Shin-Yokohama Railway Station
| Shin-Yokohama ( 新 横 浜 ) | |
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 Main building and bus station (May 2013)
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Tower station |
| Platform tracks | 6 (train) / 2 (subway) |
| abbreviation | JH16 / B25 |
| opening | October 1, 1964 |
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| City / municipality | Yokohama |
| prefecture | Kanagawa |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 30 '25 " N , 139 ° 37' 3" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 8 m TP |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Japan | |
The Shin-Yokohama Station ( Jap. 新横浜駅 , Shin-Yokohama-eki ) is a train station on the Japanese island of Honshu , jointly operated by the railways JR Central and JR East , as well as from the office of the city of Yokohama . The major railway junction is located in Kanagawa Prefecture in the area of the city of Yokohama , more precisely in the district of Kōhoku-ku . It has served as Yokohama's gateway to the Shinkansen high-speed network since it opened in 1964 .
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Shin-Yokohama is an intersection station where three different lines cross on different levels. The most important (and the real reason for its construction) is the high-speed Tōkaidō-Shinkansen of the JR Central railway company . It is the most important railway line for passenger traffic in Japan and connects Tokyo with Shin-Osaka . The station is opened beyond by the Yokohama Line of JR East , the Yokohama with Hachiōji connects. In addition, there is the Blue Line of the Yokohama subway operated by the Yokohama City Transportation Department .
Shin-Yokohama is served by all Shinkansen trains on the high-speed line. This applies to the types of trains Kodama , Hikari and Nozomi , which differ in the number of intermediate stations they serve. There are eight to eleven connections in each direction every hour. The eastern terminus is Tokyo in all cases, the western terminus are Nagoya , Shin-Osaka, Okayama , Hiroshima or Hakata .
On weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and on weekends between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., three express trains are offered every hour on the Yokohama Line , running from Hachiōji to Higashi-Kanagawa and then via Yokohama to Sakuragichō . The offer is supplemented by local trains between Hachiōji and Higashi-Kanagawa and between Hashimoto and Sakuragichō (three times an hour each), which results in six connections per hour. During the rest of the day, there are no express trains and are replaced by local trains (five per hour in the evening, up to 15 during rush hour ), with the majority being tied through to Sakuragichō (in individual cases to Ōfuna ).
The underground runs from 5 a.m. to midnight, five to 14 times an hour, depending on the time of day. There is a large bus station on the northern station forecourt . It consists of two long bus platforms that are connected to each other and to the reception building by overpasses, stairs and elevators. It is served by around 20 lines of the municipal transport office and the companies Kanagawa Chūō Kōtsū , Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus , Keikyū Express Bus , Sakura Kōtsū , Sōtetsu Bus and Tōkyū Bus .
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The tower station stands on the border between the districts of Shinyokohama and Shinoharachō, which both belong to the district of Kōhoku-ku . The Nissan Stadium and the Yokohama Arena are both just a few minutes' walk away . The partially enclosed high station for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which runs on a viaduct , is oriented from northeast to southwest . This part of the station has four tracks on two central platforms . On its north side is the reception building , which was newly built in 2008 and is 19 stories high and has four more underground floors. It is called Cubic Plaza Shin-Yokohama and includes a shopping center with 65 stores, several restaurants and a hotel. The building is owned by Shin-Yokohama Station Development Company , a subsidiary of JR Central.
The ground-level section of the Yokohama Line is located approximately at a 30-degree angle to the Shinkansen station in an east-west direction. It has two tracks on a covered central platform. Its reception building spans the facility in the form of a riding station and is connected to the basement of the Shinkansen station and the southern station forecourt. The underground station is on the second basement floor, while the first basement floor serves as a distribution level . The two tracks are on a central platform. To the north there is an additional pull-out track on which individual trains turn in the early morning. The platform has been equipped with half-height platform screen doors since 2007 to increase security .
In the 2017 fiscal year, an average of 132,507 passengers used the station every day. Of these, 33,307 were on JR Central, 63,110 on JR East and 36,090 on the subway.
Tracks
- railroad
| 1/2 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Tokyo |
| 3/4 | ▉ Tōkaidō Shinkansen | Nagoya • Kyoto • Shin-Osaka |
| 5 | ▉ Yokohama Line | Higashi-Kanagawa • Yokohama • Sakuragichō |
| 6th | ▉ Yokohama Line | Machida • Hashimoto • Hachiōji |
- Subway
| 1 | ▉ Blue line | Yokohama • Totsuka • Shonandai |
| 2 | ▉ Blue line | Azamino |
history
At the beginning of the 1960s there were only rice fields and individual buildings in the area. The Yokohama line to Hachiōji had existed since 1908 , but the line was only single-track at the time and there was no train station nearby. Real estate agents bought the private land and told residents and local authorities that the land was needed to build a Nissan / Ford auto plant . In fact, however, the brokers stood with the Japanese State Railways and politicians from the Liberal Democratic Party to acquire the land for a station on the planned Tōkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line , although the public did not yet know about it. The deception was later exposed in a novel and documentary called Kuro No Cho Tokkyu . Police opened several investigations, but the suspected brokers, state railroad workers and government officials fled abroad until the statute of limitations on the alleged offenses had expired.
The opening of the new station "on the green field" took place on October 1, 1964, together with the entire Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka . In the beginning, the Shinkansen service was limited to Kodama trains with stops at all stations. As the area around the train station developed into an important sub-center of Yokohama with numerous office buildings and hotels within a few years , demand rose by leaps and bounds. The Yokohama line was expanded to two tracks in 1967/68 and increasingly Hikari trains stopped on the high-speed line from 1976 , and Nozomi trains from 1992 . On March 14, 1985, the City Transportation Bureau extended the subway's Blue Line from Yokohama Station to Shin-Yokohama.
As part of the state railway privatization on April 1, 1987, the station became the property of two new companies, the Shinkansen station section at JR Central and the station section of the Yokohama line at JR East . On March 18, 1993, the metro was extended to Azamino . In October 1998, extensive renovation work was completed at the station. Since the timetable change on March 15, 2008, all Shinkansen trains have stopped in Shin-Yokohama.
Adjacent train stations
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| Shinagawa |
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| Kita-Shin-Yokohama |
 Yokohama Subway Blue Line |
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Web links
- JR Central Station Information (Japanese)
- JR East Station Information (Japanese)
- Yokohama Subway Station Information (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. (Timetable Tōkaidō Shinkansen to the west). shinkansen.co.jp, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Weekday timetable in the direction of Higashi-Kanagawa. JR East , 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 (Japanese).
- ^ Cubic Plaza Shin-Yokohama. www.cubicplaza.com, accessed April 16, 2020 (Japanese).
- ↑ 神奈川 県 県 勢 要 覧 (平 成 30 年度). (PDF, 1.2 MB) Kanagawa Prefecture, 2018, accessed April 16, 2020 (Japanese).
- ^ Robert Whiting: Negative impact of 1964 Olympics profound. The Japan Times , October 24, 2014, accessed April 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大事 典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-02980-6 .
- ↑ a b Yokohama. urbanrail.net, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2020 (English).
- ↑ JR7 社 14 年 の あ ゆ み. In: kōtsū Shimbun , April 2, 2001, p. 9.