ABSTRACT

Operated by the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company and initiated under the Minatomirai 21 Plan, one of Yokohama City’s urban plans, the Minatomirai Line is a new 4.1-km line connecting Yokohama Station with Motomachi-Chukagai Station. The Minatomirai Line directly connects with the 2-km line between Higashi-hakuraku Station on the Tokyu

Toyoko Line and Yokohama Station, which was also recently built underground. This Project has reduced the time taken to travel from Shibuya Station, Tokyo, to Motomachi-Chukagai Station to a minimum of 37 minutes. East Japan Railway Company (JR) constructed an underground station immediately under the present Yokohama Station under a contract with the operator (Fig. 1).