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Tobu 100 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1990· electric multiple unit train operated in Japan by Tobu Railway
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tobu-Series100-109F Revival: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tobu-Series100-104: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Tobu100iki: Nyohoho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Tobu100miyabi: Nyohoho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tobu100new-orange: Nyohoho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Tobu 100 Spacia Compartment Shinjuku 20071104: L,t,d,express at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. JRE-EC253-Tobu-100: User:Cassiopeia_sweet· Public domain
- 8. Tobu 100 in Warabi, Saitama, Tohoku Main Line 2020-03-21: Justin Foulger· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. Tobu 100 Kinu Kanegafuchi Station 2016-10-07: Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 10. Tobu 100 series 20070202: LERK· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
The Tobu 100 series (Japanese: 東武100系, romanized: Tōbu 100-kei), branded Spacia (スペーシア), is a limited express electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan since 1990. The trains are used on Kegon, Spacia Nikko, Kinu, and Spacia Kinugawa services to Nikkō and Kinugawa-Onsen.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 36 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1990
- in service from
- 1990
- status
- in service
- number built
- 54
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Alna Sharyo, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Tobu Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- formation
- 6 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5364719, Wikipedia: Tobu 100 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.