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Kashikodokoro Riding Car
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Ministry of Railways· from 1915· Japanese railroad car
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Kashikodokoro Jogyosha 02: Ministry of Railways· Public domain
what is it?
The Kashikodokoro Riding Car (賢所乗御車, かしこどころじょうぎょしゃ) is a passenger car manufactured by the Japanese Ministry of Railways for the transportation of the sacred mirror, Yata no Kagami in 1915.
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 111 years ago, in 1915.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1915
- number built
- —
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Ministry of Railways, Tokyo General Rolling Stock Base
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 31.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11635084, Wikipedia: Kashikodokoro Riding Car (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.