Kanazawa Bunko Station / Kanazawa Hakkei Station Area Barrier-Free Basic Concept (text version)

In Yokohama City, following the enforcement of the "Law Concerning the Promotion of Smooth Movement of Elderly and Disabled Persons (Barrier-Free Law)" in December 2006, various barrier-free measures such as the development of basic plans are promoted. I am.
12 areas (Kannai Station, Tsurumi Station, Yokohama Station, Shin-Yokohama Station, Mitsukyo Station, Totsuka Station, Kami-Ooka Station, Konan Chuo Station, Tsuzuki Ward   Town Center, Hoshikawa Station, Hongodai Station, Oguchi Station, Koyasu Station, Futamatagawa Station, etc.
Kanazawa Ward has formulated the Basic Concept for Barrier-Free in the area around Kanazawa Bunko Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station, where there are many facilities used by an unspecified number of people, such as administrative facilities, cultural facilities, welfare facilities, and commercial facilities.

The target area is the area around Kanazawa Ward Station, where welfare facilities such as the Kanazawa Ward Health and Welfare Center Ikiiki Center and public facilities such as the Kanazawa Ward General Government Building are concentrated.

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About barrier-free law and barrier-free basic concept

１．What is the Barrier-Free Law?
In order to improve the convenience and safety of mobility and facility use for the elderly, disabled, pregnant women, injured persons, etc., we will promote barrier-free by the following two major pillars.
（１） Promotion of barrier-free public transportation, buildings, public facilities, etc.
When constructing or introducing public transportation (passenger facilities such as stations and bus terminals, vehicles such as railway vehicles and buses), as well as specific buildings, roads, off-street parking lots and city parks, each company / building We obligate facility installation managers such as owners to comply with the "barrier-free maintenance standards (moving facilitation standards)" established for each facility. In addition, efforts are imposed on these existing facilities to comply with the standards.
（２） Promotion of barrier-free facilities in priority areas
Municipalities are located in areas centered on passenger facilities such as railway stations, where facilities used by the elderly and disabled gather, and in areas where movement between facilities is usually performed on foot (priority maintenance areas), In order to promote barrier-free transportation such as public transportation, buildings, roads, off-street parking lots, city parks, traffic lights, etc., we can create a "barrier-free basic concept" in an integrated manner.

２．What is the Basic Concept of Barrier-Free?
In priority maintenance districts, to promote barrier-free public transportation such as railway stations, public facilities such as roads and parks, and public buildings used by the elderly, disabled, etc. It defines the range of priority maintenance districts, routes (life-related routes) to make barrier-free, and the contents of projects (specific projects, etc.) to be implemented for barrier-free.
In addition, after basic design development, each company makes concrete business plan based on basic design and will carry out barrier-free in important point maintenance district. In Yokohama-shi, we carry out business in principle five years after basic design development.

In the basic barrier-free concept, facilities such as passenger facilities, government facilities, and welfare facilities used by the elderly and disabled in daily life or social life are set as living-related facilities. Mainly the condition that the facility is used by an unspecified number of people, including the elderly and the disabled, and that the means leading to the facility are mainly on foot from Kanazawa Bunko Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station. Facilities that meet are set as living-related facilities.

In addition, we have set a route to make barrier-free on the route connecting lifestyle-related facilities as a lifestyle-related route. In Yokohama City, life-related routes are classified into two types, A and B.

Life-related routes (A) are routes that carry out maintenance in accordance with the standards for facilitating movements based on the law and the maintenance standards of the Yokohama City Welfare Town Development Ordinance, or routes that have already been maintained along both standards. It is.

Life-related routes (B) cannot be set to life-related routes A due to local restrictions such as topography and urbanization. It is a route that carries out maintenance in accordance with smoothing standards. Life-related route B has been set as a unique initiative of Yokohama City.

The contents of the business of life-related facilities and life-related routes in this basic concept are as follows.

Business description of life-related facilities

Kanazawa-Bunko Station

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of home edge warning block

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Installation of widened ticket gates

Kanazawa Bunko Station East Exit Station Square

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of lids in drains
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

Kanazawa Bunko Station East Exit Administrative Service Corner

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired

Yokohama Legal Affaires Bureau Kanazawa Branch Office

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improving the ease of identifying the steps and noses of stairs and surrounding areas
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Hello Work Yokohama South

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Improvement of pavement
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Yokohama City University

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Lively center

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Kanazawa Hospital

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired

Daiei Supermarket Kanazawa Hakkei Store

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired

Yokohama Kanazawa Post Office

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improving the ease of identifying the steps and noses of stairs and surrounding areas
  • Improvement of staircase nose
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired

Kanazawabunko Branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improvement of flooring materials

Resona Bank Kanazawabunko Branch Office

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired

Mizuho Bank Kanazawabunko Branch

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Yokohama Shinkin Bank Kanazawa Branch

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Installation of equipment to guide the visually impaired
  • Improving the ease of identifying the steps and noses of stairs and surrounding areas

Other matters
The following facilities have a large-scale business plan, and drastic improvement is planned, and maintenance will be carried out in accordance with standards based on the Barrier-Free Law.

• Kanazawa Seaside Line Kanazawa Hakkei Station
• Kanazawa Hakkei Station East Exit Station Square
• Kanazawa Ward General Government Building

Other life-related facilities
The following facilities are set as living-related facilities, but there is no planned business.

• Kanazawa Ward General Government Building
• Kanazawa police department
• Kanazawa Library
• Kanazawa District Center
• Kanazawa Ward Holiday Emergency clinics
• Keikyu Sunny Mart
• Apita Kanazawabunko store
• Union center
• Kanazawa Branch of Bank of Yokohama
• Kanazawabunko Branch of Bank of Yokohama
• The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Kanazawabunko Ekimae Branch
• The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Kanazawabunko Branch

Business description of life-related routes

Route 1: National Route 16
This is the route from Seto Intersection to Himenoshima Park-mae Intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Consider removal of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improvement of flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improvement of pavement materials around blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Securing walking space

Route 2: National Route 16
It is a route from the intersection in front of Himenoshima Park to the intersection in front of Kanazawa police department.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Securing flat parts of the sidewalk
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Securing flat areas on sidewalks (vehicle entrances)

Route 3: National Route 16
It is the route from Kanazawa police department-mae intersection to Kimigasaki intersection.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Eliminate steps between sidewalks and tree-planting zones
  • Improvement of pavement around blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of elevators
  • Securing walking space

Route 4: National Route 16
It is the route from Kimigasaki intersection to Kanazawabunko station square intersection.

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Ensure the flatness of the sidewalk (vehicle entrance)
  • Securing walking space

Route 7: In front of the Kanazawa Ward General Government Building
It is a route from the intersection in front of Kanazawa police department to Keisuikai Kanazawa Hospital.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of pavement around blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 8: In front of the Kanazawa branch office of the Legal Affairs Bureau
It is the route from Mudgame Park to Kanazawa Branch Office of the Legal Affairs Bureau.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of slope

Route 9: Hello Work Yokohama Minamimae
It's the route from Kimigasaki intersection to Hello Work Yokohama south.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Securing flat areas of sidewalks connected to pedestrian crossings
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 11: In front of the Ikiiki Center
It is a route from the Mudgame 2-chome intersection to the lively center.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 12: Sasashita Kamariya Road Side Road
It is a route from Kimigasaki intersection to Bunko Underpass (Fureai no Michi).

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Consideration of relocation of telephone poles
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 13: Suzuran Street Shopping Street
It is a route from Bunko Underpass (Fureai no Michi) to Kanazawa Bunko Station East Exit Station Square.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of lids in drains

Kanazawa Bunko Station Yokohama Sta West Exit Bus Terminal
It is a route from Kanazawabunko Station intersection to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Kanazawabunko Branch.

• Projects to be maintained by FY2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improvement of steps between sidewalks and roadways
  • Consideration of securing walking space
  • Installation of facilities to raise awareness of manners for waiting for buses

Life-related routes

• Projects that will take advantage of opportunities to consider development
  • Installation of sound traffic lights, etc.
  • Strengthening the crackdown on illegal parking
  • Promotion of public relations and awareness-raising activities related to the prevention of illegal parking
  • Ensuring visibility of signs and signs
  • Implementation of traffic regulations

Other routes that require consideration

About "Bunko contact road (underpass)", there is opinion that there is danger that bicycle and pedestrian and wheelchair user come into contact in Yokohama-shi barrier-free examination meeting Kanazawa Bunko Station, Kanazawa Hakkei neighborhood district sectional meeting .
For this reason, we will work to improve safety measures by increasing the number of educational signs to improve the manners of bicycle traffic and increasing the number of post cones and curve mirrors. .

Barrier-free buildings

In this basic concept, we position building specific business, but, about barrier-free in building, owner of building, manager, occupant (tenant) cooperate and make barrier-free There are cases where maintenance cannot be carried out unless it is an opportunity for large-scale renovation such as rebuilding.
Therefore, with regard to barrier-free buildings within buildings set as living-related facilities in this basic concept, building owners, etc. should fully recognize the concept of facilitating standards for building movement, etc., and make existing facilities barrier-free from where possible. It is necessary to take advantage of opportunities such as large-scale renovations such as rebuilding, and to consider and maintain them to conform to the standards.

Yokohama City has set up a district subcommittee around Futamatagawa Station, which is composed of academics, citizens such as the elderly and disabled, related businesses and administrative organizations, and considers the basic concept of barrier-free around Futamatagawa Station. Has been advanced.

Up to now

1st District Subcommittee (October 19, 2010)

• Understanding the contents of the new barrier-free law and basic concept
• Understanding the current situation of the district

2nd District Subcommittee (January 18, 2011)

• Examination of the scope of priority maintenance areas
• Study routes to make barrier-free

3rd District Subcommittee (June 3, 2011)

• Implementation of town walk inspections

4th District Subcommittee (November 9, 2011)

• Arrangement of inspection results, etc.
• Examination of issues and countermeasures in the district

5th District Subcommittee (May 28, 2012)

• Examination of basic concept plan

After basic design development, each company formulates business plan based on basic design and, in principle, carries out business with the goal of 2017.

• We will promote the smooth development of various specific business plans and the implementation of business.
• Consider how to manage the progress of the business and evaluate the business.
• We try to inform citizens about the progress of the business and the business contents widely.
• Based on trends in new technological development, we will consider revising our business to make it barrier-free as necessary.

Contact information

Road Policy Promotion Section, City of Yokohama, Road and Highway Bureau Road Policy Promotion Department
Address ： 10 22nd floor, 6-50 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0005, Japan
Telephone ： 045-671-4086
FAX ： 045-550-4892
E-mail ： do-barrierfree@city.yokohama.jp

Kanazawa Ward Office Ward Administration Promotion Division Planning and Adjustment Section
Address ： 2-9-1 Mukagame, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0021
Telephone ： 045-788-7729
FAX ： 045-786-4887
E-mail ： kz-kusei@city.yokohama.jp