Sakaisuji Line

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Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line
A refurbished Sakaisuji Line 66 series EMU in January 2016
Overview
Native name	堺筋線
Owner	Osaka Metro (2018–present) Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau (1969–2018)
Line number	6
Locale	Osaka
Termini	Tenjimbashisuji Rokuchōme Tengachaya
Stations	10
Color on map	(#814721)
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Osaka Metro
Depot(s)	Higashi-Suita (located on Hankyu Senri Line)
Rolling stock	Osaka Municipal Subway 66 series Hankyu 1300 series Hankyu 3300 series Hankyu 5300 series Hankyu 7300 series Hankyu 8300 series
History
Opened	6 December 1969; 54 years ago (1969-12-06)
Last extension	4 March 1993; 31 years ago (1993-03-04)
Technical
Line length	8.1 km (5.0 mi)
Track length	8.5 km (5.3 mi)
Number of tracks	Double-track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	1,500 V DC (overhead line)
Operating speed	70 km/h (45 mph)
Signalling	Automatic closing block
Train protection system	WS-ATC
Route map

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Legend
Kawaramachi Takatsuki-shi Ibaraki-shi Higashi-Suita depot Hankyu Kyoto Line Kita-Senri Hankyu Senri Line Awaji Hankyū Kyoto Main Line to Umeda Yodo River Tenjimbashi Hankyū Senri Line Tanimachi Line 0.0 Tenjimbashisuji Rokuchōme Temma Osaka Loop Line 0.7 Ōgimachi 1.3 Minami-morimachi Tanimachi Line Osaka-Temmangu JR Tōzai Line Dōjima River Keihan Nakanoshima Line Tosabori River Keihan Main Line 2.1 Kitahama 3.0 Sakaisuji-Hommachi Chūō Line Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line 4.0 Nagahoribashi 4.9 Nippombashi Sennichimae Line Kintetsu Nippombashi Kintetsu Namba Line 5.9 Ebisuchō Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) Osaka Loop Line Midōsuji Line 6.6 Dōbutsuen-mae Nankai Tennoji Branch 8.1 Tengachaya Nankai Main Line Nankai Koya Line

The Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line (堺筋線, Sakaisuji-sen) is an underground rapid transit line in Osaka, Japan, operated by Osaka Metro. Its official name is Rapid Electric Tramway Line No. 6 (高速電気軌道第6号線), and in MLIT publications, it is written as Line No. 6 (Sakaisuji Line) (6号線（堺筋線）).

The Sakaisuji Line is unique in the Osaka Metro system in that despite being regulated as a tramway under the Railway Business Act like the other lines, the line was constructed as an extension of a line governed as a railway, specifically the Hankyu Senri Line, to which the Sakaisuji Line connects to at its northern end at Tenjimbashisuji Rokuchōme Station. Through services using both Osaka Municipal Subway and Hankyu rolling stock operates to and from the Senri Line and Arashiyama Line via the Kyoto Main Line.^[1][2]