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Kōbe Municipal Subway and Hokushin Kyūkō Railway
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Prefectures on this page: Hyōgo  
Lines on this page
Railway Line Linetype
Hokushin Kyūkō HokushinNon JR railway
Kōbe Subway KaiganMetro (Subway)

Seishin-YamateMetro (Subway)
Hokushin Kyūkō 北神急行電鉄  Hokushin Kyūkō Dentetsu     Hokushin Kyūkō Railway
Main owners: Hankyū Railway (27.5%) and Kōbe Electric Railway (19.875%).
The company only operates the railway. Due to a financial crisis in 2002, the railway infrastructure was sold to Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway

Hokushin 北神線 1435 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Kōbe
Kōbe - Sannomiya
Opened1988TracksDouble track
The line is an extension of the Kōbe subway - but not owned by Kobe City. Most of the line is underground.
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Tanigami Shintetsu: Arima 0.0 Kōbe-shi Hyōgo
Map Map Shin-Kōbe JR West: Sanyō Shinkansen, Kōbe Subway: Seishin-Yamate 7.5 Kōbe-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Oct 26, 2011
Origin - Major stops - DestinationDaytime
frequency		Fastest
train		Average
speed
Tanigami - Shin-Kōbe - Seishin-chūō Every 15 min or better40 min45 km/h

Kōbe Subway 神戸市交通局  Kōbe-shi Kōtsū Kyoku     Kōbe City Transportation Bureau

Kaigan 海岸線 Metro (Subway)      1435 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages:
Wadamisaki
Kōbe - Sannomiya
Sannomiya
Opened2001TracksDouble track
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Sannomiya Hanadokei-mae Kōbe New Transit: Port Island (Portliner) [Sannomiya], Hankyū: Kōbe (Kōbe Hon) [Sannomiya], Hanshin: Hon [Sannomiya],
JR West: Tōkaidō Hon (Maibara - Kōbe) [Sannomiya], Kōbe Subway: Seishin-Yamate [Sannomiya], Kōbe Rapid: Tōzai (Hankyū Sannomiya - Nishidai) [Sannomiya] 		0.0 Kōbe-shi Hyōgo
Map Map Harborland JR West: Tōkaidō Hon (Maibara - Kōbe) [Kōbe], JR West: Sanyō Hon [Kōbe] 2.3 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Wadamisaki JR West: Sanyō Hon (Wadamisaki) 4.6 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Misakikōen
5.7 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Shin-Nagata JR West: Sanyō Hon, Kōbe Subway: Seishin-Yamate 7.9 Kōbe-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Oct 26, 2011
Origin - DestinationDaytime
frequency		Fastest
train		Average
speed
Sannomiya-hanadokeimae - Shin-NagataVery frequent (Every 10 min or better)14 min34 km/h


Seishin-Yamate 西神・山手線 Metro (Subway)      1435 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages:
Kōbe
Wadamisaki
Myōdani Kōbe - Sannomiya
Sannomiya
Opened1977 - 1987TracksDouble track
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Shin-Kōbe Hokushin Kyūkō: Hokushin, JR West: Sanyō Shinkansen 0.0 Kōbe-shi Hyōgo
Map Map Sannomiya Kōbe New Transit: Port Island (Portliner), Hankyū: Kōbe (Kōbe Hon), Hanshin: Hon,
JR West: Tōkaidō Hon (Maibara - Kōbe), Kōbe Subway: Kaigan [Sannomiya Hanadokei-mae], Kōbe Rapid: Tōzai (Hankyū Sannomiya - Nishidai) 		1.3 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Minatogawa-kōen Shintetsu: Arima [Minatogawa], Kōbe Rapid: Namboku [Minatogawa] 4.3 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Nagata Kōbe Rapid: Tōzai (Hankyū Sannomiya - Nishidai) [Kōsoku-Nagata] 6.1 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Shin-Nagata JR West: Sanyō Hon, Kōbe Subway: Kaigan 7.6 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Itayado Sanyō Dentetsu: Hon 8.8 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Myōdani
13.3 Kōbe-shi
Map Map Seishin-chūō
22.7 Kōbe-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Oct 26, 2011
Origin - Major stops - DestinationDaytime
frequency		Fastest
train		Average
speed
Tanigami - Shin-Kōbe - Seishin-chūō Every 15 min or better40 min45 km/h
Shin-Kōbe - Seishin-chūō Every 15 min or better33 min41 km/h

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This page is updated Dec 12, 2011