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Tokyo Metro 9000 series

🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1991· electric multiple unit train type operated in Japan

🚇 metro electric ✓ in service
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Tokyo-Metro-Series9000-Lot-2: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. 2. TokyoMetro9000: Jet-0· CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. 3. Tokyo Metro 9000 series 9103 20170422: 星空の川に (Hoshizora no kawa ni)· CC BY 2.5
  4. 4. Tokyo Metro 9000 series 9113 20170422: 星空の川に (Hoshizora no kawa ni)· CC BY 2.5
  5. 5. Tokyo Metro 9000 set 16 Kikuna 20110823: keyaki· CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. 6. Metro9000LCD(2): 小田原 (Odawara)· CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. Metro9000LCD(3): 小田原 (Odawara)· CC BY-SA 4.0
  8. 8. Metro9000LCD: 小田原 (Odawara)· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. Tokyo Metro 9000 series 9118F (46819635534): Cheng-en Cheng· CC BY-SA 2.0
  10. 10. Tokyo-Metro-9000 Toei-6300: MaedaAkihiko This photo was taken with Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ1000 II· CC BY-SA 4.0
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what is it?

The Tokyo Metro 9000 series (東京メトロ9000系, Tōkyō Metoro 9000-kei) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line in Tokyo, Japan, since 1991.

who runs it

Tokyo MetroTeito Rapid Transit Authority

base stats

  • speed 110 km/htop speed
  • power 190 kWpower output
  • seats 1,200passengers
  • built 140made 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 35 years ago, in 1991.
  • 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 1,200: 24 full city buses (~50 seats each).
  • Still in service after 35 years.

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

spec sheet

built
1991
in service from
1991
status
in service
number built
140
kind
metro
traction
electric
origin
🇯🇵 Japan
builders
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company
operators
Tokyo Metro, Teito Rapid Transit Authority
top speed
110 km/h
power
190 kW
gauge
1,067 mm Cape gauge
electric system
overhead catenary
formation
6/8 cars per trainset
length
20 m
capacity
1,200 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q8192453, Wikipedia: Tokyo Metro 9000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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