#4835
Tobu 300 series
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 1991· electric multiple unit train type operated by Tobu Railway
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tobu Railway 300 Limited Express Kirifuri: Sui-setz· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Tobu 300 series and 350 series (東武300系・350系, Tōbu 300/350-kei) were limited express electric multiple unit (EMU) train types operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway in Japan from July 1991 until March 2022. Rebuilt from former 1800 series express sets, the trains were used on limited express and charter services on the Tobu Skytree Line and Tobu Nikko Line.
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 35 years ago, in 1991.
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 26 years (1991–2017).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1991
- in service from
- 1991
- retired
- 2017
- status
- retired
- number built
- 24
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Tobu Railway
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- formation
- 4/6 cars per trainset
- length
- 20 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q56762, Wikipedia: Tobu 300 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.