Port Island Line

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Port Island Line

Legend

Kobe Municipal Subway:

Seishin-Yamate Line

Hankyū: Kobe Main Line

Kobe Rapid Railway:

Tōzai Line

JR West:

Tōkaidō Main (JR Kobe) Line

0.0

P01 Sannomiya

Hanshin:

Main Line

Subway: Kaigan Line (Sannomiya-Hanadokeimae)

0.8

P02 Bōeki Center

Kobekō freight

1.8

P03 Port Terminal

2.8

2.6

P04 Naka-Kōen

3.3

P05 Shimin-Byōin-Mae

3.8

0.0

P06 Shimin-Hiroba

1.7

PL09 Kita-Futō

1.2

PL08 Naka-Futō

0.6

PL07 Minami-Kōen

4.6

P07 Sentan-Iryō Center Mae

5.4

P08 Port Island Minami

8.2

P09 Kobe Airport

Kobe Airport

The Port Island Line (ポートアイランド線, Port Island sen^?), commonly known as Port Liner (ポートライナー, Port Liner^?) is an urban automated guideway transit (AGT) system in Kobe, Japan, operated by Kobe New Transit. Opened in February 1981, it was the world's first urban AGT.

The initial system linked Sannomiya Station, Kobe's main transit hub, to the man-made Port Island, covering a distance of 6.4 km with 9 stations. On February 2, 2006, the line was extended by 4.3 km to the new Kobe Airport, built on an artificial island near Port Island.

1 Route
2 Stations
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Route

As the map indicates, the present system consists of one straight line, originating at Sannomiya Station and terminating at Kobe Airport Station, and a loop attached to the middle of the straight line. The stations on the former are numbered with prefix "P" and on the latter (except those shared with the former) are with prefix "PL".

Originally, before the 2006 extension to the airport, the loop section was single track and operated only counter-clockwise trains. Presently the main section between Sannomiya and the airport is entirely double track, but the remaining of the loop has not been rebuilt so that the three stations with PL prefix still serve only one way.

[edit] Stations

All stations are located in Chūō-ku, Kobe.

Station		km	Rapid
Double Track Section
P01	Sannomiya	0.0	S
P02	Bōeki Center	0.8
P03	Port Terminal	1.8
P04	Naka-Kōen	2.8	S
P05	Shimin-Byōin-Mae	3.3	S
P06	Shimin-Hiroba	3.8	S
P07	Sentan-Iryō Center Mae	4.6	S
P08	Port Island Minami	5.4	S
P09	Kobe Airport	8.2	S
Single Track Section
P06	Shimin-Hiroba	0.0
PL07	Minami-Kōen	0.6
PL08	Naka-Futō	1.2
PL09	Kita-Futō	1.7
P04	Naka-Kōen	2.6