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Sapporo Municipal Subway 9000 series

🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2015· Japanese train, introduced in 2015

🚇 metro electric ✓ in service
Sapporo Municipal Subway 9000 series, photo 1 of 3
1/3 bellz_asamidou· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

The Sapporo Municipal Subway 9000 series (札幌市交通局 9000形) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) rubber-tyred metro train type operated by Sapporo Municipal Subway on the Tōhō Line in the city of Sapporo, Japan, since 8 May 2015.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 70 km/htop speed
  • built 80made in total

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 11 years ago, in 2015.
  • 69.3 m long: about 15 cars parked nose to tail.

metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.

spec sheet

built
2015
in service from
2015
status
in service
number built
80
kind
metro
traction
electric
origin
🇯🇵 Japan
builders
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
operators
Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
top speed
70 km/h
power
—
electric system
overhead catenary
wheel arrangement
2'2'+Bo'Bo'+Bo'Bo'+2'2'
formation
4 cars per trainset
length
69.3 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q19883120, Wikipedia: Sapporo Municipal Subway 9000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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