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Tokyu 8090 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1980· electric multiple unit train type operated by Tokyu Railway in Japan
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tokyu8090: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Tokyu8090Gradation-2: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Tokyu 8090 approaching Tamagawa En: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 4. Tokyu 8090 series EMU 001: Tennen-Gas· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tokyu-8090-80: LERK· CC BY 2.5
- 6. Tokyu8090Gradation-LED-1: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Tokyu8090Gradation-LED-2: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Tokyu8090Gradation: No machine-readable author provided. Yaguchi assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Tokyu 8090 series (東急8090系, Tōkyū 8090-kei) and the related Tokyu 8590 series (東急8590系, Tōkyū 8590-kei) were commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train types that were operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation in the Kanto region of Japan from 1980 until 2019.
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 46 years ago, in 1980.
- 20 m long: about 4 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
- 1980
- in service from
- 1980
- number built
- 90
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company, Tokyu Car Corporation
- operators
- Tokyu
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 130 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead lines
- formation
- 5/8/10 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11526949, Wikipedia: Tokyu 8090 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.