Hanshin Main Line

Main Line
Hanshin 1000 series EMU
Overview
Native name	阪神本線
Type	Commuter rail
Locale	Osaka and Hyogo Prefectures, Japan
Termini	Umeda Motomachi
Stations	33
Operation
Opened	April 12, 1905
Operator(s)	Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Depot(s)	Amagasaki
Technical
Line length	32.1 km (19.9 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC, overhead lines
Operating speed	106 km/h (66 mph)

The Hanshin Main Line (阪神電気鉄道本線, Hanshin Denki Tetsudō Honsen^?) is a railway line operated by the private railway company Hanshin Electric Railway in Japan. It connects the two cities of Osaka and Kobe, between Umeda and Kobe-Sannomiya stations respectively.

The Main Line of Hanshin is the southernmost railway of the three to connect Osaka and Kobe, with more stations through the earliest inhabited area. The others are Hankyu Corporation's Kobe Main Line in northernmost, and in the midst the Tōkaidō Main Line of present West Japan Railway Company (JR West).

Although the Tōkaidō Main Line has connected the cities earlier as a part of the national railway network, but had been less significant in the interurban connection of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area. Privatized West Japan Railway Company (JR West) has focused the area as its "Urban Network", and has become competitive with private railways.

For nearly a century, the line or the company had competed with the Hankyū Kobe Main Line with numerous stories, tales and talks, however, in 2006 Hanshin and Hankyū were subsidiarized under a single share holding company, Hankyu Hanshin Holdings.