Shin-Yokohama Station

Shin-Yokohama Station is served by the Tōkaidō 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. Also, The JR East portion of the station includes a Reserved Seat Ticket Vending Machines.

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.[1]

Shin-Yokohama Station opened on October 1, 1964, with the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen.[2] 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.[3] 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.

In fiscal 2012, the JR East station was used by an average of 57,439 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[4] The JR East passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

The Nissan Stadium (formerly International Stadium Yokohama) (the largest stadium in Japan with a capacity of 72,327 seats) was the host to the 2002 FIFA World Cup final match and is the home of the Yokohama F Marinos soccer team. The Nissan Stadium and the Yokohama Arena are each about a 10-minute walk from the station. The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is about a 5-minute walk from the station.

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• Shin-Yokohama station information (JR Central) (in Japanese)
• Shin-Yokohama station information (JR East) (in Japanese)
• Shin-Yokohama station information (Yokohama Subway) (in Japanese)