#5092· treintype 285
285 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1998· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Series285-0 I2: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 285 series (285系, 285-kei) is a sleeper electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated jointly by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on the overnight Sunrise Izumo and Sunrise Seto limited express services in Japan. These EMUs were introduced from 10 July 1998 to replace ageing locomotive-hauled "Blue Train" coaches which once operated on separate Seto and Izumo services between Tokyo, Shikoku and the San'in region.
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 28 years ago, in 1998.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 21.7 m long: about 5 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
- 1998
- in service from
- 1998
- number built
- 35
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo, Kinki Sharyo
- operators
- Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- formation
- 7 cars per trainset
- length
- 21.7 m
- Dutch name
- treintype 285
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4632695, Wikipedia: 285 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.