Nose Electric Railway
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Nose Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (能勢電鉄株式会社 Nose Dentetsu?), occasionally abbreviated as Nose Railway or Noseden (能勢電?), is a Japanese private railway company headquartered in Kawanishi,
which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka area to Kawanishi-noseguchi Station in Kawanishi, Hyōgo where one can transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line to Osaka.
Noseden is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hankyu Railway. A rush-hour special express train, the Nissei Limited Express, runs from Nissei Chūō Station to Umeda Station, the terminal of Hankyu in Osaka, in the morning and back again at nights for commuters.
Noseden uses second-hand EMUs of Hankyu. Noseden's series 1500, 1700 and 3100 cars are originally Hankyu's 2100, 2000 and 3100 series respectively. The trains run on a standard gauge rail.
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[edit] Lines and Stations
Noseden has two lines:
- Myōken Line (Kawanishi-Noseguchi - Myōkenguchi)
- Nissei Line (Yamashita - Nissei Chūō)
The former is the main route and the latter branches off at Yamashita Station.
In addition to the railway, Noseden operates a funicular (Myōken Cable) and a chairlift (Myōken Lift).
[edit] Myōken Line and Nissei Line
- S: Trains stop; |, ↑: Trains pass; ↑: Only one direction
- Myōken Express (妙見急行 Myoken Kyūkō?) trains are perated from Myōkenguchi to Kawanishi-noseguchi in the morning on weekdays and Saturdays
- Nissei Express (日生急行 Nissei Kyūkō?) are from Nissei Chūō to Kawanishi-noseguchi in the morning on Saturdays
- Local (普通 Futsū?) trains are operated all day every day
- Limited Express (特急日生エクスプレス Tokkyū Nissei Express?) trains run from Nissei Chūō to Umeda in the morning, and vice versa in the evening on weekdays.
| Station | Distance (km) | Local 普通 |
Myōken Express 妙見急行 |
Nissei Express 日生急行 |
Limited Express 特急日生エクスプレス |
Connection | Location | |
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| Myoken Line | ||||||||
| Up to | Umeda (Hankyu) | |||||||
| Kawanishi-noseguchi 川西能勢口 |
0.0 | S | S | S | S | Kawanishi | Hyōgo Prefecture | |
| Kinunobebashi 絹延橋 |
1.2 | S | ↑ | ↑ | | | |||
| Takiyama 滝山 |
2.1 | S | ↑ | ↑ | | | |||
| Uguisunomori 鶯の森 |
2.7 | S | ↑ | ↑ | | | |||
| Tsuzumigataki 鼓滝 |
3.5 | S | ↑ | ↑ | | | |||
| Tada 多田 |
4.2 | S | ↑ | ↑ | | | |||
| Hirano 平野 |
5.2 | S | S | S | S | |||
| Ichinotorii 一の鳥居 |
6.4 | S | S | ↑ | | | |||
| Uneno 畦野 |
7.1 | S | S | S | S | |||
| Yamashita 山下 |
8.2 | S | S | S | S |
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| Sasabe 笹部 |
8.6 | S | S | Nissei Line | Nissei Line | |||
| Kōfūdai 光風台 |
10.3 | S | S | Toyono, Toyono District | Osaka Prefecture | |||
| Tokiwadai ときわ台 |
11.2 | S | S | |||||
| Myōkenguchi 妙見口 |
12.2 | S | S |
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| Nissei Line | ||||||||
| Nissei Chūō 日生中央 |
2.6 from Yamashita | S | S | S | Inagawa, Kawabe District | Hyōgo Prefecture | ||
[edit] Myōken Cable and Myōken Lift
| Station | Connection | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myōken Cable | |||
| Kurokawa 黒川 |
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Kawanishi | Hyōgo Prefecture |
| Cable Sanjō ケーブル山上 |
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| Myōken Lift | |||
| Myōken-no-mizu Hiroba-mae 妙見の水広場前 |
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Kawanishi | Hyōgo Prefecture |
| Myōkensan 妙見山 |
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[edit] In popular culture
The Railway is mentioned at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. As the program installed in Arsenal Gear takes effect, it is revealed that Raiden's colonel is actually an AI, affected by the computer virus and reading off the stations from the railway.
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