The Shintetsu Kobe Kosoku Line (神戸電鉄神戸高速線 ''Kōbe Dentetsu Kōbe Kōsoku sen'') is one of two lines owned by the Kobe Rapid Transit Railway (0.4 km). It is operated by

Kobe_Electric_Railway , often called , is a Japanese private railway A private railway is a railroad run by a private business entity (usually a corporation but not need be), as opposed to a railroad run by a public sector. Japan In Japan, , commonly simply ''priva ...

and has only two stations. This short stretch of track, opened in 1968 is important as it connects the Arima Line to Shinkaichi, allowing Shintetsu passengers to transfer directly to Hankyū and

Hanshin , derived from the second kanji from and the first kanji from (but in ''on''-reading instead of ''kun''-reading), refers generally to Osaka, Kobe, and the surrounding area in the Kansai region of Japan. In the context of a region of Hyōgo ...

trains bound for Kobe Sannomiya and Umeda (Osaka), and Sanyo line trains bound for Himeji. As it is only used by Shintetsu rolling stock, the line is

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

List of stations on the Kobe Kosoku Line

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia Railway lines in Japan Transport in Kobe {{Japan-rail-line-stub