Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., Ltd. (京福電気鉄道株式会社) is a railroad company based in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan (but with offices in Fukui Prefecture) in operation since March 2, 1942.[1] It is a parent company of Keifuku Bus and Kyoto Bus, and an affiliated company of Keihan Electric Railway,[2] which owns 42.89% of the company stock. The company's stock is traded on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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This railway started service in 1910,[3] operated at that time by Arashiyama Electric Tram Railway (嵐山電車軌道). It was transferred to the Kyoto-based electric power generation company Kyoto Dento (京都電燈). Later it built the Kitano Line.[4]