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521 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2006· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JRW Series521-G30: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The 521 series (521系, 521-kei) is a dual-voltage AC/DC outer-suburban electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), along with third-sector railway operators Hapi-Line Fukui (as of March 2024), IR Ishikawa Railway, and Ainokaze Toyama Railway on local services in the Fukui, Kanazawa, and Toyama areas.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- 20.1 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
- 2006
- in service from
- 2006
- number built
- 164
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kinki Sharyo
- operators
- West Japan Railway Company, IR Ishikawa Railway, Ainokaze Toyama Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 230 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- / (overhead line)
- formation
- 2 cars per trainset
- length
- 20.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4640151, Wikipedia: 521 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.