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301 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1966· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 301 K5 Mitaka 20030222: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 301 series (301系) was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type introduced in 1966 by Japanese National Railways (JNR), and later operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on Chuo-Sobu Line and Tozai Line subway through-running services in Tokyo, Japan, until 2003.
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 37 years (1966–2003).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1966
- in service from
- 1966
- retired
- 2003
- status
- retired
- number built
- 56
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Japanese National Railways, East Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- formation
- 10 cars per trainset (originally 7 cars)
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4634353, Wikipedia: 301 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.