X-Nico

4 unusual facts about West Japan Railway Company


Mahoroba

"The Man-yō Mahoroba Line" became in use for the common name of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Sakurai Line on March 13, 2010, the day of the diagram revision of JR Group.

Osaka-jō Hall

The hall may be reached on a short walk from either Osaka Business Park Station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line or Osakajō-kōen Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line.

Shimabara, Kyoto

Proceeding west, Hanayachō ends and the street turns north then west again, where one exits past a marker indicating the ruins of the former west gate, and then faces the JR West Sagano Line (section of Sanin Main Line) and the Kyoto central wholesale market (京都市中央卸売市場).

West Japan Railway Company

JR West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about 7.2 billion USD) in long-term payable debt.


I've Been Working on the Railroad

This tune is used at the stations on the Hanshin Electric Railway Lines (except Umeda Station and Osaka Namba Station) to announce arriving trains and is similarly used at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Line (for Kamigori and Himeji) and the Ako Line (for Banshu-Ako) of West Japan Railway Company.


see also

Imazu

Ōmi-Imazu Station, railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan