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Train routes operated by Nankai Electric Railway
2 routes · scenic 1 · mountain 1
Nankai Electric Railway runs 2 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 64.8 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the GRAN Tenku at 64 km; the fastest is the GRAN Tenku, running up to 100 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1930.
The company itself dates to 1884, filed on Wikidata as a major railway company. What this page says about the company comes from Nankai Electric Railway's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q1188230 ↗
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- 2
- Total length
- 64.8 km
- Countries
- Japan
- Fastest
- GRAN Tenku · 100 km/h
- Longest
- GRAN Tenku · 64 km
- Oldest line here
- 1930
- Company founded
- 1884
- Type
- major railway company
Scenic (1)
- GRAN Tenku
Nankai’s deep-red 2026 flagship runs through from Namba’s neon to Gokurakubashi, grinding up 50‰ cedar slopes to the cable car for sacred Koyasan — lounge and bar aboard.
Wikipedia (JA) ↗
Mountain (1)
- Koyasan Cable Car
Nankai’s 1930 cable car hoists pilgrims up the final 328 m to UNESCO-listed Kōyasan, the mountaintop monastery town of Shingon Buddhism.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Nankai Electric Railway run?
2 of the routes in this atlas are Nankai Electric Railway services, covering 64.8 km across 1 country (Japan). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Nankai Electric Railway train?
The GRAN Tenku, Osaka (Namba) to Gokurakubashi, at up to 100 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 1 h 30 min over 64 km.
Does Nankai Electric Railway run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 2 Nankai Electric Railway routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Nankai Electric Railway founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1884, and files it as a major railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1930 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Nankai Electric Railway runs in
- 🇯🇵 Train routes in Japan 78 routes
Other operators in Japan
- JR East 15 routes
- JR West 12 routes
- JR Kyushu 9 routes
- JR Hokkaido 4 routes
- JR Shikoku 4 routes
- Kintetsu Railway 4 routes
- JR Central 3 routes