Tokyo Monorail has opened to the press a portion of Monorail Hamamatsucho Station, which is being rebuilt as part of the Hamamatsucho Station West Exit Development Project.
The Central Gate on the 3rd floor and the South Gate on the 2nd floor, which are currently in use, will be closed and consolidated on the 3rd floor. The newly constructed north and central ticket gates will be used. The new gates will be in service on June 13.
The company’s published top view of the modified make is easy to understand.
The transfer passageway with JR Hamamatsucho Station, which has been cross-traffic since March 2018, will be slightly reshaped, but its location will remain largely unchanged, and a new central ticket gate will be built next to it.
The new north ticket gate will allow visitors to go out immediately to the north side of the station building (near the B2 exit of the Daimon Station). However, there are currently no elevators or escalators on the north side of the station due to the construction of adjacent facilities, so if you have large luggage such as suitcases, you will have to use the elevators on the central ticket gate side.
To reach the platform (5th floor) from the concourse inside the ticket gate, use the long escalator or stairs (or elevator). The boarding platform and the alighting platform are completely separated, so there will be no confusion and congestion.
Explaining the new ticket gates and concourse, Hisatsugu Miyata, President and Representative Director, said that the new brand concept is “Monorail Theater” to create a station building that raises a sense of anticipation and excitement as the starting point of a journey, and that the interior was designed to resemble the entrance of a theater, with a chic and calm space that is different from the conventional white interior. The interior is designed to resemble the entrance of a theater, with a chic and relaxed atmosphere that differs from the conventional white interior.
The commercial facilities and platforms will be renovated one by one toward around 2030, but as for the area that was once impressive with its restaurants and other stores with remnants of Showa-era retro, he said, “We have not yet decided what kind of taste it will have. We have not yet decided what kind of taste the area will have, so please look forward to it.
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