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Keihan Electric Railway

Logo: 京阪電気鉄道, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese railway company

The Keihan Electric Railway Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 京阪電気鉄道株式会社, Hepburn: Keihan Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), known colloquially as the "Keihan Dentetsu" (京阪電鉄), "Keihan Densha" (京阪電車), or simply "Keihan" (京阪), is a major Japanese private railway operator in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. The transit network includes seven lines; four main lines with heavy rolling stock, two interurban lines, and a funicular railway. It is a subsidiary of Keihan Holdings, Ltd. (TYO: 9045).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Dec 1, 1949Founded1
  • Industrypublic transport1
  • HeadquartersOsaka Merchandise Mart Building1
  • Founded inOsaka1
  • Websitewww.keihan.co.jp/travel
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1

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Keihan Electric Railway Linemap
Photo: ButuCC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The Keihan Electric Railway Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 京阪電気鉄道株式会社, Hepburn: Keihan Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), known colloquially as the "Keihan Dentetsu" (京阪電鉄), "Keihan Densha" (京阪電車), or simply "Keihan" (京阪), is a major Japanese private railway operator in Osaka, Kyoto, and Shiga Prefectures. The transit network includes seven lines; four main lines with heavy rolling stock, two interurban lines, and a funicular railway.2

Corporate structure

Keihan Electric Railway is part of a group headed by Keihan Holdings. 17 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Keihan started its operation between Osaka and Kyoto in 1910. It was the first electric railway to connect these two cities, and the first line on the left bank of Yodo River. Keihan later purchased the lines in the Ōtsu area (Ōtsu Lines).

In the 1920s, Keihan built another Osaka-Kyoto line through its subsidiary Shinkeihan Railway (新京阪鉄道, Shin-keihan-tetsudō), which merged into Keihan in 1930. This line is now known as the Hankyu Kyoto Line.

In 1943, with the power given by the Land Transport Business Coordination Act (陸上交通事業調整法, rikujō-kōtsū-jigyō-chōsei-hō) (Act No. 71 of 1938), the wartime government of Japan forced Keihan to merge with Hanshin Kyūkō Railway to form Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway (京阪神急行電鉄, Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu). In 1949, the pre-war Keihan operations, except for Shinkeihan lines, were restored to independence under the original corporate name. Keihanshin Kyūkō Railway later changed their name to the present Hankyu Railway.

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

Products and brands

Keihan also operates (through its subsidiaries) other businesses such as bus, taxi, water bus, hotel, department store and amusement park, mainly in the area along its railway system.

Keihan Cable Line

Keihan Bus

Osaka Suijo Bus

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

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Oct 1, 2008Acquired Otsu Daiichi Koutsu1

Timeline

  1. Dec 1, 1949Founded Founded in Osaka1

Sources

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