Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the urban transportation, real estate, entertainment, information and communication technology, travel, international transportation, and hotels businesses in Japan and internationally.
Urban Transportation
Railway Operations: These operations form a network in the Kansai area that centers on the railway lines of Hankyu Corporation and Hanshin Electric Railway. Hankyu Corporation's railway lines link Osaka (Umeda) with Kobe,...
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the urban transportation, real estate, entertainment, information and communication technology, travel, international transportation, and hotels businesses in Japan and internationally.
Urban Transportation
Railway Operations: These operations form a network in the Kansai area that centers on the railway lines of Hankyu Corporation and Hanshin Electric Railway. Hankyu Corporation's railway lines link Osaka (Umeda) with Kobe, Takarazuka, and Kyoto. Hanshin Electric Railway is an operator with railway lines that directly link Kobe with Osaka's major northern and southern terminals, which are Osaka-Umeda and Osaka-Namba, respectively. The operating kilometers of Hankyu Corporation and Hanshin Electric Railway are 143.6 km and 48.9 km, respectively.
Automobile Business (Bus, Taxi): This business operates bus and taxi services, which coordinate with railway services to increase convenience in line-side areas.
Retailing Business: This business manages and operates shops mainly inside railway stations on the Hankyu and Hanshin lines.
Real Estate
Leasing business: This business owns various office buildings and facilities, mainly in Osaka-Umeda and the lineside areas of the Hankyu and Hanshin lines. The company engages in pursuing the development of real estate in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Real Estate Sales and Other: This business markets condominiums, residential land lots, and detached houses, mainly in the lineside areas of the Hankyu and Hanshin lines and the Tokyo metropolitan area. The company has also entered the ASEAN region. The company engages in property management, building maintenance, and other building operation and management services, as well as real estate fund management, including private placement funds and J-REIT businesses.
Entertainment
Sports: The company manages the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team, as well as the team's home ground and high-school baseball mecca Hanshin Koshien Stadium and related businesses. It also operates a music business (Billboard Live).
Stage: The company manages the performances of the Takarazuka Revue and manages and operates related businesses engaged in video and music distribution. Further, the company operates Umeda Arts Theater and promotes stage productions.
Information and Communication Technology
The company focuses on the information services business, which offers a range of IT-based services, such as system development; the broadcasting and communications business, which provides multi-channel broadcasts, internet services, and fixed telephone services; and the safety/education business, which operates ProgLab robot programming classes for children, and Mimamorume, a child safety service, which monitors children's journeys to and from school.
Travel
The company plans, markets, arranges, and supports travel for Japanese people in Japan and internationally and for inbound tourists. It provides various travel services, which include media sales to sell packaged tours through advertisements in newspaper, internet and other media, individual tours with itineraries that could be created freely, group tours that it proposes for study or as educational tours visiting enterprises or schools, counter sales at shops, tours for the inbound international visitors and arrangements for international business trips.
International Transportation
The company responds to various distribution needs from customers worldwide through its five-regions, management system, including Japan, the, Americas, EMEA, 4 East Asia, and ASEAN, domestic bases: 52/overseas bases: 134, (As of September 1, 2020). By bringing together air freight, sea freight, land freight, warehousing/logistics, and customs clearance services, the company provides logistics solution that could respond to various customer needs.
Hotels
The company operates a range of hotel formats, from ‘city hotels’ through to business hotels primarily including guest rooms for overnight stays. As of September 1, 2020, the company operated 21 directly managed hotels, 28 franchised hotels, and 49 total hotels (with 12,470 guest rooms).
History
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1907.