Nose Railway

Nose Railway (能勢電 noseden, Corporate name: Nose Electric Railway Co., Ltd., 能勢電鉄株式会社) is a Japanese private railway which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka area to Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station in Ikeda, Osaka where one can transfer to Hankyu Railway to complete a trip into Osaka.

Nose Railway uses the same type of trademark maroon train as Hankyu Railway, and hence runs on the same 1500 V and standard gauge rail.

The Nose Railway consists of one line with a one-station branch to Nissei-Chuo.

There are three types of train:

• Locals serve the Myoken-(main)-Line through to Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station as well as shuttle and direct service to Nissei-Chuo Station.
• Expresses skip the first half of the line and continue to either terminal. Express Stations are marked with a (x).
• Nissei-Express trains give a limited express service on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line from Umeda Station, then switch to the Nose line and run as expresses to Nissei-Chuo Station; these only run at commuting times, and use a separate platform (number 6) at Umeda.

Myoken-Line

• (x)Kawanishi-Noseguchi (transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line)
• Kinunobebashi
• Takiyama
• Uguisunomori
• Tsuzumigataki
• Tada
• (x)Hirano
• (x)Ichinotorii (skipped by Nissei-bound expresses)
• (x)Uneno
• (x)Yamashita (transfer for Nissei-Shuttle trains, root of branch to (x)Nissei-Chuo)
• (x)Sasabe
• (x)Kofudai
• (x)Tokiwadai
• (x)Myokenguchi