History
Higashi-Yamata Station opened on 30 March 2008 with the inauguration of the Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line between Nakayama and Hiyoshi. Designed around the theme "a square of nurture" (はぐくみのひろば), it features a transparent glass curtain-wall façade framed by white columns intended to mirror the surrounding green hills, and a roof fitted with solar panels for energy efficiency. The station was built using single-track shield-tunneling machines that bored from the neighboring Center-Kita and Higashi-Yamata sites and were turned at vertical shafts at each end of the station to excavate the opposite tunnel.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's color is brown (specifically kōrozen, 黄櫨染), chosen to evoke the rich soil and orchards that once surrounded the site; its station name was taken from the local place-name, originally a small district called Higashi ("East") within the Ōaza Yamata established when Nakagawa village was formed in 1889, formalized as Higashi-Yamata-chō in 1939 when the area was incorporated into Yokohama.