Its subsidiaries operates tourism, real estate, and shipping companies, and has a major rail car-building operation Kinki Sharyo which produces trains used in Japan, the United States, Egypt and Hong Kong.

Kinki Nippon Railways Co., Ltd. (近畿日本鉄道株式会社, Kinki nippon tetsudo kabushiki gaisha), a passenger rail transit company in Kinki and Tokai regions, was founded after Kansai Express Railways merged with Nankai Railways on June 1, 1944.

Kinki Nippon Railways changed its legal name in English to Kintetsu Corporation on June 28, 2003.

On April 1, 2015, the corporation, was restructured into a holding company, splitting its railway, real estate, logistics and retail, and recreation service divisions.

Kintetsu Corporation also changed the legal name to Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd. on the same day.