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Fujikyu 8500 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 2016· Japanese electric multiple unit train type
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Fujikyu-Series8500: MaedaAkihiko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Fujikyu 8500 Fujisan View Express Kawaguchiko Station: BWard 1997· CC BY 4.0
- 3. Fujikyu 8500 Fujisan View Express Tanokura Kasei: Plaraildaisuki· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Fujikyu 8500 Series 6000 Series Kawaguchiko Station: BWard 1997· CC BY 4.0
- 5. Fujikyu 8500 series fujisan view express: Toshinori baba· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Fujikyu 8500 series (富士急行8500系, Fuji Kyūkō 8000-kei) is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train operated by the private railway operator Fuji Kyuko (Fujikyu) on Fujisan View Express (富士山ビュー特急, Fujisan Byū Tokkyū) limited-stop services on the Fujikyuko Line in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, since 23 April 2016.
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 10 years ago, in 2016.
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2016
- in service from
- 2016
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- 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
- 21 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23899324, Wikipedia: Fujikyu 8500 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.