Yamanote & Keihin-Tohoku Line Takanawa Gateway Station

[Pashina12]

Actually that reminds me a lot of China, too.

[cteno4]

I bought a 100yen tee shirt with Japanese hand painted calligraphy on it in Tokyo on my first trip to Japan. It was like 94F and I was soaked and stinking and had to catch the Shinkansen back to Kyoto that evening.p, is a clean shirt helped. Later that year I was wearing it at my parents and the Japanese neighbor was looking at me strange so I asked and he said he was trying to figure out the shirt said. I walked over and he read it as "love small creatures but kill them". His best guess was one of those translations a few times Japanese<>English that ended up with such a mangled phrase. 

 

Jeff

[Socimi]

Segakuji is probably the best option due to the nearby Toei & Tokyo Metro subway station, but personally, i'd like to call it "Minami-Mita".

Edited December 1, 2017 by Socimi

[kvp]

My suggestion would be 'Shinagawa Yard' as the train yard for Shinagawa station was there. Scotland Yard (the London police HQ) got its name the same way from the yard of the scottish representatives. They even added 'New' to it when it was moved to a new location.

[Pashina12]

Reminds me of how Baltimore's baseball stadium got its name... Camden Yard was the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's big yard there...

[railsquid]

For reference the provisional name is 品川新駅 (Shinagawa Shin-Eki)

 

[Pashina12]

1 hour ago, railsquid said:

For reference the provisional name is 品川新駅 (Shinagawa Shin-Eki)

 

 

What a remarkably sensible name!

[Drunkenclam]

Mr Kimura gives the right answer

(ok ok, so I'm an anime fan as well)

 

 

[railsquid]

New station to be named "Takanawa Gateway" (高輪ゲートウェイ) :

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20181204-00010014-abema-bus_all

[bikkuri bahn]

56 minutes ago, railsquid said:

New station to be named "Takanawa Gateway" (高輪ゲートウェイ) :

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20181204-00010014-abema-bus_all

Yuck...Blatant commercialism on JR East's part, more appropriate for an office building or shopping center.  The most popular choice was "Takanawa", which was what should have been selected.  Reaction so far has been negative- "makes it sound like a subsidiary station", "hard to pronounce", "clunky", "unnecessarily long", "people will shorten it to "Taka-ge" disparagingly", etc...

Edited December 4, 2018 by bikkuri bahn

[railsquid]

It does sound like one of those stations you find on newer lines out in remote suburbs, "Urayama Sparkling Town" and the like.

[railsquid]

I'll just leave this here...

 

[trainsforever8]

5 hours ago, railsquid said:

I'll just leave this here...

 

Please tell me this is just a joke regarding JR East's name choice for Takanawa? 

[railsquid]

https://www.therisingwasabi.com/new-yamanote-station-to-be-named-takanawa-gateway-mcgatewayface/

 

[bill937ca]

A video ride past the new Yamanote Line Takanawa Gateway Station.

 

Video by tsu1112k

 

[Densha]

I merged a couple of threads about Takanawa Gateway Station together into one topic...

 

The Gateway part still cracks me up. 😂

[HankyuDentetsu]

In case it's of interest, here's a few images of the wider Takanawa Gateway development, first brought to my attention by the venerable Momo1435 at skyscrapercity.com

 

This whole development is going to be seriously impressive, and it's great to see the Gateway (indeed, still a terrible name haha!) Station forming the heart of the development. 

 

https://i.imgur.com/jhK7qth.jpg

https://www.pickardchilton.com/sites/default/files/1617_N48_webslider.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2Gb46ph.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QpZv5O9.jpg

[bill937ca]

Takanawa Gateway Station Opened: JR Yamanote Line New Station/March 19. 2020  Video by Rail Note.

 

 

[bill937ca]

Another video from March 17, 2020. video by Ikitan / Destination channel.