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Keihan Electric Railway

 

Keihan Electric Railway


Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (京阪電気鉄道株式会社, Keihan Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese railway network in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. It is known as "Keihan Dentetsu" (京阪電鉄) or "Keihan Densha" (京阪電車).

The name Keihan is derived from the words Kyoto and Osaka in Japanese. The characters for Kyoto are 京都 and Osaka's are 大阪. If you take the first character from Kyoto and the second from Osaka you get 京阪 which can be read Keihan.

Lines

  • Keihan Line (京阪線)
  • *Keihan Main Line (京阪本線)
  • *Oto Line (鴨東線)
  • *Katano Line (交野線)
  • *Uji Line (宇治線)
  • Otsu Line (大津線)
  • *Keishin Line (京津線)
  • *Ishiyama Sakamoto Line (石山坂本線)
  • Cable Line (鋼索線, Otokoyama Cable, 男山ケーブル)



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