Ichibata Electric Railway

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Ichibata Electric Railway Co., Ltd. is the name of two related, yet different companies in Japan. Ichibata Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha (一畑電気鉄道株式会社, ^?) was a railway operator until 2006, when it became a holding company of the Ichibata Group, spinning off its railway division to the newly founded Ichibata Densha Kabushiki-gaisha (一畑電車株式会社, ^?). Although the two have different names in Japanese, their official English names are completely same.

[edit] Railway

The rail link in Shimane Prefecture opened in 1911. The railway currently only has two lines:

• the Kita Matsue Line,

which runs for 33.9 km from Dentetsu Izumo-shi Station in Izumo to Matsue Shinji-ko Onsen Station in Matsue, and

• the Taisha Line,

which runs for 8.3 km, entirely in the city of Izumo, from Kawato Station (on the Kita Matsue Line) to Izumo Taisha-mae Station, near Izumo Taisha.

Dentetsu Izumo-shi Station is adjacent to Izumo-shi Station of the Sanin Main Line of West Japan Railway (JR West).

Part of the Kita Matsue Line runs along Lake Shinji.

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Ichibata Electric Railway (The holding company)
• (Japanese) Ichibata Electric Railway (The railway company)