hanshin Nanba sen ) is a railway line operated by the private railway operator Hanshin Electric Railway connecting Amagasaki Station in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, and Ōsaka Namba Station in Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The Dempō Line ( 伝法線 ) , the predecessor of the Hanshin Namba Line, was planned as a bypass for the Hanshin Railway Main Line, and to connect from Amagasaki to Noda via Dempō. Then
6-790: The plan was changed to connect to Nishikujō. The line was finally extended to Namba station in 2009. There are through rapid express operations between Kobe Sannomiya on the Main Line in Kobe and Kintetsu Nara Station on the Kintetsu Nara Line in Nara via the Hanshin Namba Line, and through local, semi-express, and suburban semi-express operations between Amagasaki Station and Kintetsu Nara Station. Hanshin Electric Railway The first character for Kobe ( 神 戸) and
9-749: The second character for Osaka (大 阪 ) combine to form the company name, 阪神, which can be read Han-shin . IC cards ( PiTaPa and ICOCA ) are accepted when taking trains. Hanshin Electric Railway owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, whose home ground is Hanshin Koshien Stadium in front of Kōshien Station of the railway's Main Line. One of the company's subsidiaries is the Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link, that operates
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