| Nankai Kōya Line |
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Limited Express "Rinkan"
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| Line length: |
64.5 km |
| Gauge: |
1067 mm |
| Voltage: |
1500 = |
| Maximum speed: |
100 km/h |
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The Kōya Line (高野線, Kōya-sen?) of Nankai Electric Railway is a railway line in Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It connects Osaka and Koyasan, the capital of Japanese Buddhist sect Shingon, via suburbs of Osaka, such as Sakai, Osakasayama, Tondabayashi and Kawachinagano in Osaka Prefecture and Hashimoto and Kōya in Wakayama Prefecture.
From historical reason formally the line begins at Shiomibashi Station in Osaka and crosses the Nankai Main Line, the other main line of the company, at Kishinosato-Tamade Station, though operationally it starts at Namba Station together with Nankai Main Line, diverges at Kishinosato-Tamade Station and goes to Gokurakubashi Station, to have a connection to Koyasan through Nankai Cable Line.
The section from Shiomibashi to Kishinosato-Tamade, called Shiomibashi Line, has trains operated only in between.
The section from Namba to Hashimoto of the line is formally nicknamed "the Rinkan Sun Line (りんかんサンライン, the Rinkan Sun Line?)" which few know.
Kōya Line is indicated, to distinguish from Nankai Lines, with pictograms of coniferous-like trees which infer Mount Koya, or with the line colour, green.
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