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Shintetsu 6500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2016· Japanese train type
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 神戸電鉄６５００系２: ATTESA-R· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 神戸電鉄6500系6503Ｆ（新開地側）: ATTESA-R· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Shintetsu 6500 series 6512 at Sanda-Hommachi Station: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 4. Shintetsu 6500 series 6514 at Yokoyama Station: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Shintetsu 6500 series (神戸電鉄6500系, Kōbe Dentetsu 6500-kei) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) in Japan since May 2016.
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 10 years ago, in 2016.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 18.3 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 237: 5 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2016
- in service from
- 2016
- number built
- 21
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Kobe Electric Railway
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead lines
- formation
- 3 cars per trainset
- length
- 18.3 m
- capacity
- 237 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q20983124, Wikipedia: Shintetsu 6500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.