Nankai Main Line
Nankai 1000 series EMU on local service
Overview
Native name	南海本線
Locale	Osaka Prefecture,Wakayama Prefecture
Termini	Namba Wakayamashi
Stations	43
Service
Operator(s)	Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
History
Opened	1885; 140 years ago (1885)
Last extension	1922
Closed	1993; 32 years ago (1993) (Tennoji Branch Line)
Technical
Line length	64.2 km (39.9 mi)
Number of tracks	Quad (Namba - Suminoe) Double (Suminoe - Wakayamashi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Old gauge	Namba—Sakai (Azumabashi):2 ft 9 in (838 mm) (1885—1897)
Electrification	1,500 V DC,overhead lines
Operating speed	110 km/h (68 mph)

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Legend
0.2 Namba -1980 0.0 Namba 1980- 0.9 Imamiyaebisu 1.4 Shin-Imamiya 2.0 Haginochaya Tennōji Branch Line 3.0 Tengachaya "Shiomibashi Line" (part of Kōya Line) 3.9 Kishinosato-Tamade 4.1 Tamade abandoned in 1993 consolidation to Kishinosato-Tamade Station Kōya Line 5.1 Kohama Hankai Tramway:Hankai Line Hankai Uemachi Line Sumiyoshi Sumiyoshikōen 5.7 Sumiyoshitaisha Sumiyoshi-Toriimae 6.5 Suminoe -1916 Suminoe Depot 6.7 Suminoe 1928- 7.4 Yamatogawa (first) -1888 Yamato River 7.8 Yamatogawa (second) 1889-1917 8.2 Shichidō Hankai Railway (later Osaka Municipal Tram Hankai Line) Sakai (first) -1955 9.8 Sakai (third) 1985- Tate River 10.0 Sakai (second) 1955-1985 Ōhama-kitamachi Ohama Branch Line 10.2 Ryujin abandoned in 1955 consolidation to Sakai Station Ōhama 11.2 Minato Dejima (Hankai Railway) 12.7 Ishizugawa Shimo-Ishizu (Hankai Railway) Ishizu River 13.8 Suwanomori Suwanohama Hankai Tramway: Hankai Line Left:Hamadera (Hankai Railway) Right:Kaidōbata Hamadera-ekimae 14.8 Hamaderakōen Hamaderakōen (Hankai) JR West:Hanwa Line ("Hagoromo Branch Line") 15.5 Hagoromo Higashi-Hagoromo Nankai Takashinohama Line 16.6 Takashinohama -1918 17.4 Takaishi 18.5 Kita-Sukematsu 19.4 Matsunohama 20.4 Izumiōtsu Otsu River 22.3 Tadaoka 23.7 Haruki Haruki River 25.0 Izumi-ōmiya 26.0 Kishiwada 26.9 Takojizō Tsuda River 28.6 Kaizuka Mizuma Line 30.4 Nishikinohama 31.3 Tsuruhara 32.4 Iharanosato Sano River 34.0 Izumisano Airport Line JR West:Kansai Airport Line 35.9 Rinkū Town Kansai Airport Bridge 42.8 Kansai Airport Kansai Airport 36.1 Hagurazaki Hagurazaki Depot 37.4 Yoshiminosato 38.8 Okadaura 40.6 Tarui 43.1 Ozaki 44.6 Tottorinoshō 46.6 Hakotsukuri 50.2 Tannowa 51.9 Misaki-kōen Tanagawa Line Fuke abandoned in 1958 56.3 Kyōshi ↑Osaka Prefecture Kyoshi Tunnel ↓Wakayama Prefecture 58.0 Wakayamadaigakumae Kada Kada Line 61.6 Kinokawa 62.5 Wakayama-kitaguchi -1903 Kinokawa River JR West:Kisei Main Line Wakayama Depot 64.2 Wakayamashi Wakayama Tram Line (Kainan Line) Kitajima Branch Line Wakayamakō Line 67.0 Wakayamakō
Details of Namba area Subway:Yotsubashi Line (Y15) Subway:Midōsuji Line (M20) Subway:Sennichimae Line (S16) Kintetsu Namba Line (Osaka Namba) Hanshin Namba Line (Osaka Namba) Namba Subway:Sakaisuji Line Subway:Daikokuchō Imamiyaenisu Hankai Tramway:Ebisuchō Hankai Line Osaka Loop Line,Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) Shin-Imamiya /Hankai:Minami-Kasumichō Subway:Midōsuji Line (M22) Subway:Dōbutsuen-mae Subway:Sakaisuji Line (K19) Haginochaya Hankai:Imaike Tengachaya Nankai Line (left)/Koya Line (right)

TheNankai Main Line (南海本線,Nankai Honsen) is one of the two main railway lines of Japaneseprivate railway companyNankai Electric Railway, together withKōya Line. The route is fromNamba Station in south downtown ofOsaka toWakayamashi Station inWakayama viaSakai,Izumiōtsu,Kishiwada,Kaizuka,Izumisano,Sennan,Hannan andMisaki municipalities. The proper name is with the company's name, "the Nankai Main Line", not simply "the Main Line" often seen in other Japanese private railways. Lines of the Nankai Main Lane and the connecting lines excluded the Kōya Line and the Airport Line are named generically "theNankai Line (南海線,Nankai Sen)". The line is shown with apictogram of waves, or distinguished with blue from conifer or green Kōya Line.

• Line length: 64.2 km (39.9 mi)
• Track: quadruple from Namba to Suminoe (to Kishinosato-Tamade, eastern two tracks are for Kōya Line exclusively), double from Suminoe to Wakayamashi

Nankai and Kintetsu are the only two private railway operators inKansai that offer charged Limited Express trains.

Limited ExpressSouthern (特急サザン,Tokkyū "Sazan")

Limited express trains named "Southern" are operated between Namba and Wakayamashi or Wakayamakō. They are operated with 8-car formations and 4 cars of 8 are charged for seat reservation. Trains to and from Wakayamakō connect to Nankai Ferry services to and from theShikoku region.

Airport Limited ExpressRapi:t (空港特急ラピート,Kūkō Tokkyū "Rapīto")

Airport limited express trains named "Rapi:t" are operated between Namba and Kansai Airport and exclusively with 50000 series 6-car formations. All cars are charged for seat reservation.Rapi:t α trains stop at only stations marked with S, andRapi:t β trains at stations marked with S and S*. They have been operated sinceKansai International Airport opened in 1994.

Express (急行,Kyūkō)

Express trains are operated between Namba and Wakayamashi or Wakayamakō before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m. on weekdays and in morning on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, and pass Haruki Station. They are operated with 6 or 8-car formations. The fourth car of 8-car trains for Namba is only for women in the morning until arriving at Tengachaya by 8:30 a.m. on weekdays.

Before November 26, 2005, operated all day, two per hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Airport Express (空港急行,Kūkō Kyūkō)

Airport express trains are operated between Namba and Kansai Airport all day and stop at Haruki. 4 trains are operated per direction per hour from 10 a.m. until 4 pm. They are operated with 6 or 8-car formations. The fourth car of 8-car trains for Namba is only for women in the morning until arriving at Tengachaya by 8:30 a.m. on weekdays.

Sub Express (区間急行,Kukan Kyūkō)

Sub express trains are operated between Namba and Hagurazaki, Misakikoen or Wakayamashi in the morning, evening, and night. They stop at airport express stations between Namba and Izumisano, and every station between Izumisano and Wakayamashi. Namba-bound trains are operated every morning and weekday rush hours in the evening.

Semi-Express (準急行,Jun Kyūkō)

Semi-express trains are operated from Hagurazaki or Haruki to Namba only on weekday mornings.

Local (普通,Futsū)

Local trains are operated between Namba and Wakayamashi all day. They also return to Namba at Hagurazaki, Tarui, Misakikōen or Kansai Airport in the rush hours and midnight. Only 1 northbound train is operated from Wakayamashi to Hagurazaki in the midnight. Trains pass Imamiyaebisu and Haginochaya stations due to absence of platforms on the tracks of the Nankai Line. Those stations are served by local trains of the Kōya Line.

In Japanese railway operation, "Futsū" (literally "ordinary, normal") and "Kakueki Teisha" (literally "train that stops at every station", "Kakutei" for short) are used interchangeably for trains that stop at every station. On the Nankai Railway alone, however, the two words are used for different classes of train. The former is for Locals of Nankai Main Line that do not stop at the above two stations, while the latter is for Kōya Line trains that do stop there, true to the meaning of the Japanese name of the service class.

• ● : Trains stop.
• ▲:Rapi:t α trains pass, β trains stop.
• ▼: At Haruki, Express trains marked with a white line makes a stop
• ◆: Trains stop in the off-peak hours from January 1 until 3 every year.
• ｜ ↑: All trains pass (Arrows indicate directions)
• Wakayamadaigakumae became one of the Southern stations on October 18, 2014.^[1]

Number	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)	Local	Semi-Express	Sub-Express	Airport Express	Express	Ltd. Exp.Southern	Ltd. Exp.Rapi:t	Transfers	Location
NK01	Namba	難波	0.0	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	Osaka Metro: Midosuji Line (M20) Yotsubashi Line (Y15) Sennichimae Line (S16)  A Kintetsu Namba Line (A01:Osaka Namba) Hanshin Namba Line (HS41: Osaka Namba) JR WestKansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) (JR-Q17:JR Namba)	Chūō-ku, Osaka	Osaka Prefecture
NK02	Imamiyaebisu	今宮戎	0.9	｜	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Naniwa-ku, Osaka
NK03	Shin-Imamiya	新今宮	1.5	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	JR West: Osaka Loop Line (JR-O19) Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) (JR-Q19) Osaka Metro (Dōbutsuen-mae Station): Midosuji Line (M22) Sakaisuji Line (K19) Hankai TramwayHankai Line (HN52: Shin-Imamiya-Ekimae Station)	Nishinari-ku, Osaka
NK04	Haginochaya	萩ノ茶屋	2.0	｜	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK05	Tengachaya	天下茶屋	3.0	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line (K20)
NK06	Kishinosato-Tamade	岸里玉出	3.9	●	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜	Koya Line Shiomibashi Line
NK07	Kohama	粉浜	5.1	●	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
NK08	Sumiyoshitaisha	住吉大社	5.7	●	↑	◆	◆	｜	｜	｜	Hankai Tramway: Uemachi Line (HN10: Sumiyoshi Station) Hankai Line (HN12: Sumiyoshitriimae Station)
NK09	Suminoe	住ノ江	6.7	●	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Suminoe-ku, Osaka
NK10	Shichidō	七道	8.2	●	↑	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Sakai-ku, Sakai
NK11	Sakai	堺	9.8	●	●	●	●	●	●	▲
NK12	Minato	湊	11.2	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK13	Ishizugawa	石津川	12.7	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Nishi-ku, Sakai
NK14	Suwanomori	諏訪ノ森	13.8	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK15	Hamaderakōen	浜寺公園	14.8	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜	Hankai Tramway Hankai Line (HN31: Hamadera-Ekimae Station)
NK16	Hagoromo	羽衣	15.5	●	●	●	●	●	｜	｜	Takashinohama Line JR WestHigashi-Hagoromo Branch Line (Higashi-Hagoromo Station)	Takaishi
NK17	Takaishi	高石	17.4	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK18	Kita-Sukematsu	北助松	18.5	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Izumiōtsu
NK19	Matsunohama	松ノ浜	19.5	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK20	Izumiōtsu	泉大津	20.4	●	●	●	●	●	｜	｜
NK21	Tadaoka	忠岡	22.3	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Tadaoka
NK22	Haruki	春木	23.7	●	●	●	●	▼	｜	｜		Kishiwada
NK23	Izumi-Ōmiya	和泉大宮	25.0	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK24	Kishiwada	岸和田	26.0	●	●	●	●	●	●	▲
NK25	Takojizō	蛸地蔵	26.9	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK26	Kaizuka	貝塚	28.6	●	●	●	●	●	｜	｜	Mizuma Railway Mizuma Line	Kaizuka
NK27	Nishikinohama	二色浜	30.4	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK28	Tsuruhara	鶴原	31.3	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Izumisano
NK29	Iharanosato	井原里	32.4	●	●	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
NK30	Izumisano	泉佐野	34.0	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	Nankai Airport Line (Through trains for Kansai Airport are available.)
Through service:				From Izumisano: Local / Airport Express / Limited ExpressRapi:t toNankai Airport Line forKansai Airport
NK33	Hagurazaki	羽倉崎	36.1	●	●	●		｜	｜			Izumisano	Osaka Prefecture
NK34	Yoshiminosato	吉見ノ里	37.4	●		●		｜	｜			Tajiri
NK35	Okadaura	岡田浦	38.8	●		●		｜	｜			Sennan
NK36	Tarui	樽井	40.6	●		●		｜	｜
NK37	Ozaki	尾崎	43.1	●		●		●	●			Hannan
NK38	Tottorinoshō	鳥取ノ荘	44.6	●		●		｜	｜
NK39	Hakotsukuri	箱作	46.6	●		●		｜	｜
NK40	Tannowa	淡輪	50.2	●		●		｜	｜			Misaki
NK41	Misaki-kōen	みさき公園	51.9	●		●		●	●		Tanagawa Line
NK42	Kyōshi	孝子	56.3	●		●		｜	｜
NK43	Wakayamadaigakumae (Fujitodai)	和歌山大学前 （ふじと台）	58.0	●		●		●	●			Wakayama	Wakayama Prefecture
NK44	Kinokawa	紀ノ川	61.6	●		●		｜	｜		Kada Line (Kada Sakana Line)
NK45	Wakayamashi	和歌山市	64.2	●		●		●	●		Wakayamako Line JR WestKisei Main Line
Through service:				From Wakayamashi: Express (weekdays only) / Limited ExpressSouthern toWakayamako Line forWakayamako

Listed counterclockwise: All stations are in the city ofOsaka,Osaka Prefecture.

• 9000 series exclusively forSouthern (non-reserved car)
• 8300 series (from Autumn 2015) exclusively forSouthern (non-reserved car, from December 2020)
• 8000 series exclusively forSouthern (non-reserved car)
• 7100 series exclusively forSouthern (non-reserved car)
• 7000 series (until October 2015)
• 2000 series
• 1000 series
• 10000 series exclusively forSouthern (reserved car)
• 12000 series exclusively forSouthern (reserved car)
• 50000 series exclusively forrapi:t
• 3000 series
• Semboku 5000 series
• Semboku 7000 series
• Semboku 7020 series

One of the oldest private railway lines still existing, the2 ft 9 in (838 mm) gauge Namba - Yamatogawa (since closed) section was opened in 1885 by Hankai Railway (阪堺鉄道,Hankai Tetsudō) (separate from the present-dayHankai Tramway).^[2] The line was extended to Sakai in 1888, and the Namba - Sumiyoshitaisha section was duplicated in 1892.

In 1897 the then separate Nankai Railway opened the Sakai - Sano (present-day Izumisano) section as 1067mm gauge, with the Namba - Sano section regauged to match, and the Sumiyoshitaisha - Sano section duplicated the same year. The following year the Hankai Co. merged with Nankai Railway, and the line was extended to Wakayama. The present line to Wakayamashi was completed in 1903, and in 1906 the first dining car on a private railway in Japan was introduced on the Wakayama express.

The duplication of the line extended to Hamaderakoen in 1907, Kaizuka in 1911, Takako in 1915 and to Wakayama in 1922.

Electrification at 600 VDC began in 1907 on the section from Namba to Hamaderakōen, and was completed in 1911. The voltage was increased to 1500 VDC in 1973.

• Tengachaya station - A 2 km line to Tennoji opened in 1900. In 1933 the line was electrified at 1500 VDC, the line closing in 1984.
• Sakai station - A 2 km 1435mm gauge line from Shukuin to Ohama, electrified at 600 VDC, opened by the BanSakai Electric Railway Co. in 1912 (and acquired by Nankai in 1914) connected at this station until closed in 1949.
• Wakayama station - A 3 km line to Higashi-Matsue on theNankai Kada Line opened in 1912. The line was electrified at 600 VDC in 1930, and closed in 1955.

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

• 1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
• 2 ft 9 in gauge railways
• Lines of Nankai Electric Railway
• Rail transport in Osaka Prefecture
• Rail transport in Wakayama Prefecture
• Railway lines opened in 1885

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