Nose Railway
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Nose Railway (能勢電 noseden, Corporate name: Nose Electric Railway Co., Ltd., 能勢電鉄株式会社) is a Japanese private railway which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka area to Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station in Kawanishi, Hyōgo where one can transfer to Hankyu Railway to complete a trip into Osaka.
Nose Railway uses the same type of trademark maroon train as Hankyu Railway, and hence runs on the same 1500 V and standard gauge rail.
The Nose Railway consists of one line with a one-station branch to Nissei-Chūō.
There are three types of train:
- Locals serve the Myoken-(main)-Line through to Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station as well as shuttle and direct service to Nissei-Chūō Station.
- Expresses skip the first half of the line and continue to either terminal. Express Stations are marked with a (x).
- Nissei-Express trains give a limited express service on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line from Umeda Station, then switch to the Nose line and run as expresses to Nissei-Chūō Station; these only run at commuting times, and use a separate platform (number 6) at Umeda.
[edit] Myoken-Line
- (x)Kawanishi-Noseguchi (transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line)
- Kinunobebashi
- Takiyama
- Uguisunomori
- Tsuzumigataki
- Tada
- (x)Hirano
- (x)Ichinotorii (skipped by Nissei-bound expresses)
- (x)Uneno
- (x)Yamashita (transfer for Nissei-Shuttle trains, root of branch to (x)Nissei-Chūō)
- (x)Sasabe
- (x)Kofudai
- (x)Tokiwadai
- (x)Myokenguchi
Nose is pronounced like "no say" in Japanese.
