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Tokyu 8500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Japan Transport Engineering Company· from 1975· Japanese train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tokyu8500series 8606F: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tokyu-8500-8634F-TOQ-BOX: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Tokyu-8500-8637F: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Tokyu8500-Car guidance device: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tokyu8500Gradation: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Tokyu Corporation 8500 Series "Izu no Natsu Go": T. Hanami· CC0
- 7. Image-Tokyu-8500-rail-guard-2: Yaguchi· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Tokyu 8500 Kanegafuchi Station 2016-10-07 2: Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. Tokyu 8500 Series 8532 at Satte Station: Suikotei· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Tokyu 8500 Series 8617F: Shonan-Exp· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Tokyu 8500 series (東急8500系, Tōkyū 8500-kei) is a retired commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line and Tokyu Oimachi Line in the Tokyo area of Japan from 1975 until 2023, and the Jabodetabek area of Indonesia from 2006 until 2025.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 50 years (1975–2025).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1975
- in service from
- 1975
- retired
- 2025
- status
- retired
- number built
- 400
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Tokyu, KAI Commuter, Tokyu Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 130 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line
- formation
- 10 (previously 5/6, orig., Originally 4) cars per trainset (Tokyu), 8 cars per trainset (KAI Commuter)
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q851703, Wikipedia: Tokyu 8500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.