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 Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway head office | |
Native name | 神戸高速鉄道株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Kōbe kōsoku-tetsudō |
| Company type | Subsidiary (Kabushiki gaisha) |
| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | 2 October 1958 |
| Parent | Hankyu andHanshin Electric Railway (25.86% each) (Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group) |
| Website | Official website |
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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 centralKobe,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 is aCategory-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) andSanyo Electric Railway Main Line (Sanyo) to be able to run trains through Kobe.
The company operated and administered the stations on the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line (except forSannomiya Station operated by Hankyu,Motomachi Station operated by Hanshin,Nishidai Station operated by Sanyo andMinatogawa 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 was formerly owned by the operatorHokushin 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) andKobe Municipal Subway (Shin-Kobe Station). On 1 June 2020, the operation of the line was transferred toKobe Municipal Subway.[1]
Source: www.jametro.or.jp/en/japan/ "Subways in Japan" (Japan Subway Association) | |
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| Shinkansen | |
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 JR West | |
 Osaka Metro | |
 Kobe Municipal Subway | |
 Kyoto Municipal Subway | |
 Hankyu | |
 Hanshin | |
 Keihan | |
 Nankai | |
 Kintetsu | |
 Shintetsu | |
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| Light metros and monorails | |
| Tram and light rails |
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| Hinterland | |
| Funiculars andaerial lifts | |
| Public ferries |
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| Miscellaneous | |
Rapid transit in Asia | |
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 Armenia | |
 Azerbaijan | |
 Bangladesh | |
 China (PRC) |
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 Georgia | |
 India | |
 Indonesia | |
 Iran | |
 Israel | |
 Japan | |
 Kazakhstan | |
 Mongolia | |
 North Korea | |
 Malaysia | |
 Pakistan | |
 Philippines | |
 Qatar | |
 Russia | |
 Saudi Arabia | |
 Singapore | |
 South Korea | |
 Taiwan (ROC) | |
 Thailand | |
 Turkey | |
 United Arab Emirates | |
 Uzbekistan | |
 Vietnam | |
* Under construction. | |
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