Station

Mitsuzawa-shimocho

三ツ沢下町

Mitsuzawa-shimocho
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Train service

Weekday departures: 319/day · Sat & holiday departures: 266/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:17 / 24:34

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (27)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Mitsuzawa-shimochō Station opened on 14 March 1985 as an underground station on the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (Line 3), located beneath National Route 1 (Yokohama-Shindō). The station was excavated using the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM), producing rounded large-section tunnels that are unusual for Japanese metro systems. Because the line passes partly beneath private property, the platforms were placed deep underground — roughly 27 metres below the surface — for noise mitigation. Wheelchair-accessible elevators and toilets were added in July 2002, and platform screen doors entered service on 28 April 2007.

Notes

The station was bored using the NATM method, producing the rounded dome-shaped platforms uncommon in Japanese subway design and reminiscent of European metro systems.

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