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Odakyu 50000 series VSE
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 2004· electric multiple unit train operated by Odakyu Electric Railway in Japan
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Odakyu.type50000: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Hakone-Tozan-VSE: Cassiopeia sweet· Public domain
- 3. Odakyu 50000 Series Romancecar VSE: T. Hanami· CC0
- 4. Odakyu 50000 VSE 20100515: かときち· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 5. Odakyu 50000 VSE at level crossing, Shinjuku, Tokyo: Justin Foulger· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Odakyu 50000 VSE Chitose-Funabashi Station 2020-03-19: Justin Foulger· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Odakyu 50000 VSE Minami-Shinjuku Station 2020-03-19: Justin Foulger· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 8. Odakyu-50000-Shinjuku: Hirohisat· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Odakyu-Romancecar-VSE Hakone: NY066· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. ODAKYU-ROMANCECAR-VSE-50000: Cassiopeia sweet· Public domain
what is it?
The Odakyu 50000 series (小田急50000形, Odakyū 50000-gata) or VSE (Vault Super Express) was an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Odakyu Electric Railway on Romancecar services in Japan. Two 10-car articulated sets were introduced in March 2005, manufactured by Nippon Sharyo. The type won a Japanese Good Design Award in 2005, and a Blue Ribbon Award in 2006.
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 22 years ago, in 2004.
- 14 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 18 years (2005–2023).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2004
- in service from
- 2005
- retired
- 2023
- status
- retired
- number built
- 20
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo
- designer
- Noriaki Okabe
- operators
- Odakyu Electric Railway
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- formation
- 10 cars per trainset
- length
- 14 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q863629, Wikipedia: Odakyu 50000 series VSE (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.