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Tobu 500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 2017· Japanese electric multiple train type introduced in April 2017
6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tobu-Series500 Revaty: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tobu-Series500: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Tobu 500 series 505 Hanyu Station 20170130: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Tobu 500 series 505-3 Hanyu Station 20170130: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Tobu 500 gangway connection Hanyu Station 20170130: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Tobu Railway 500 Series "Revaty": T. Hanami· CC0
what is it?
The Tobu 500 series (東武500系, Tōbu 500-kei), branded Revaty (リバティ), is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway on limited express services in Japan since 21 April 2017. As of September 2020, 11 three-car sets (33 vehicles in total) have been built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
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 9 years ago, in 2017.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 161: 3 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
- 2017
- in service from
- 2017
- status
- in service
- number built
- 33
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing
- operators
- Tobu Railway
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 3 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
- capacity
- 161 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19826397, Wikipedia: Tobu 500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.