page_title: Odakyu Electric Railway
section_title: Post-Millennium
hierarchical_section_title: Odakyu Electric Railway / History / Post-Millennium
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 小田急電鉄50000形（小田急ロマンスカーVSE） 鉄道友の会ブルーリボン賞受賞記念マーク装着車 English: Odakyu 50000 series "VSE" Romancecar EMU with Blue Ribbon Award commemorative sticker on the front
context_page_description: Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd., commonly known as Odakyū, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone.
  The Odakyu Electric Railway forms the core of the Odakyu Group, which comprises 101 companies and includes the Enoshima Electric Railway, Hakone Tozan Railway, Odakyu Bus, Odakyu Department Store, and Hyatt Regency Tokyo hotel.
context_section_description: Since 2000, Odakyū has been adding track in both directions from Izumi-Tamagawa Station, on Tama River, the border station of Tokyo, to just outside Setagaya-Daita Station for expanding the availability of express trains, especially for morning commuter service. The lines between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa Station are still under construction, however. Odakyu announced that the bottle-neck will be resolved by 2013.
  All of its lines are double- or quadruple-tracked within Tokyo Metropolis as of March 2018, a project first decided in December 1964 but due to NIMBY land acquisition difficulties, complex and expensive workarounds were constructed and finished, taking 1/2 a century.  The main or Odawara Line acts as a bypass route for the Tōkaidō Main Line from Tokyo to western Kanagawa.  The Romancecar 3000 series "SE" was tested at speeds of up to 145 km/h in 1957, achieving a world record for narrow gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) lines at the time. These tests also provided important data on high-speed electric multiple units (EMU), which Japanese National Railways (JNR) used for its limited express EMUs, 151 series, and 0 Series Shinkansen introduced in the early 1960s.
  Odakyu celebrated its 80th anniversary in April 2007.  The 50th anniversary of the Romancecar was celebrated in September 2007.
  Odakyu are the current shirt sponsors of football club Machida Zelvia.
caption: An Odakyu 50000 series VSE Romancecar near Shin-Yurigaoka station
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