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Tokyu 8000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1969· electric multiple unit train type operated by Tōkyū Railway in Japan
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tokyu8000 red: Chabata_k· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Tokyu 8000 series EMU 001: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Tokyu8000 kabuki: にゆうてい Niyute· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 4. Tokyu 8000 series EMU 002: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tokyu 8000 series EMU 003: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Tokyu-8000 roof-top: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Tokyu-8000-lightweight-prototype: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Tokyu8000NoBand: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Tokyu 8000 series (東急8000系, Tōkyū 8000-kei) was a commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type originally operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation in Japan from 1969 until 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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 57 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1969
- in service from
- 1969
- status
- in service
- number built
- 677
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Tokyu, Izukyū Corporation, KAI Commuter
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 130 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead lines
- formation
- 5/8 cars per trainset (Tokyu), 3 cars per trainset (Izukyū), 8 cars per trainset (KAI Commuter)
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5364948, Wikipedia: Tokyu 8000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.