Shin-Yokohama Station
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Shin-Yokohama Station
新横浜駅 |
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The main station building and forecourt, March 2012
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| Location | Shinohara-chō, Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan |
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| Connections | Bus terminal |
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| Opened | 1964 |
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| Passengers (JR East, FY2012) | 57,439 daily |
Shin-Yokohama Station (新横浜駅 Shin-yokohama-eki?) is a railway station in Yokohama, Japan, jointly operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and Yokohama City Transportation Bureau.
Shin-Yokohama Station is served by the Tokaido Shinkansen, Yokohama Line, and Yokohama Subway Blue Line.
The station consists of an island platform at ground level serving the Yokohama Line, with two elevated island platforms for the shinkansen tracks overhead. The shinkansen platforms 2 and 3 have safety fences, as some trains passed non-stop through the station prior to 2008. The JR Central portion of the station includes a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.
View of the shinkansen platforms from the eastern end of platform 3/4, February 2011
The Yokohama Line platforms, August 2008
Real estate agents purchased the private property in the area by telling residents and local government officials that the land was needed to build a Nissan/Ford motor vehicle factory which would provide increased employment. Actually, however, the agents were in league with JNR and national politicians from the LDP party to acquire the land for the proposed station, which was not disclosed to the public at this time. The subterfuge was subsequently exposed in a novel and popular film called Kuro No Cho Tokkyu. The police opened several investigations, but the suspected agents, JNR employees, and political staffers fled the country until the statute of limitations on the alleged crimes expired.
Shin-Yokohama Station opened on October 1, 1964, with the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen. At the time, the surrounding area was completely rural, and the site was selected as it was the intersection of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks with the existing Yokohama Line. The station was connected to the Yokohama Municipal Subway system on March 14, 1985. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. The station building was remodeled in 1998.
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