Keikyu
Also known as Keihin Electric Express Railway, Keikyu Corporation, Keikyū, Keikyū Corporation
(), also known as or, more recently, , is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. It also provides rail access to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. means the - area. The company's railroad origins date back to 1898, but the current company dates to 1948. The railway pioneered Kantō region's first electric train and the nation's third, after Hanshin Electric Railway and Nagoya Electric Railway (Meitetsu) with the opening of a short long section of what later became the Daishi Line in January 1899.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Keikyu Corporation
- Company.native_name
- 京浜急行電鉄株式会社
- Company.native_name_lang
- ja
- Company.former_name
- Keihin Electric Express Railway Company, Ltd. (1948-2010)
- Company.logo
- Keikyu logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.image
- Keikyu Headquarters.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 200px
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Yokohama
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.location_city
- Yokohama
- Company.location_country
- Japan
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(), also known as or, more recently, , is a private railroad that connects inner Tokyo to Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and other points on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture. It also provides rail access to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. means the - area. The company's railroad origins date back to 1898, but the current company dates to 1948. The railway pioneered Kantō region's first electric train and the nation's third, after Hanshin Electric Railway and Nagoya Electric Railway (Meitetsu) with the opening of a short long section of what later became the Daishi Line in January 1899.
thumb|150px|Keikyu's formal logo, adopted in 1964, rarely used in publicity since 1983; today it is mostly found in Keikyu maintenance worker headgear. It is a stylized version of the katakana ヶ