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Hankyū Railway (阪急電鉄 hankyū-dentetsu) is a Japanese private railway that links major cities in the Kansai region, including Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. The signature color of Hankyu trains is maroon.
The Hankyu network serves 1,950,000 people every weekday and offers several kinds of express on each of its main lines and several branches during commute hours. Most trains have six doors and bench seating facing the center of the train, however limited and rapid express trains on the Kyoto line often use four-door trains with forward and back facing seating.
The word Hankyu is a compound meaning Osaka-Express, appropriately, almost all Hankyu lines terminate at Umeda Station in Osaka.