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Odakyu 3100 series NSE
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1963· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Odakyu-3100: yaguchi （矢口）· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Odakyu NSE 3100: spaceaero2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. C58 getrokken goederentrein en NSE, 1 januari 1965 a: M MDA· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Odakyo 3000 SE - 3100 NSE - Romancecar Museum: Bmazerolles· CC BY 4.0
- 5. Odakyu 3100 Ashigara: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 6. OER-3100-NSE-Super-Hakone: Cassiopeia sweet at Japanese Wikipedia· Public domain
- 7. OER-3100-NSE: Cassiopeia sweet· Public domain
- 8. Romancecar-Museum-SE-NSE-LSE: Tokyo-Good· CC0
- 9. Odakyu 3100 series NSE Kaisei Station East 201905: Suikotei· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. OER 3100-3181: Snow rabbit at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Odakyu 3100 series (小田急3100形, Odakyū 3100-gata) or NSE (New Super Express) was an articulated electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Odakyu Electric Railway on Romancecar services in the Tokyo area of Japan between 1963 and 2000. It won the Blue Ribbon Award in 1964.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- 144 m long: about 32 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 464: 9 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 54 years (1963–2017).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1963
- in service from
- 1963
- retired
- 2017
- status
- retired
- number built
- 77
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Odakyu Electric Railway
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 110 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 11 cars per set
- length
- 144 m
- capacity
- 464 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7077246, Wikipedia: Odakyu 3100 series NSE (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.