page_title: 0 Series Shinkansen
section_title: 16-car K Kodama sets
hierarchical_section_title: 0 Series Shinkansen / Set formations / 16-car K Kodama sets
caption_attribution_description: English: A first generation, i.e. 0-series Shinkansen high speed train standing in Tokyo railway station with a foreign visitor leaning to its rear end Deutsch: Ein "Shinkansen" Hochgeschwindigkeitstriebzug der ersten Generation, später 0-Serie genannt, steht im Bahnhof Tokyo
context_page_description: The 0 series trains were the first generation Shinkansen trainsets built to run on Japan's new Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed line which opened in Japan in 1964. The last remaining trainsets were withdrawn in 2008.
context_section_description: Between 1972 and 1973, the earlier 12-car Kodama sets were lengthened to 16 cars with the inclusion of new 13th- and 15th-batch cars, and were renumbered K1 to K47.
caption: The bulging nose of a 0 series train at Tokyo Station in July 1982
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