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, a team in the Japanese Baseball League. From 1950 to 1972, the company owned the Lions (in 1950, known as the Clippers), a Pacific League baseball team. The company introduced nimoca, a

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ticketing system, in May 2008.

Routes

Nishi-Nippon Railroad operates four railway lines:

( standard-gauge)

* Tenjin Ōmuta Line - linking Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka and Ōmuta Station in Ōmuta (74.8 km) * Dazaifu Line - linking Nishitetsu Futsukaichi Station in Chikushino, Goto, and Dazaifu Station in Dazaifu (2.4 km) * Amagi Line - linking

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in Kurume and

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in Amagi, passing through Tachiarai (17.9 km)

( narrow-gauge)

* Kaizuka Line - linking Kaizuka Station in

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, and Nishitetsu Shingū Station in Shingū (11.0 km) Major local bus routes extend to

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and serve other municipalities in the prefecture. Long-haul routes carry traffic to other prefectures in Kyushu, across the Kanmon Straits to Shimonoseki, and serve Osaka, Nagoya, and

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in Tokyo.

Real estate investment

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