Lines of Kinki Nippon Railway - Kintetsu Nagoya Line, Kintetsu Yamada Line, Kintetsu Osaka Line, Kintetsu Shima Line, Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Chapters: Kintetsu Nagoya Line, Kintetsu Yamada Line, Kintetsu Osaka Line, Kintetsu Shima Line, Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line, Kintetsu Toba Line, Kintetsu Nara Line, Kintetsu Utsube Line, Kintetsu Yunoyama Line, Kintetsu Kyoto Line, Kintetsu Hachi ji Line, Kintetsu Suzuka Line, Kintetsu Nagano Line, Kintetsu Kashihara Line, Sangi Railway Hokusei Line, Kintetsu Yoshino Line, Kintetsu Ikoma Cable Line, Kintetsu D my ji Line, Kintetsu Ikoma Line, Kintetsu Keihanna Line, Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line, Yumehanna, Kintetsu Namba Line, Kintetsu Tenri Line, Kintetsu Gose Line, Kintetsu Shigi Line. Excerpt: The Nagoya Line Nagoya-sen) is a railway line of a Japanese private railway company Kintetsu, connecting Nagoya and Ise Nakagawa Station in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture via Kuwana, Yokkaichi, Suzuka, Tsu municipalities along the Ise Bay. The official origin of the line is Ise-Nakagawa and the end is Nagoya, however, operationally trains "down" from and "up" to Nagoya. The line is parallel to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) Kansai Main Line, then Ise Railway, again JR Central Kisei Main Line, three together offer rapid service from Nagoya to Ise. At Ise-Nakagawa, the line has connections to Osaka Line to Uehommachi and Kintetsu Namba Stations of downtown Osaka, and to Yamada Line to Ujiyamada Station and beyond Toba Station on Yamada Line and Kashikojima Station of Shima Line, to provide touristic access to scenic Shima Penisnsula and Ise Shrine. Part of the line was first built and opened in 1915 onward by an independent railway operator Ise Electric Railway Ise Denki Testud) with rail gauge 1.067 m. After a complex history it was absorbed to Sang Kyk Electric Railway Sang Kyuk Dentetsu), a predecessor of Kintetsu. After the acquisition of a connection to Osaka, it had long been forcing passengers to change train...