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Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing

Logo: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese rolling stock manufacturer

The Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Company (川崎車両, Kawasaki Sharyō) is the Japanese rolling stock manufacturing subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad cars.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1906Founded1

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Kawasaki HI Hyogo factory
Photo: tosimisi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Company (川崎車両, Kawasaki Sharyō) is the Japanese rolling stock manufacturing subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad cars.2

Corporate structure

Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing is part of a group headed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. 13 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries 東京都 港区, Japan
    • Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Hyōgo-ku
    • Japanese Aero Engines Corporation Subsidiary · Minato
    • Kawasaki Aerospace Systems Company Subsidiary · Minato
    • カワサキプラントシステムズ Subsidiary
    • Kawasaki Motors Europe N.V. Subsidiary · 100% · Hoofddorp, Netherlands
    • INDIA KAWASAKI MOTORS PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Pune, India
    • Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ship & Offshore Structure Company Subsidiary · Japan
    • KAWASAKI MOTORES DE MEXICO SA DE CV Subsidiary · Salinas Victora, Mexico
    • Kawasaki Ninja 600R Subsidiary
    • KM Receivables Corporation Subsidiary · Lake Forest, California, United States
    • WIPRO KAWASAKI PRECISION MACHINERY PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Bangalore, India
    • 川重商事株式会社 Subsidiary · 兵庫県 神戸市中央区, Japan

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

  • electric locomotive

Listed on Wikidata.1

As indicated by the company name, the company mainly produces railroad vehicles. Since the early-1980s, Kawasaki has received orders from customers in foreign countries, including the Republic of Ireland, Bangladesh and the United States. All products manufactured for the US rail market are sold through Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., another division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. An assembly plant in Lincoln, Nebraska produces fully completed cars and "knocked down" cars. Because of substantial sales to the New York City Subway and various commuter lines, an additional assembly plant was established in Yonkers, New York, in 1986 for final assembly of cars built in Lincoln, at the site of a former Otis Elevator Company factory. The rolling stock of the Dhaka Metro Rail's first line, MRT Line-6, is made by Kawasaki.

In November 2020, Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced that it would spin off some of its businesses, including the rolling stock division from October 2021.

Japan Railways Group

Products produced for the Japan Railways Group, or JR Group, include:

Shinkansen: All types except N700A series, N700S series and 800 series

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JR / JNR local lines:

Former JNR: 103 series, 201 series, 203 series, 207-900 series, 211 series EMUs

JR Central: 311 series, 371 series, 383 series EMUs

JR East: 651 series, 209 series, E231 series, E233 series, E331 series, E501 series, E531 series, 701 series, E721 series EMUs

JR Hokkaido: 721 series, 731 series, 785 series, 789 series EMUs

JR West: 281 series, 283 series, 285 series, 287 series, 681 series, 683 series, 207 series, 323 series, 223 series, 225 series, 227 series, 521 series, 125 series EMUs, 87 series (KiSaINe 86 type Sleeping cars) Hybrid MU

JR Shikoku: 5000 series (5000 type cab cars, 5200 type intermediate cars), 8600 series EMUs, 2600 series, 2700 series DMUs

JR Kyushu: JR Kyushu Class DF200-7000 diesel locomotive, YC1 series Hybrid MU

JR Freight: JR Freight Class EF510 electric locomotives, JR Freight Class DF200 diesel locomotives

Major private railway corporation

Production for the following private railways include:

Hanshin Electric Railway

Keihan Electric Railway

Keihin Electric Express Railway

Nishi-Nippon Railroad

Odakyu Electric Railway

Tokyo Metro

Other railway companies in Japan

Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway (All cars)

Kobe Electric Railway (All cars)

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (All cars)

Saitama Railway

Sanyo Electric Railway (All cars)

Semboku Rapid Railway

Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (All cars)

Osaka Metro (30000 series)

Public transportation bureaus

Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau

Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau (All cars)

Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau

Sapporo City Transportation Bureau (All subways, some tramways)

Sendai City Transportation Bureau

Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation

Yokohama City Transportation Bureau

4000 series

10000 series

Monorails & AGTs

Production for Monorails and Automated guideway transits (AGT) include:

Hiroshima Rapid Transit

Kobe New Transit (All cars)

Kitakyushu Urban Monorail

Okinawa Urban Monorail

Osaka Monorail

Saitama New Urban Transit

Tama Toshi Monorail

Overseas clients

Dhaka Metro Rail – Green Train

Chinese Ministry of Railways – Type 6K, Type CRH2

Hong Kong MTR – SP1900 EMU

Hong Kong MTR Light Rail – Phase II LRV power cabs/trailers

Long Island Rail Road – C-3 bilevel cars, M9/M9A cars

MARC – MARC III bilevel commuter cars (ex-VRE C Cars refurbished by Bombardier Transportation)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA Commuter Rail – BTC-4, CTC-4, BTC-4A/4B/4C bi-level commuter cars

New York City Subway – R62, R68A, R110A, R142A, R143, R160B, R188, R211 and R268 cars

Metro-North Railroad – M8, M9/M9A cars

PATH – PA4 and PA5 cars

Panama Canal Authority – Towing locomotives along with Toyo Denki Seizo K.K. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) – C151 with Kinki Sharyo, Tokyu Car Corporation and Nippon Sharyo, C751B with Nippon Sharyo, C151A, C151B, C151C and T251 with CRRC Qingdao Sifang

Keretapi Tanah Melayu – Class 24 Diesel-electric locomotives with Toshiba Corporation

Korail – Korail Class 1000

SEPTA – Broad Street subway Class B-IV cars; LRV K Series 9000 and 100 subway–surface / suburban trolleys

Taipei Metro – C301 with Union Rail Car Partnership, C371 and C381 with Taiwan Rolling Stock Company

Taoyuan Airport MRT – commuter trains with Taiwan Rolling Stock Company, express trains

Taichung MRT – Green line EMU with Taiwan Rolling Stock Company

Taiwan High Speed Rail – 700T

Virginia Railway Express – C Car bilevel commuter cars, since sold to MARC Train

Washington Metro – 7000 series cars

From Wikipedia’s article on Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1906Founded Founded1

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