Romancecar

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v t e Odakyu Romancecar
Legend
Kita-senju Ōtemachi Kasumigaseki   Shinjuku Omote-sandō Seijōgakuen-mae Shin-Yurigaoka Machida Sagami-Ōno Ebina Yamato Hon-Atsugi Fujisawa Isehara Katase-Enoshima Hadano Matsuda Odawara Suruga-Oyama Hakone-Yumoto Gotemba

The Romancecar (ロマンスカー, Romansukā) is Odakyu Electric Railway's name for its limited express luxury tourist services south-west of Tokyo, to mountain resorts such as Hakone and Gotemba (Mount Fuji), and beaches such as Odawara and Enoshima. When the service started in 1957 with the 3000 series SE trainset, it broke the world speed record (145 km/h or 90 mph) for a narrow gauge train. This record gave impetus for the design of the first Shinkansen, the 0 series. The 50th anniversary of the Romancecar's narrow gauge world speed record was celebrated September 28, 2007.^[1] Some of the latest designs incorporate regenerative braking.