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Nankai Electric Railway

Logo: 南海電気鉄道, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese railway company

Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (南海電気鉄道株式会社, Nankai denki tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name Nankai (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates all the electric railways in the Tokyo region.2 Its shares trade on Tokyo Stock Exchange under the symbol 9044.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1884Founded1

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  • Ticker9044 on Tokyo Stock Exchange1
  • Industrypublic transport1
  • HeadquartersShikijin East1
  • Founded inKudoyama1
  • Websitewww.howto-osaka.com
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1

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NANKAI Namba No.1 Building
Photo: Tokumeigakarinoaoshima, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (南海電気鉄道株式会社, Nankai denki tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name Nankai (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates all the electric railways in the Tokyo region.2

Corporate structure

Nankai Electric Railway is part of a group headed by Nankai. 14 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Nankai Electric Railway reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The Nankai Railway Company was founded on June 16, 1884. In 1944 it was one of the companies that merged to form Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. (Kin-nichi, present Kintetsu Railway). However, Kin-nichi transferred the former Nankai Railway Company's lines to the present Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (named Koyasan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. from March 28, 1925 until March 14, 1947) on June 1, 1947.

From 1938 to 1988, Nankai Electric Railway owned the Nankai Hawks, a team in Nippon Professional Baseball that was based in Osaka. The team was sold to Daiei after the 1988 season and moved to Fukuoka and rechristened the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. The team was sold again in 2005 to SoftBank, and are now the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

On November 1, 2024, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) approved the merger of Nankai Electric Railway and its subsidiary Semboku Rapid Railway, effective April 1, 2025.

From Wikipedia’s article on Nankai Electric Railway, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Hankai Railway1
  2. Succeeded Kōyasan Electric Railway1

Timeline

  1. 1884Founded Founded in Kudoyama1

Sources

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