Yokohama City Notice on Noise and Vibration

• Designation of the area to which the type of environmental standards pertaining to noise based on the Basic Environmental Law is applied (outside site)(March 15, 2012 Yokohama City Notification No. 82)

• Base area for Shinkansen railway noise according to the Basic Environment Law (Kanagawa Prefecture Notification No. 316, Notification No. 512, April 22, 1977)

Refer to the Kanagawa Prefecture website (outside site)

(Regulation data provision service → Kanagawa Prefectural Law Collection → Part 5 Environment Chapter 3 Pollution Prevention → Notification No. 316, Notification No. 512)

• Designation of regional types of environmental standards related to aircraft noise (Kanagawa Notification No. 426, May 23, 1980)

Refer to the Kanagawa Prefecture website (outside site)

(Legal Data Provision Service → Kanagawa Prefectural Regulations → Part 5 Environment Chapter 3 Pollution Prevention → Notification No. 426)

There is no target area in Yokohama.

• Environmental standards related to noise (outside site)(Announcement No. 64 of the Environment Agency, September 30, 1998)

• Designation of areas that regulate noise generated in specific factories and noise generated by specific construction work (outside site)(March 25, 1986 Yokohama City Notification No. 58)

• Setting of areas that require particularly calm based on regulatory standards pertaining to specific construction work (outside site)(March 25, 1986 Yokohama City Notification No. 59)

• Area (outside site) based on a ministerial ordinance that stipulates the limit of vehicle noise in the designated area based on the provisions of Article 17, Paragraph 1 of the Noise Control Law(March 24, 2000 Yokohama City Notification No. 78)

• Designation of areas that regulate vibration generated in specific factories and vibration generated by specific construction work (outside site)(March 25, 1986 Yokohama City Notification No. 61)

• Settings (outside site) such as areas that require special calm based on vibration regulation standards for vibration pertaining to specific construction work(March 25, 1986 Yokohama City Notification No. 62)

• Area based on rule to establish limit of road traffic vibration and time (outside site)(March 25, 1986 Yokohama City Notification No. 63)