Ohmi Railway

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Ohmi Railway Co., Ltd. (近江鉄道株式会社, Ōmi Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a Japanese private railway company that operates in Shiga Prefecture, and a subsidiary of the Seibu Group holding company which also owns Seibu Railway. The company is named after the Ōmi Province, the former name of the present-day Shiga Prefecture.

[edit] Lines

Ohmi Railway consists of three lines: the Main Line, and two branch lines, the Yōkaichi Line and the Taga Line.

The Main Line connects with the Tōkaidō Main Line, the Hokuriku Main Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen at Maibara, and the Kusatsu Line and the Shigaraki Kōgen Railway at Kibukawa. The Yōkaichi Line connects with the Tōkaidō Main Line (Biwako Line) at Ōmi-Hachiman.

• Main Line (本線) (Maibara - Kibukawa)
• Taga Line (多賀線) (Takamiya - Taga Taisha-mae)
• Yōkaichi Line (八日市線) (Yōkaichi - Ōmi-Hachiman)

The company also operates an aerial lift.

• Hachimanyama Ropeway (八幡山ロープウェー)

[edit] External links

• Ohmi Railway Group (Japanese)