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Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (南海電気鉄道株式会社, Nankai denki tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is a
private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name Nankai (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the
Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates all the electric railways in the Tokyo region.
The Nankai Railway Company was founded on June 16, 1884. In 1944 it was one of the companies that merged to form
Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. (Kin-nichi, present Kintetsu Railway). However, Kin-nichi transferred the former Nankai Railway Company's lines to the present Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (named Koyasan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. from March 28, 1925 until March 14, 1947) on June 1, 1947.
From 1938 to 1988, Nankai Electric Railway owned the
Nankai Hawks, a team in
Nippon Professional Baseball that was based in Osaka. The team was sold to
Daiei after the 1988 season and moved to Fukuoka and rechristened the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. The team was sold again in 2005 to
SoftBank, and are now the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
‡ indicates
rapid transit operators § indicates semi-major rail operators *Not a member of
Associations of Private Japanese Railways, therefore excluded under the formal Japanese definition, although its comparable size is undisputed