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Minatomirai Line
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Limited express trains from Shibuya Station to Motomachi-Chūkagai Station take a minimum of 33 minutes. From 16 March 2013, the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line also inter-runs to/from the Minatomirai Line, although the Minatomirai Line runs entirely underground, it is separate from the Yokohama Municipal Subway, which is operated by the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau. 8-car Tokyo Metro 10000 series sets entered service on the Minatomirai Line. List of rapid transit systems Minatomirai Line Official Website
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Yokohama Station
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Yokohama Station is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth busiest in the world as of 2013, keikyus section consists of platforms 1 to 2, JR East operates platforms 3 to 10. Tokyu Corporation and the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company share the same underground station located in the 5th underground level of Yokohama Station, the Yokohama Municipal Subway is located on the 3rd basement level, west of the main station. Sagami Railway is a structure to the west of the main station. Yokohama station has three bus terminals, and two bus terminals are located near the station. On July 11,1887, the railway was extended from Yokohama to Kōzu Station, through trains between Shimbashi Station and Kōzu Station required a switchback at Yokohama Station. On August 1,1898, a line bypassing Yokohama Station was opened to avoid the switchback, hiranuma Station had no connection to public transport such as trams, so that major part of the passengers for the city continued to use trains that stopped at Yokohama Station. On August 15,1915, the second Yokohama Station opened close to the present day Takashimachō Station to allow Tōkaidō Main Line trains to call at Yokohama Station, the original Yokohama Station was renamed Sakuragichō Station. JR East uses this date as the date of the current Yokohama Station. The terminal of the Keihin Line had been in Takashimachō since 1914 and was merged to the new station, the government-run electric line was later this year extended to Sakuragichō. On 1 September 1923, the station was destroyed by a fire in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, six days later, the station reopened with a temporary building. The city of Yokohama and the Ministry of Railways agreed in February 1924 that the station would be relocated, on May 18,1928, the Tokyo Yokohama Railway extended from its former terminal of Kanagawa Station was connected to the station. The extension line passed through the site of the new Yokohama Station of the government railways. On October 15,1928, the third Yokohama Station opened on the side of the second station. The Tōkaidō Main Line also moved to its current route, which was the route of the line opened in 1898. The government railways and the Toyoko Line shared the station from the beginning, on February 5,1930, the Keihin Electric Railway was connected to the station. On December 27,1933, the Jinchū Railway was connected to the station, on December 9,1957, the north side underground entrance opened. On December 1,1965, the MARS on-line ticket reservation system was introduced at the station, on September 4,1976, the Yokohama City Subway Line No.3 was connected to Yokohama Station
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Naka-ku, Yokohama
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Naka-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an population of 146,563. The total area was 20.86 km², Naka Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and east of the geographic center of the city of Yokohama. In the low-lying Northern district, commonly referred to as Kannai, it hosts the Yokohama city hall, the central part of the ward includes elevated ground, this area, known as Yamate, and has long been a residential area. Along the shore lies reclaimed land upon which port facilities, part of the Minato Mirai 21 complex, to the south are the piers, oil refineries and the central port of Yokohama. The Nakamura River, a branch of the Ōoka River, cuts across the part of the ward. The northernmost and southernmost points are upland, the Yokohama Cricket Club was established in 1868. Yokohama Chinatown was also established during this period, after the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kuraki District in Kanagawa Prefecture. Yokohamas wards were established on October 10,1927, with this area becoming Naka Ward, the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake devastated downtown Yokohama. Yamashita Park was established in 1930 with landfill from the earthquake rubble, in December 1943, Minami Ward was separated from Naka Ward, which also gave up some territory to Kanagawa Ward and Hodogaya Ward. Nishi Ward was separated from Naka Ward in 1944, during World War II, the Yokohama Air Raid of May 29,1945 left 14,157 people dead, injured, or missing. After the surrender of Japan, some 74% of the land, the last of this territory was not returned to Japan until March 31,1982. Naka Ward is a commercial center and the old main business district of Yokohama. Yokohamas day labourers concentrate in the Kotobuki-cho ward near the Ishikawachō Station, historically, most used to work at the harbour, with 5500 labourers in 1982
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Kanagawa Prefecture
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Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture located in southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital of the prefecture is Yokohama, Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area. Kanagawa Prefecture is home to Kamakura and Hakone, two highly popular side trip destinations from Tokyo, the prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period. About 3,000 years ago, Mount Hakone produced an explosion which resulted in Lake Ashi on the western area of the prefecture. It is believed that the Yamato dynasty ruled this area from the 5th century onwards, in the ancient era, its plains were very sparsely inhabited. In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was part of the provinces of Sagami, Kamakura in central Sagami was the capital of Japan during the Kamakura period. During the Edo period, the part of Sagami Province was governed by the daimyō of Odawara Castle, while the eastern part was directly governed by the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo. Commodore Matthew Perry landed in Kanagawa in 1853 and 1854 and signed the Convention of Kanagawa to force open Japanese ports to the United States. Nearby Yokosuka, closer to the mouth of Tokyo Bay, developed as a port and now serves as headquarters for the U. S. 7th Fleet. After the Meiji period, many lived in Yokohama City. The Meiji Government developed the first railways in Japan, from Shinbashi to Yokohama in 1872, the epicenter of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 was deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay. It devastated Tokyo, the city of Yokohama, surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka. The sea receded as much as 400 metres from the shore at Manazuru Point, at Kamakura, the total death toll from earthquake, tsunami, and fire exceeded 2,000 victims. At Odawara, ninety percent of the buildings collapsed immediately, Yokohama, Kawasaki and other major cities were heavily damaged by the U. S. bombing in 1945. Casualties amounted to more than several thousand, after the war, General Douglas MacArthur, the chief commander of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the Occupation of Japan, landed in Kanagawa, before moving to other areas. U. S. military bases remain in Kanagawa, including Camp Zama, Yokosuka Naval Base. In 1945, Kanagawa was the 15th most populous prefecture in Japan, in the years after the war, the prefecture underwent rapid urbanization as a part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The population as of September 1,2014, is estimated to be 9.1 million, Kanagawa became the second most populous prefecture in 2006
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Shibuya Station
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Shibuya Station is a railway station in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company, Keio Corporation, Tokyu Corporation, and Tokyo Metro. Shibuya station is undergoing major renovations as a part of a long-term site redevelopment plan. While all rail and subway lines continue to operate, some station exits, the east side of the main station has since March 2013 been transformed due to the provision of through train services between the Tokyu Toyoko Line and the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line. The Shibuya Hikarie building, also owned by the Tokyu Group was opened in 2012 and features department store retail, restaurants, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, originally built and operated by a Tokyu keiretsu company, continues to use platforms on the third floor of the station building. The JR lines are on the floor in a north–south orientation. There are six exits from the main JR/Tokyu/Tokyo Metro complex, the Hachikō Exit on the west side, named for the nearby statue of the dog Hachikō and adjacent to Shibuyas famous scramble crossing, is a particularly popular meeting spot. The Tamagawa Exit on the west side leads to the Keiō Inokashira Line station, the Yamanote Line is served by two side platforms with two tracks. The Saikyo Line and Shonan-Shinjuku Line is served by one platform with two tracks. The Saikyo Line platform is located to the south of the Yamanote Line platforms, there is one underground island platform on the third basement level, serving two tracks. Two underground island platforms on the basement level serve four tracks. Two side platforms serving two tracks, the Keio station consists of two bay platforms serving two tracks. Shibuya Station first opened on March 1,1885 as a stop on the Shinagawa Line, a predecessor of the present-day Yamanote Line. The station was expanded to accommodate the Tamagawa Railway, the Toyoko Line, the Teito Shibuya Line, the Tōkyō Rapid Railway, the Den-en-toshi Line, the Hanzōmon Line. Between 1925 and 1935, an Akita dog named Hachiko waited for his deceased owner, in 1946 the infamous Shibuya incident, a gang fight involving hundreds of people, occurred in front of the station. Between December 2008 and March 2009, piezoelectric mats were installed at Shibuya Station as a small scale test, from 22 February 2013, station numbering was introduced on Keio lines, with Shibuya Station becoming IN01. The former above-ground Tokyu Toyoko Line terminal station platforms were taken out of use after the last train service on 15 March 2013, from the start of the revised timetable on 16 March 2013, Toyoko Line services used the underground platforms 3-6 shared with Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line services. The station had four 8-car long bay platforms numbered 1 to 4, JR East is in the process of rebuilding the station, with reconstruction work starting in earnest in fiscal 2015. Tokyu also plans to open a 16-story commercial/residential complex at the station in 2018, in fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by 378,539 passengers daily, making it the fifth-busiest JR East station
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Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line
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The Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, formally the No.13 Fukutoshin Line, is a subway line operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro in west-central Tokyo, Japan. The newest line in the Tokyo subway network, it opened in stages between 1994 and 2008, the Fukutoshin Line is the deepest metro line in Tokyo, with an average depth of 27 meters. At Shinjuku-sanchōme Station, the line passes under the Marunouchi and above the Shinjuku lines at a depth of 15 meters, express trains pass local trains at Higashi-Shinjuku, where additional tracks are installed for this purpose. Local trains stop at all stations, when first opened, the line operated through services to Kawagoeshi Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and Hannō Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line. This is an instance of a Tokyo Metro train operating on four companies tracks. Like most Tokyo Metro lines, the first carriage of the Fukutoshin Line is designated a women only car before, during these hours only women, children of elementary school age or younger and physically disabled passengers may board the first carriage. Express and commuter trains stop at stations marked ● and pass those marked ｜. Local trains stop at all stations, prior to its opening, only JR East had rail service between the three. The line was planned in 1972 as a run from Shiki, Saitama to Shinjuku, with the possibility of further extension to Shibuya, Shinagawa. In 1985, a second Ministry of Transportation committee proposed that the line terminate at Shibuya, part of the northern end of the original plan line became unnecessary following improvements to the Tobu Tojo Line and the beginning of through service from the Yurakucho Line. A3.2 km segment from Kotake-Mukaihara to Ikebukuro, running parallel to the Yurakucho Line on separate tracks began operation in 1994 and this segment was initially known as the Yūrakuchō New Line, and was operated with no intermediate stops. The newest segment connecting the districts of Shinjuku and Shibuya via Zōshigaya, Sendagaya and Harajuku opened for service on 14 June 2008, service to the Senkawa and Kanamechō stations, which had been bypassed by the Yūrakuchō New Line, also started on the same day. Technical problems resulted in delays of up to 30 minutes during the Fukutoshin Lines first few days of operation, on 6 March 2010, express services began stopping at Meiji-Jingūmae Station on weekends and holidays. From 10 September 2012, 10-car 5050-4000 series sets entered service on the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, with inter-running through to the Seibu Ikebukuro Line. List of railway lines in Japan Fukutoshin Line
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Island platform
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An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on twin-track routes due to pragmatic and cost-effective reasons, an alternative arrangement is to position side platforms on either side of the tracks. The historical use of island platforms depends greatly upon the location, the island platform layout is a popular, cost-effective and practical solution in modern railway systems. Island platforms allow facilities such as escalators, elevators, shops, toilets and this is essential for wheelchair accessible stations. An island platform makes it easier for users and the infirm to change services between tracks. Additionally, an island platform layout eliminates the need to construct a crossover or subway between two platforms, however, island platforms may become overcrowded, especially at busy stations, and this can lead to safety issues such as Clapham Common and Angel on the London Underground. However, for the tracks to diverge around the platform, extra width is required along the right-of-way on each approach to the station. Track centers vary for rail systems throughout the world but are normally 3 to 5 meters, if the island platform is 6 meters wide, the tracks have to slew out by the same distance. While this is not a problem on a new line that is being constructed, in addition, a single island platform makes it quite difficult to have through tracks, which are usually between the local tracks. A common configuration in busy locations on high speed lines is a pair of island platforms, high-speed trains can therefore pass straight through the station, while slow trains pass around the platforms. This arrangement also allows the station to serve as a point where trains can be passed by faster trains. The purpose of this design was to reduce unnecessary passenger congestion at a station with a high volume of passengers. Many of the stations on the Great Central Railway were constructed in this form and this was because the line was planned to connect to a Channel Tunnel. Island platforms are a normal sight on Indian railway stations. Almost all railway stations in India consist of island platforms, in Toronto,29 subway stations use island platforms. A slight disadvantage is that crossovers have to be rather long, in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, PATCO uses island platforms in all of its 13 stations, to facilitate one-person train operation. Most elevated stations in Singapores Mass Rapid Transit system use island platforms, the exception is Dover MRT Station, which uses side platforms as it is built on an existing rail line. The planned Canberra MRT Station will also use side platforms, as it also be built on an existing rail line
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Ikebukuro Station
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With 2.71 million passengers on an average daily in 2007, it is the second-busiest railway station in the world, and the busiest station in the Tobu, Seibu, and Tokyo Metro networks. It primarily serves commuters from Saitama Prefecture and other residential areas northwest of the city centre and it is the Tokyo terminal of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line and the Tobu Tojo Line. Seibu Ikebukuro Line Tobu Tojo Line Ikebukuro Station has two entrances, the East exit and the West exit. There are a number of other secondary entrances such as the JR North exit, the various Seibu exits, the JR lines run north/south through the center. The Tobu platforms are to the northwest and the Seibu platforms are to the southeast, both Tobu and Seibu operate department stores adjacent to their terminal stations. The Marunouchi Line and Yurakucho Line run east/west two stories underground, while the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line is four stories underground to the west of the station complex. The latter line runs south toward Shinjuku and Shibuya along Meiji-dori, Tokyo Metros Echika underground mall is also located inside the station. Chest-high platform edge doors were introduced on the Yamanote Line platforms on 2 March 2013, the Tobu station has three terminating tracks served by platforms 1 to 5, arranged as shown in the diagram on the right. Platforms 3 and 5 are normally used for disembarking passengers, although platform 5 is also used for boarding the evening TJ Liner services. There are three sets of ticket barriers giving access to the platforms, the South Gate at ground level, platforms 1,4, and 6 are normally used for disembarking passengers only. This station consists of three island platforms for the Marunouchi Line, Yurakucho Line, and Fukutoshin Line. The Tokyo Metro platforms are equipped with platform edge doors. The station was opened on April 1,1903 by the Japanese Government Railways, the Tōjō Railway Line station opened on 1 May 1914 with the opening of the 33.5 km line to Tanomosawa in Saitama Prefecture. As the Tokyo terminus of the line was planned to be at Shimo-Itabashi. Tobu opened a department store adjoining its station on 29 May 1962, around the same time, the Tobu station platforms were expanded with three tracks. In June 2008, the Tobu station ticket barriers were colour-coded into three zones, North, Central, and South, chest-height platform edge doors were installed on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line platforms in January 2011. The figures below are the number of passengers entering and exiting each day released by each train operator. Annual passenger figures for the station between fiscal 1903 and 1965 are as shown below, note that the figures only consider boarding passengers and a blank indicates that no data is available
Minatomirai Line
Seibu Ikebukuro Line for Hannō and Agano