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Tokyo Metro 06 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1993· Japanese train type
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tokyometro06101: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Tokyo Metro 06 Shinkiba Depot 20150919: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Tokyo Metro 06 Yoyogi-Uehara 20070212: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Tokyo Metro 06 series (東京メトロ06系, Tōkyō Metoro 06-kei) was a metro electric multiple unit (EMU) train formerly operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line in Tokyo, Japan, from 1993 until 2015.
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 33 years ago, in 1993.
- 3.3 MW is about 39 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 45 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 22 years (1993–2015).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1993
- in service from
- 1993
- retired
- 2015
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Tokyo Metro, Teito Rapid Transit Authority
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 3.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead wire
- formation
- 10 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 271 t
- capacity
- 54 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q8140625, Wikipedia: Tokyo Metro 06 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.