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Shinkansen Production Volume

Greatest market share: 4,000 cars as of August 2, 2019

Nippon Sharyo Ltd., has been manufacturing railroad vehicles for more than 120 years. In addition to extensive penetration in the domestic Japanese market, Nippon Sharyo cars are currently running in Asia, the Middle East and North and South America. This group is an innovator in the famous “Shinkansen” bullet train, maglev motive technology, new materials, and improvements in safety, passenger comfort and ease of maintenance.

Shinkansen - Bullet Train

1964	1982	1986	1992	1997	1997	1999	2007

Series 0	Series 200	Series 100	Series 300	Series E2	Series 500	Series 700	Series N700
130mph	137mph	143mph	168mph	171mph	186mph	177mph	186mph

History of total production



1962	Prototype Shinkansen
1963
1964	Series 0 Shinkansen
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977	◆　500 cars　◆

1978
1979
1980	Series 200 Shinkansen
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985	Series 100 Shinkansen
1986
1987
1988
1989	◆　1000 cars　◆

1990	Series 300 Shinkansen
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995	Series E2 Shinkansen
1996	Series 500 Shinkansen

1997	Series 700 Shinkansen
1998
1999	Series 700 Shinkansen (Rail Star)
2000
2001
2002	◆　2000 cars　◆

2003
2004
2005	Series N700 Shinkansen
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010	◆　3000 cars　◆
2011
2012	Series N700A
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2017
2018
2019	◆　4000 cars　◆
2020	Series N700S
2021