| Port Liner | |||
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 Kobe New Transit 2020 series | |||
| Overview | |||
| Owner | Kobe New Transit | ||
| Locale | Kobe | ||
| Termini | |||
| Stations | 12 | ||
| Service | |||
| Type | Automated guideway transit | ||
| Rolling stock | 2000 series, 2020 series | ||
| History | |||
| Opened | February 5, 1981 | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 10.8 km (6.71 mi) | ||
| Electrification | 600 V 60 Hz 3-phase ACThird rail | ||
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ThePort Island Line (ポートアイランド線,Pōtoairando-sen), commonly known asPort Liner (ポートライナー,Pōtorainā) is an urbanautomated guideway transit (AGT) system inKobe,Japan, operated byKobe New Transit.
The initial system linkedSannomiya Station, Kobe's main transit hub, to the man-madePort Island, covering a distance of 6.4 km (4.0 mi) with 9 stations.
As the map indicates, the present system consists of one straight line, originating at Sannomiya Station and terminating at Kobe Airport Station, and a loop attached to the middle of the straight line. The stations on the former are numbered with prefix "P" and on the latter (except those shared with the former) are with prefix "PL".
The main section between Sannomiya and the airport is entirelydouble track, but the remaining of the loop has not been rebuilt so that the three stations withPL prefix still serve only one way.
All stations are located inChūō-ku, Kobe.
| Station | km | Transfers | ||
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| Double track section | ||||
| P01 | Sannomiya | 三宮 | 0.0 |  HankyuKōbe Main Line/Kobe Kosoku Line (Kobe-Sannomiya Station, HK16) Hanshin Electric RailwayMain Line (Kobe-Sannomiya, HS32) Kobe Municipal SubwaySeishin-Yamate Line (Sannomiya, S03) Kobe Municipal SubwayKaigan Line (Sannomiya-Hanadokeimae Station, K01) JR WestJR Kobe Line (Sannomiya, JR-A61) |
| P02 | Bōeki Center | 貿易センター | 0.8 | |
| P03 | Port Terminal | ポートターミナル | 1.8 | |
| P04 | Naka Kōen | 中公園 | 2.8 | for Naka-Futo |
| P05 | Minatojima | みなとじま | 3.3 | |
| P06 | Shimin Hiroba | 市民広場 | 3.8 | for Naka-Futo (through service to Sannomiya) |
| P07 | Iryō Center | 医療センター | 4.6 | |
| P08 | Keisan Kagaku Center | 計算科学センター | 5.4 | |
| P09 | Kobe Airport | 神戸空港 | 8.2 | |
| Single Track Section | ||||
| P06 | Shimin-Hiroba | 市民広場 | 0.0 | for Kobe Airport/Sannomiya |
| PL07 | Minami Kōen | 南公園 | 0.6 | |
| PL08 | Naka Futō | 中埠頭 | 1.2 | |
| PL09 | Kita Futō | 北埠頭 | 1.7 | |
| P04 | Naka-Kōen | 中公園 | 2.6 | for Kobe Airport/Sannomiya (through service) |
Opened in 1981, the Port Liner was the world's firstdriverless urban transit system,[1] more than two years ahead of theVAL system used on theLille Metro, which opened in 1983.
Originally, before the 2006 extension to the airport, the loop section wassingle track and operated only counter-clockwise trains.
On 2 February 2006, the line was extended by 4.3 km (2.7 mi) to the newKobe Airport, built on an artificial island near Port Island.[2]
In an announcement in 2018, a proposal was made to extend the Port Island Line to 8-car operation following an increase in ridership.[3]
Minatojima Station, Iryō Center Station and K Computer Mae Stations were renamed on July 1, 2011, from Shimin Byōin Mae Station, Sentan Iryō Center Mae Station and Port Island Minami Station respectively.[4] Following the decommissioning ofK computer, K Computer Mae station was again renamed as Keisan Kagaku Center station in June 2021.[5]
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 Osaka Metro | |
 Kobe Municipal Subway | |
 Kyoto Municipal Subway | |
 Hankyu | |
 Hanshin | |
 Keihan | |
 Nankai | |
 Kintetsu | |
 Shintetsu | |
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| Light metros and monorails | |
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| Public ferries |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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