Keihanna Line

The Keihanna Line (けいはんな線) is a railway line operated by Kintetsu Railway. There are through trains to the Chūō Line of Osaka Municipal Subway. The line name derives from a kanji acronym formed from Kyoto (京都), Osaka (大阪), and Nara (奈良), but the name is written in hiragana.

The line is the sole Kintetsu line with a third rail electrification system. Before 2015, it was the only Kintetsu line that had station numbers (the station numbers coming from the Chūō Line).

History

 * 16 September 1977 - Higashi-Osaka Ikoma Railway Co. (東大阪生駒鉄道) was founded.
 * 1 April 1986 - Kintetsu merged with Higashi-Osaka Ikoma Railway Co.
 * 1 October 1986 - The Higashi-Osaka Line (東大阪線) from Nagata to Ikoma was opened and through operation to Osakako on the Chūō Line was started.
 * 18 December 1997 - The through operation was extended to Cosmosquare.
 * 28 July 1998 - Nara Ikoma Rapid Transit Railway Co., Ltd. (奈良生駒高速鉄道株式会社) was founded.
 * October 2000 - The construction of the Keihanna New Line (京阪奈新線) started.
 * 31 January 2005 - The Keihanna New Line extension was officially named the "Keihanna Line (けいはんな線)".
 * 27 March 2006 - The line from Ikoma to Gakken Nara-Tomigaoka was opened and the Higashi-Osaka Line was renamed the Keihanna Line.