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

In response to the enforcement of the Law Concerning the Promotion of Smooth Movement of Elderly and Disabled Persons (Barrier-Free Law) in December 2006, Yokohama City has been promoting various barrier-free measures, including the development of basic concepts.
Until now, 12 districts (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, and the surrounding areas of Futamatagawa Station.
Kanazawa Ward has established a barrier-free basic concept for areas around Kanazawa Bunko Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station, where 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 Bunko Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station, a central area of Kanazawa Ward and public facilities such as the Kanazawa Ward General Government Building are concentrated.Kanazawa Ward.

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Barrier-Free Law and Basic Concept of Barrier-Free

１．What is the Barrier-Free Law?
In order to improve the convenience and safety of transportation and facility use for the elderly, disabled, pregnant women, and injured people, the following two major pillars will promote barrier-free use.
（１） Promotion of barrier-free public transportation, buildings, public facilities, etc.
When newly constructing and 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 business operator・ We require facility setting managers such as building owners to conform to the "barrier-free maintenance standards (mooth facilitation standards for movement)" established for each facility. In addition, efforts are imposed on existing facilities to conform to the standards.
（２） Promotion of barrier-free priority maintenance 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 transportation between facilities is usually performed on foot (priority maintenance districts) In order to promote barrier-free services such as buildings, roads, off-street parking lots, city parks, traffic lights, etc., we can create a "barrier-free basic design".

２．What is the Barrier-Free Basic Concept
In priority maintenance district, to promote barrier-free such as public transportation such as railway stations, public facilities such as roads and parks, public buildings used by the elderly and disabled in priority maintenance districts, routes (life-related routes) aiming for barrier-free, and contents of business (specific businesses) to be carried out 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 with the goal of five years from principle, 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 facility satisfies the condition that the facility is used by an unspecified number of people, including the elderly and the disabled, and that the means to reach the facility is mainly on foot from Kanazawa Bunko Station and Kanazawa Hakkei Station. Facilities are set as living-related facilities.

In addition, a route that connects lifestyle-related facilities has been set as a lifestyle-related route. Yokohama City categorizes life-related routes into two types: A and B.

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

Life-related routes (B) cannot be set to life-related route A due to local restrictions such as topography and urbanization conditions, but considering the road function and role of the route, moving based on the law as much as possible in consideration of the road function and role of the route. It is a route that carries out maintenance according to facilitation standards. Life-related Route B has been set as a unique initiative of Yokohama City.

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

Business description of lifestyle-related facilities

Kanazawa-Bunko Station

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of home edge warning block

Kanazawa-Hakkei Station

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Installation of widened ticket gates

Kanazawa Bunko Station East Exit Station Square

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of drain lids
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

Kanazawa Bunko Station East Exit Administrative Service Corner

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons

Yokohama Legal Affaires Bureau Kanazawa Branch Office

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improved the ease of identification between the steps and the surrounding area
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Hello Work Yokohama South

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Improvement of pavement
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Yokohama City University

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons
• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Securing a flat part of the sidewalk connected to the pedestrian crossing
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Ikiiki Center

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Kanazawa Hospital

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons

Daiei Supermarket Kanazawa Hakkei Store

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons

Yokohama Kanazawa Post Office

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improved the ease of identification between the steps and the surrounding area
  • Improving the noses of stairs
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Kanazawabunko Branch

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improvement of flooring materials

Resona Bank Kanazawabunko Branch Office

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons

Mizuho Bank Kanazawabunko Branch

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Yokohama Shinkin Bank Kanazawa Branch

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Installation of handrails
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Installation of equipment to guide visually impaired persons
  • Improved the ease of identification between the steps and the surrounding area

Other matters
The following facilities have a large-scale business plan, and drastic improvements are planned, and will implement maintenance 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 living-related facilities
The following facilities are set as living-related facilities, but there are 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
• Bank of Yokohama Branch
• Bank of Yokohama, Kanazawabunko Branch
• Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Kanazawabunko Ekimae Branch
• Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Kanazawabunko Branch

Business descriptions of lifestyle-related routes

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Examining the removal of blocks for guiding the visually impaired
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improved flatness of sidewalk surface
  • Securing a flat part of the sidewalk connected to the pedestrian crossing
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improvement of pavement materials around blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Securing walking space

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Securing flat part of the sidewalk
• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Securing flat part of the sidewalk (vehicle entrance)

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Eliminate steps between the sidewalk and tree planting zone
  • Improvement of pavement around the block for guiding the visually impaired
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons
• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Elevator installation
  • Securing walking space

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

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Ensuring flatness of sidewalks (vehicle entry)
  • Securing walking space

Route 7: In front of Kanazawa Ward General Government Building
This route is from the Kanazawa police department intersection to the medical corporation Keisuikai Kanazawa Hospital.

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of pavement around blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 8: In front of Kanazawa Branch Office, Legal Affairs Bureau
This is the route from Mukgame Park to Kanazawa Branch Office of the Legal Affairs Bureau.

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of gradient

Route 9: Hello Work Yokohama Minamimae
It is a route from Kimigasaki intersection to Hello Work Yokohama South.

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Securing a flat part of the sidewalk connected to the pedestrian crossing
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons

Route 12: Sasashita Kamariya Road
It is a route from Kimigasaki intersection to the library underpass (Fureai no Michi).

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Considering the relocation of telephone poles
  • Appropriate laying of blocks for guiding visually impaired persons

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of drain lids

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

• Business to be maintained with the goal of 2017
  • Improvement of block for guiding visually impaired persons
  • Improvement of steps between sidewalks and roadways
  • Examination of securing walking space
  • Installation of facilities to raise awareness of manners for waiting buses

Life-related Routes

• Projects that will seize opportunities in the future and consider development
  • Installation of sound signals, etc.
  • Strengthening the crackdown on illegal parking
  • Promotion of public relations and awareness-raising activities concerning the prevention of illegal parking
  • Ensuring visibility of signs and signs
  • Implementation of traffic regulations

Other routes that require consideration

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

Barrier-free buildings

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

In Yokohama City, the Futamatagawa Station Area Subcommittee, which is composed of academics, citizens such as the elderly and the disabled, and related businesses and administrative organizations, etc., has been set up, and the area around Futamatagawa Station Area Barrier-Free Basic Concept We have been examining.

Flows

1st District Meeting (October 19, 2010)

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

The 2nd District Subcommittee (January 18, 2011)

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

The 3rd District Meeting (June 3, 2011)

• Implementation of town walk inspection

The 4th District Meeting (November 9, 2011)

• Arrangement of town walk inspection results
• Examination of issues and countermeasures in the district

The 5th District Subcommittee (May 28, 2012)

• Examination of basic concept

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

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

Contact information

Planning and Coordination Department, City of Yokohama, Road and Highway Bureau
Address ： 1022nd floor, 6-50 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, 231-0005, Japan
Telephone ： 045-671-4086
FAX ： 045-651-6527
E-mail ： do-barrierfree@city.yokohama.jp

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