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Fujikyu 8000 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 2014· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Fujikyu 8000 series 20140712: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Fujikyu-Series8000: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Fujikyuko 8000 series car 1: Kounoichi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Fujikyuko 8000 series car 2 and car 1: Kounoichi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Fujikyuko 8000 series in Ōtsuki Station 20161025: Kounoichi· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Fuji kyuko 8000 series 20140830 001: ウツダー (Udda)· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 7. Fujikyuko 8000 series car 3: Kounoichi· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Fujikyu 8000 series (富士急行8000系, Fuji Kyūkō 8000-kei) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Fuji Kyuko (Fujikyu) on Fujisan Limited Express (フジサン特急, Fujisan Tokkyū) limited-stop services on the Fujikyuko Line in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, since July 2014.
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 12 years ago, in 2014.
- 20.7 m long: about 5 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
- 2014
- in service from
- 2014
- status
- in service
- number built
- 3
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Fuji Kyuko, Fujikyu Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead wire
- formation
- 3 cars per set
- length
- 20.7 m
- capacity
- 160 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17349068, Wikipedia: Fujikyu 8000 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.