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 Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whi ...

(0.4 km). It is operated by

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and has only two stations. This short stretch of track, opened in 1968 is important as it connects the Arima Line to

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, 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

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trains bound for Himeji. As it is only used by Shintetsu rolling stock, the line is narrow gauge.

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