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Keihan Department Store
In Japanese, Keihan may refer to: * , the Kyoto-Osaka area, part of the larger area. * , a Kyoto-Osaka train line, often abbreviated to Keihan. * , a local dish of the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keihanshin
is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population () of 19,302,746 over an area of .Japan Statistics Bureau - "2015 Census", retrieved June 27, 2021 It is the second-most-populated urban region in Japan (after the ), containing approximately 15% of Japan's population. The |
Keihan Electric Railway
, known colloquially as the , , or simply , is a major Japanese private railway operator in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. The transit network includes seven lines; four main lines with heavy rolling stock, two interurban lines, and a funicular railway. It is subsidiary of Keihan Holdings, Ltd. (). History Keihan started its operation between Osaka and Kyoto in 1910. It was the first electric railway to connect these two cities, and the first line on the left bank of Yodo River. Keihan later purchased the lines in the Ōtsu area (Ōtsu Lines). In the 1920s, Keihan built another Osaka-Kyoto line through its subsidiary , which merged into Keihan in 1930. This line is now known as the Hankyu Kyoto Line. In 1943, with the power given by the (Act No. 71 of 1938), the wartime government of Japan forced Keihan to merge with Hanshin Kyūkō Railway to form . In 1949, the pre-war Keihan operations, except for Shinkeihan lines, restored independence under the original corporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
