Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway
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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.
Lines
Kobe Rapid Railway owns two lines.
- Tozai Line(east-west)
- Namboku Line(north-south)
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 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.
Tozai Line and Namboku Line
The company does not run its own services on these lines, but provides the necessary infrastructure for four private railway lines (
The company operated and administered the stations on the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line (except for
Hokushin Line
The Hokushin Line was formerly owned by the operator
Unlike the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line stations, the stations of the Hokushin Line are operated and administrated by Hokushin Kyuko (
References
- Kobe-shi. May 27, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
External links
- Official site (in Japanese)