History
- February 22, 1948
- Launched airline agency business as the agency division of "Hankyu Corporation"
- October 5, 1960
- Split from Hankyu Corporation and launched as "Hankyu Kokusai Kotsu-sha"
- April 1, 1962
- Merged with a sister company “Hankyu Kotsu-sha”, whose main business was domestic travel, and changed the company name to “Hankyu Kotsu-sha” the next day, on April 2.
- April 28, 1964
- “Hankyu Kotsu-sha Tokyo Building” completion A
- January 18, 1977
- Established first overseas subsidiary as a travel business, Hankyu Express USA, Inc.
- February 1, 1991
- Merged with the Hankyu Group's travel company "Nihon Kanko Club" based in Kyushu
- April 1, 2005
- Became a core operating company with the establishment of holding company "Hankyu Holdings, Inc."
- October 1, 2006
- With the business integration of "Hankyu Holdings, Inc." and "Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.", became a core operating company of "Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc."
- October 1, 2007
- Launched as "Hankyu Kotsu-sha Ryoko Jigyobunkatsu Junbi Kabushikigaisha", in order to succeed the travel business of "Hankyu Kotsu-sha" via an absorption-type split
- April 1, 2008
- With the move of the former "Hankyu Kotsu-sha" to an intermediate holding company and change of name to “Hankyu Hanshin Kotsu-sha Holdings”, the travel business and the international transportation business split, and the company was re-launched as travel business operator "Hankyu Kotsu-sha"
- April 1, 2010
- With the reorganization of travel business of intermediate holding company “Hankyu Hanshin Kotsu-sha Holdings, Inc.”, the company launched as the media-sales-centric, new “Hankyu Kotsu-sha” and the business-travel-centric “Hankyu Hanshin Business Travel"
- April 1, 2013
- Became the core business company of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings's travel business
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