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Yume Kūkan
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Subaru Corporation· from 2008· set of three luxury railway coaches operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan between 1989 and 2008
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Yume Kukan Tomobe 20071006: TC411-507 at Japanese Wikipedia a.k.a JobanLineE531· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Yume Kukan OHaFu 25 901 Akabane 20070519: Rsa at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Yume Kukan OHaFu 25 901 Lalaport Shin-Misato 20090923: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Yume Kukan ORoNe25 901 A Ta Gueule 20121026: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Yume Kukan ORoNe 25 901 Ishioka 20070309: Rsa at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Yume Kukan OShi 25 901 Akabane 20070519: Rsa at Japanese Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Yume Kukan OShi 25 901 Lalaport Shin-Misato 20090923: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. JR Hokkaido DD51 1068 Yumekukan Hokkaido: spaceaero2· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Yume Kūkan (夢空間; lit. 'Dream Space') was a set of three luxury railway coaches operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on overnight sleeping car services in Japan between 1989 and 2008.
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 18 years ago, in 2008.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2008
- in service from
- 2008
- number built
- 3
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Subaru Corporation, Nippon Sharyo, Japan Transport Engineering Company
- operators
- East Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12073438, Wikipedia: Yume Kūkan (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.