Higashi-yamata

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Trains and departures on Green Line are not shown or counted here: the timetable data is withheld pending licensing.

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" (Hagukumi no Hiroba), 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. In building the Green Line, single-track shield machines bored one of the two tunnels as far as the station and were then turned around in vertical shafts sunk at each end of the station to excavate the tunnel in the opposite direction.

The station's colour is brown (specifically kōrozen), chosen to evoke the rich earth and the fields and orchards around the station; 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.