In recent years, there has been an increase in foreign visitors to Japan. This tendency toward foreign individual tourism may have an effect on an increase in railway users during their travels, as well as having an effect on the Japanese government's "Cool Japan" campaign.
In this fortuitous time, Nankai Electric Railway has created the image character "rapi:tldier".
Rapi:tldier is going into action to appear at events created for foreign tourists as well as the promotion of travel to Osaka, using the Limited Express Rapi:t.