In 1949, the pre-war Keihan operations, except for Shinkeihan lines, were restored to independence under the original corporate name.

The entire network is built in 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge double track.

As of 1 April 2016[update], Keihan owns a fleet of 693 vehicles (including two funicular cars), as follows.

[2] The name Keihan, which is also used for the Kyoto-Osaka region, is derived from the words Kyoto and Osaka in Japanese, and is a clipped compound of the names, with the reading of the characters changed: Kyōto (京都) and Ōsaka (大阪) are combined to Keihan (京阪), replacing the go-on reading kyō (京) and kun'yomi saka (阪) with the kan-on readings kei (京) and han (阪).

The larger region, including Kobe (神戸, Kōbe), is similarly called Keihanshin (京阪神, Keihanshin), the go-on reading shin (神) replacing the kun'yomi kō (神), and the corresponding Kyoto-Kobe line is the Keishin (京神, Keishin) line.