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Sapporo Municipal Subway 6000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1976· Japanese train type
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sapporo subway 6916 20080714 3: bellz_asamidou· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Sapporo Subway 6000 monument: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Sapporo Subway 6000 series kagakukan07 20080217: Bellz_asamidou· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Sapporo-subway 6000: Bakkai· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Sapporo Municipal Subway 6000 series (札幌市交通局6000形) was a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) rubber-tyred metro train type operated by Sapporo Municipal Subway on the Tōzai Line in the city of Sapporo, Japan, from June 1976 to August 2008.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- 180 m long: about 40 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 346: 7 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 32 years (1976–2008).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1976
- in service from
- 1976
- retired
- 2008
- status
- retired
- number built
- 168
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead conductor rail
- formation
- 7 cars per trainset
- length
- 180 m
- capacity
- 346 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11521229, Wikipedia: Sapporo Municipal Subway 6000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.