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Keio 8000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1992· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Keio-Series8000-8712: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Keio 8000 at Fuchu-Keiba-Seimon-mae 2019: Kirin7739· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Keio 8000 bottom: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 4. Keio 8000 refurbished outside: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 5. Keio 8000 series 30th anniversary headmark: Kirin7739· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Keio 8000 series keio line 20171113: Cfktj1596 This photo was taken with Nikon D750· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Keio 8000 side view: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 8. Keio 8000 Tokyo Hachioji Bee Trains 20190218a: 江戸村のとくぞう· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Keio 8000: 雑用部· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Keio-8000-Yamada: Nyao148· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Keio 8000 series (京王8000系) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation on commuter services in the Tokyo area of Japan since 1992.
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 34 years ago, in 1992.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 143: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 34 years.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1992
- in service from
- 1992
- status
- in service
- number built
- 245
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- Keio
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 150 kW
- gauge
- 1,372 mm Scotch gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead catenary
- formation
- 8/10 cars per trainset (present), 4/6/8 cars per trainset (as built)
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 131 t
- capacity
- 143 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6383780, Wikipedia: Keio 8000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.