Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines

Last Updated February 22, 2024

Until now, Yokohama City has been promoting the creation of calm and beautiful night scenery through rules based on the landscape system and lighting up historical buildings. On the other hand, in recent years, due to advances in lighting technologies such as multicolor LED lighting and projection mapping, and the promotion of the nighttime economy, large-scale night landscape production using light, mainly in the coastal area of the city center, is increasing.
Citizens and businesses and the government will deepen their understanding of the direction and direction of night landscape formation, reflect them in individual plans and designs, and light events that citizens and tourists can enjoy will be further promoted. In order to make the night scenery of the city coastal area more attractive, we have formulated the "Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines" in order to make the night scenery of the city center coastal area more attractive.
We hope that the use of these guidelines will further promote economic revitalization and nighttime economy initiatives in the coastal area of central Tokyo.

Night scenery in the coastal area of the city center

Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines

Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines Main Part (Batch Version) (PDF: 15,258KB)

Outline version of Yokohama City Central Seaside Night Landscape Formation Guidelines (PDF: 2,344KB)

Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines (enforced in July 2022) Main part (divided version)
Cover and Table of Contents	Cover Contents	Cover and Table of Contents (PDF: 432KB)
Chapter 1 Introduction	Background and Purpose of Developing Guidelines Positioning of Guidelines	Chapter 1 (PDF: 1,536KB)
Chapter 2 Basic matters when thinking about night scenery	Concept of landscape creation in Motoichi Characteristics of the coastal area of central Tokyo Characteristics of Light	Chapter 2 (PDF: 1,428KB)
Chapter 3 Direction of night scenery in the coastal area of central Tokyo	Direction of Night Scenery What we want to achieve through an attractive night landscape	Chapter 3 (PDF: 7,633KB)
Chapter 4 Landscape promotion area and cityscape consultation area in the coastal area of central Tokyo (Kannai, Minato Mirai 21 Chuo / Shinko)	Kannai-District Minato Mirai 21 Central District Minato Mirai 21 New Port Area	Chapter 4 (PDF: 3,835KB)
Chapter 5 The ideal way of light	Improve the quality of light Lighting methods, etc. that make use of the characteristics of each space Other considerations	Chapter 5 (PDF: 2,671KB)
Reference materials and back cover	Reference Materials Back cover	Reference materials and back cover (PDF: 762KB)

We do not sell or distribute booklets. If you would like to read it on paper, please come to Municipal Central Library, City Hall 3F Citizen Information Center or 29F Landscape Adjustment Section window.
In planning in scenery promotion district in scenery plan and cityscape discussion district based on scenery regulations, report, discussion may be necessary. For more information.What is the Yokohama City Landscape Plan / Urban Landscape Consultation Area?Please take a look at it.

Development process of night landscape formation guidelines in the coastal area of Yokohama City

[Press Release] Aiming for a more attractive night view of Yokohama-We have formulated guidelines for the formation of night landscape in central Yokohama city area-

Press release document (July 28, 2022) (PDF: 297KB)

[Request for Opinion] Yokohama City Central Seaside Area Night Landscape Formation Guidelines (draft)

For development of "Yokohama-shi central coastal area night scenery formation guidelines", we announced plan and raised opinions of citizens.

Yokohama City Central Seaside Night Landscape Formation Guidelines (draft) (PDF: 8,346KB)

Public opinion offer summary
Implementation period	From Friday, April 1, 2022 to Monday, May 2, 2022
Submission method	Electronic application or written submission by e-mail, mail, fax, or bring
Results of implementation	20 people (19 electronic applications, 1 e-mail), a total of 38 results (PDF: 425KB)

[Press Release] We raise opinions about Yokohama-shi central seaside area night scenery formation guidelines (plan)!

Press release materials (March 29, 2022) (PDF: 430KB)

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