Portliner Monorail Kobe

Kobe is a cosmopolitan port city in Japan with its transportation infrastructure developing in leaps and bounds. The disastrous earthquake that rocked Kobe in 1995 almost crippled this lively city. Almost nothing was spared, be it roads, railways, bridges and of course the buildings and people. The visitors to Kobe are fascinated by the speedy recovery of the city in just a span of a decade with its roads, subways, bridges and buildings featuring as some of the major tourist attractions to the city. One of the gems of transportation in Kobe is the Portliner Monorail, Kobe , which was perhaps the only structure to withstand the earthquake in 1995.

The Portliner Monorail, Kobe is an urban automated guide way transit system in Kobe, operated by the Kobe New Transit . This monorail was initially a system linking the Sannomiya Station, Kobe's main transit hub to the man made Port Island, covering a distance of 6.4 Kilometers with 9 stations. Of late since 2006, the line has been extended by 4.3 Kilometers to go up to the new Kobe Airport, which is built on an artificial island near Port Island. There is another similar automated guide way transit system in Kobe called the Rokko Liner that connects man made Rokko Island to JR Sumiyoshi Station. These form the two main modes of Kobe transport .

The Portliner Monorail, Kobe , is a digitally driven monorail. It departs from Sannomiya Station every six minutes from 6.05 a.m. until 11:40 p.m. to port Island with eight stops along the way. The ride on the Kobe Portliner Monorail offers amazing view of the Kobe Harbor up close. The ride takes one to a different level away from the hustle and bustle of the life down on the road.

Japan boasts of several monorails in almost all its major cities namely Chiba Urban monorail, Kitakyushu Monorail, Monkey Park Monorail, Okinawa monorail, Osaka Monorail, Sky Rail, Tokyo Disney Resort Monorail and of course the Tokyo monorail. There is however a difference between the Portliner Monorail, Kobe and all the other monorails. It is said that the Portliner Monorail, Kobe is not strictly speaking a monorail though it resembles one at the first glance. This is because the rail in the center of the track serves only to guide the train and not support it. However by general view, Portliner Monorail, Kobe is regarded as a monorail in Kobe.

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