is a railway line in

Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 () and has a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture ...

owned by

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...

. This line connects to the

Nankai Main Line The is one of the two main railway lines of Japanese private railway company Nankai Electric Railway, together with Kōya Line. The route is from Namba Station in south downtown of Osaka to Wakayamashi Station in Wakayama via Sakai, Izumiōtsu ...

. Starting on November 2014, it is referred to by the nickname "Kada Sakana Line" (加太さかな線).

History

The Kada Light Railway Co. opened the line in 1912, electrifying it at 1500 VDC in 1930. The company merged with Nankai in 1942, and freight services ceased in 1984.

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References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia {{Osaka transit Kada Line Rail transport in Wakayama Prefecture