The design concept of the new train is “Integration of tradition and modernity, Harmony with the scene of Hakone”. Large windows on both side of a car and floor-to-ceiling windows in the observation zones are designed to give panoramic views of Hakone’s magnificent nature. Passengers in the cross seats in the center of the cars can admire the passing scenery and enjoy refreshing mountain breezes from the openable window. The smart-looking exterior has the strength and familiarity typical of a mountain railway, and the cars are painted Vermillion Hakone, a color specially developed to complement Hakone’s four seasons.
Hakone Tozan Train 3000 series
– inheritance of tradition and creation of landscape in Hakone –
Type
Train
Client
Hakone Tozan Railway Co., Ltd.
Status
2011-13 Design
2013-14 Manufacture
2014 November, Commercial operation started
Length
1-car, 14.66m
Body Structure
Stainless-steel
Design
Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network
Production Design and manufacture
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Award
*2015 GOOD DESIGN BEST 100
*2015 GOOD DESIGN OF THE JAPAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
*2015 Laurel Prize (Japan Railfan Club)
Reference
*Shinkenchiku: 2015-3, Shinkenchiku-sha, Japan
*R&M: 2014-11, Japan Railway Rollingstock & Machinery Assosiation, Japan
*Japan Railfan Magazine: 2014-11 No.643, Koyusha Co.,Ltd., Japan
*Japan Railfan Magazine: 2015-1 No.645, Koyusha Co.,Ltd., Japan
*Railway Journal: 2014-11 No.577, Railway Journal Co.,Ltd., Japan
*Railway Journal: 2014-12 No.578, Railway Journal Co.,Ltd., Japan
*The Railway Pictorial: 2014-12 No.898, Denkisha Kenkyukai Co.,Ltd., Japan
*Train: 2014-12 No.480, Eriei Co.,Ltd., Japan
Photograph
Hakone Tozan Railway: No.02, 06
Hiroki Mikami: No.05, 07, 08
