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Tokyu 300 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1999· Japanese tramcar type
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tokyu-EC300-3: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tokyu 300 series near Sangen-jaya station: Kirin7739· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Tōkyū 300 series approaching Sangen-jaya Station: Cheng-en Cheng· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Tōkyū 300 series at Sangen-jaya Station: Cheng-en Cheng· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 5. Tōkyū 300 series leaving Wakabayashi Station (Tokyo): Cheng-en Cheng· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Tokyu 300 series (東急300系, Tōkyū 300-kei) is a series of articulated trams built by Tokyu Car Corporation in 1999 for the Tōkyū Setagaya Line.
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 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 24 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 27 years.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 20
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Tokyu, Tokyu Railways
- top speed
- 40 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,372 mm Scotch gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC overhead lines
- formation
- 2 articulated cars per tramset
- length
- 24 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11526937, Wikipedia: Tokyu 300 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.
