EMU Seibu 30000 series travels on the Ikebukuro line
Moomin is popular novel, comic and animation series created by a Finnish illustrator, Tove Jansson. In Japan, the TV animation started in 1969, and soon became popular among children. The Moomin family lives in their house in "Moominvalley". Catching onto the popularity of Moomin, a theme park named "Moominvalley Park" was opened in Hanno City, Saitama Prefecture last year. When I visited there with my family last December, it was very crowded with families and couples due to the winter vacation season. We saw Moomin's house and enjoyed the Moomin family show. It was fantastic, but Moomin's family was supposed to hibernate during the winter according to the original story. Don't be square!
To visit Moominvalley Park, the nearest station is Hanno on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line. On the way back home, I enjoyed taking photos of Seibu trains at Musashi-Fujisawa station. My target was the EMU 30000 series, "Smile Train", because I enjoyed a lot at Moominvalley Park. The 30000 series was launched in 2008, as Seibu's new symbolic train. Its front view looks like a smiling face. The engineering concept is "trains bring smiles to people". A total of 30 sets, 216 units (10-car, 8-car and 2-car sets), were built by Hitachi. The 30000 series has aluminum alloy bodies without a gangway door as it is not operated onto subway lines. The electric control system is IGBT-VVVF (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor - variable frequency drive) inverter with 165kW induction motors.
After smiling at Moominvalley Park, I shot the Smile Train on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line.
To visit Moominvalley Park, the nearest station is Hanno on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line. On the way back home, I enjoyed taking photos of Seibu trains at Musashi-Fujisawa station. My target was the EMU 30000 series, "Smile Train", because I enjoyed a lot at Moominvalley Park. The 30000 series was launched in 2008, as Seibu's new symbolic train. Its front view looks like a smiling face. The engineering concept is "trains bring smiles to people". A total of 30 sets, 216 units (10-car, 8-car and 2-car sets), were built by Hitachi. The 30000 series has aluminum alloy bodies without a gangway door as it is not operated onto subway lines. The electric control system is IGBT-VVVF (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor - variable frequency drive) inverter with 165kW induction motors.
After smiling at Moominvalley Park, I shot the Smile Train on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line.
Moominvalley Park near Hanno station on the Seibu Ikebukuro station