Yokohama Line - Kikuna Station, Nagatsuta Station, Higashi-Kanagawa Station, Shin-Yokohama Station, Nakayama Station, T Kaichiba Station (Paperback)

Chapters: Kikuna Station, Nagatsuta Station, Higashi-Kanagawa Station, Shin-Yokohama Station, Nakayama Station, T kaichiba Station, Kozukue Station, Fuchinobe Station, Yabe Station, Hachi ji Station, Sagamihara Station, Kamoi Station, guchi Station, Kobuchi Station, Hashimoto Station, Machida Station, Hachi ji-Minamino Station, Aihara Station, Katakura Station, Naruse Station. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shin-Yokohama Station Shin-yokohama-eki) is a train station in Yokohama, Japan. It is serves the T kaid Shinkansen, Yokohama Line, and Yokohama Municipal Subway Line 3. Shin-Yokohama Station was opened on October 1, 1964 as part of the opening of the T kaid Shinkansen. At the time, the surrounding area was completely rural, and the site was selected as it was the intersection of the T kaid 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 the JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. In the 1980s, the area around the station saw an influx of mid-size companies including computer software firms set up offices there on thanks to increased stops by the Hikari and Nozomi services (from 1992) which offered shorter travel hours to Nagoya and Shin- saka. The station building was remodeled in 1998. Shinkansen platforms 1-4 consist of two elevated island platforms. Platforms 2 and 3 have safety fences since (prior to March 2008) some trains passed non-stop through the station at speeds higher than 200 km/h. Platforms 5 and 6 for the Yokohama Line is a ground-level island platform. The Nissan Stadium (formerly International Stadium Yokohama) (the largest stadium in Japan with a ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2921002