#5507· Nankai type 8000
Nankai 8000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 2008· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Nankai8000 Airport Express: 日根野 (Hineno)· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Nankai-8000-syanai: 小倉商事· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 8000 Series EMU - 54304082524: Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Nankai 8007 - Nankai 8000 series - at Namba station NK01: AgainErick· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Nankai Electric Railway 8000 series: Covaryo at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Nankai8000 1: まっつん 7121 at Japanese Wikipedia· Public domain
- 7. Nankai8000 8001F Local Chiyoda: にぶさま· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Nankai8000 space: 日根野 (Hineno)· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Nankai8000 SS-177M: ひふみんぬ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Nankai8000-next: 準急三条 at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Nankai 8000 series (南海8000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway in Japan since 2008.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 18 years ago, in 2008.
- 1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2008
- in service from
- 2008
- number built
- 52
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Nankai Electric Railway
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 1.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 4 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.8 m
- Dutch name
- Nankai type 8000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3916278, Wikipedia: Nankai 8000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.