近鉄
Short for 近畿日本電気鉄道
Kinki Nippon Denki Tetsudô (
Kinki Nippon Electric Railway), Kintetsu is a major private railway network in the Kinki region of
Japan, connecting
Osaka,
Kyoto,
Nara,
Nagoya, and everything in between. They began service in 1910 with a single 30-km line connecting Osaka and Nara, and since then have become absolutely colossal, opening a chain of
department stores at their major terminals, and starting their own baseball franchise, the
Kintetsu Buffaloes.
The main Kintetsu lines are: