Improving the value of areas along our railway lines
through collaborations with stakeholders

Our company aims to increase the resident population, the related population, and the non-resident population (e.g., tourists) by enhancing the value of living, working, and visiting in the area through solving social issues and area branding along the railway line.

For "living," we are working with local people to hold events and disseminate information for the childcare generation, as well as create a community that aims for coexistence with non- Japanese people. For "working," we are supporting the recruitment of companies along the railway line and supporting open factories. For "visiting," we are working with local people to create a tourist town that makes use of the World Heritage Sites and food resources along the railway line.

With the aim of increasing the resident population along the railway line, our company is working with local governments and creators who were gathered through a public call and who want to convey the appeal of living there. We are implementing the Community Open House initiative to give young people and families who are considering moving or relocating a concrete image of life along the Nankai railway line.

In FY2023, we held a half-day tour event in Kawachinagano City that gave people a realistic sense of the appeal of living in the municipalities along the railway line. We also worked with creators to broadcast the appeal of the area online, as well as through web articles and social media.

In FY2024, we will continue the same initiatives in Kawachinagano City and Sakai City as in FY2023. Through this initiative, we hope to create opportunities for area branding and direct population inflows, and to increase the resident population.

We carry out the "Family Smiles +1 Project" with the aim of making our business territory an attractive place to live by promoting the measures that make child rearing generation feel happy and attached to our territory, the region along Nankai railway.

In FY2024, we introduced a total of 51 hands-on events at various locations along our territory under the name of “Exciting Experiences for Parents and Children along the Nankai Railway Line - Let's do it!” from June to September in cooperation with municipalities and companies along our railway that endorsed our concept “Co-creating a community where it is fun to raise children and providing a wide range of opportunities to nurture children's “buds of curiosity” along the entire Nankai railway line”. We then hosted “Nankai Thanksgiving Festival for Parents and Children” with a total of 18 booths each day at Namba Skyo as a finale.

In addition, we discover and disseminate the attractions of the region along Nankai railway line by teaming up with those who “Love the region and are willing to share the attractions of the region on their own social media (=creators)” as “Nankai Railway Area Discovery Creators Section”.

We are working on the project named “#BIZ TAG NANKAI: a project to develop attractiveness of the companies along the railway line” in order to increase the number of attractive workplaces and workers in our territory, and as a part of the project, we sponsor Open-Factory events* that are held in the region along our railway line since 2020. In 2023FY, the events were held in 4 regions (Sakai, Senshu, Kawachinagano, Wakayama) along our railway and a total of approximately 8,000 people participated.

We are working on creating a community that can bring about more interactions by connecting these Open-Factory communities. In addition, looking ahead to the EXPO, we are considering promoting the industrial tourism for companies that are interested in attracting inbound visitors, seeking to develop it into a new highlight of tourism in the Senshu region.

* Open-Factory…An initiative in which multiple companies open their factories to the public on the same day, allowing public to tour the manufacturing sites and enjoy.

Since 2018, we have been working on the "Town Development through Renovation" project with the aim of utilizing unused real estate along our railway line and thereby increasing the value of the region.

In 2022, we, with Wakayama City, co-hosted a workshop “Renovation School @ Kada Line", a three-day short-term intensive workshop for considering the utilization of unused real estate around the town of Kada. In October 2024, a restaurant named "En" has opened in front of Kada Station, run by students of “Renovation School”.

We aim to create a lively town by increasing the value of the region, by creating the functions that the town needs by working on the project “Town Planning through Renovation” that solves local issues by (re)utilizing various potential resources in the region such as idle real estate like vacant land and vacant houses, culture, history, visitors and residents, etc.

People from all over the country who want to play music with their friends and who love rock music gather to deepen their connections by playing music together, and liven up the venue in southern Osaka.

We call the event "A Thousand Rock You!!". It is a rock ensemble in which 1,000 people play the same song at once, aiming to foster a sense of attachment to the event and the region through sharing a sense of accomplishment among all participants, including both performers and audience, overcoming the barriers of language, nationality, and age.