History
The present Takashimachō Station opened on 4 September 1976 with the inauguration of the Yokohama Municipal Subway Line 3. The name has a much longer pedigree: a Ministry of Railways station called Takashimachō first opened here on 20 December 1914 alongside the start of Keihin Line electric trains, was renamed Yokohama Station in August 1915 (when the original Yokohama Station became Sakuragichō), and was suppressed altogether in October 1928 when JNR moved its Yokohama Station north to today's location. The Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway (now Tōkyū Tōyoko Line) operated a separate elevated Takashimachō station from 18 May 1928 until 31 January 2004. Platform doors on the subway station entered service on 12 May 2007, and the former Tōyoko Line viaduct nearby was finally demolished around autumn 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Takashimachō name traces back to Takashima Kaemon, a Meiji-era industrialist who reclaimed the land here for use as a railway depot; both the place name and the station name commemorate him.