#6001
Toei 6500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kinki Sharyo· from 2022· Electric multiple unit train type to be operated in Japan
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Toei Series6500-6505: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Toei 6500 LED direction indicator: Kaze315· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Toei 6500 series 6508F delivery at Katsuragawa 2022-02-05 a: 鉄撮ゲリラ映団 鉄道チャンネル· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Toei 6500 series 6508F delivery at Katsuragawa 2022-02-05 b: 鉄撮ゲリラ映団 鉄道チャンネル· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Toei 6500 series (都営6500形, Toei 6500-gata) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) in Japan.
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 4 years ago, in 2022.
- Weighs about as much as 42 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 161 m long: about 36 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,172: 23 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
- 2022
- in service from
- 2022
- status
- in service
- number built
- 104
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kinki Sharyo
- operators
- Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- formation
- 8 cars per trainset
- length
- 161 m
- weight
- 252 t
- capacity
- 1,172 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q101204007, Wikipedia: Toei 6500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.