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Kominato Railway KiHa 200 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1962· diesel multiple unit train type operated in Japan
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Kominato-Kiha200-212: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. 2014-08-02 Kominato Railway Kiha 200 series: eiji ienaga· CC BY 2.0
- 3. 2019-04-07 trains of Kominato railway at Goi station: Artem Svetlov· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Kiha 200 Open Carriage: Io24gidf· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Kiha200-2: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY 3.0
- 6. Kominato Kiha200-211 Gibier-train: MaedaAkihiko· CC0
- 7. Kominato railway 2019-04 Goi city: Artem Svetlov· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Kominato Railway Kiha 200 at Umatate Station 20100403 2703: Pcs34560 from jawp· Public domain
- 9. Kominato Railway Kiha 200 Kazusa-Nakano 20090814: Yamaguchi Yoshiaki· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 10. Kominato Railway Kiha 200 series at a station: eiji ienaga· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Kominato Railway KiHa 200 series (小湊鐵道キハ200形, Kominato Tetsudō KiHa 200-gata) is a single-car diesel multiple unit (DMU) train type operated by the third-sector railway operator Kominato Railway on the 39.1 km (24.3 mi) Kominato Line between Goi and Kazusa-Nakano in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, since 1962. As of 1 April 2016, all 14 of the Kiha 200 series cars built are in service.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 160: 3 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
- 1962
- in service from
- 1962
- number built
- 14
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Kominato Line, Kominato Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- formation
- Single-car units
- length
- 20 m
- capacity
- 160 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11462687, Wikipedia: Kominato Railway KiHa 200 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.