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Yabachō Station
is an underground metro station located in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Nagoya Municipal Subway. It is located 2.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Meijō Line at Kanayama Station (Aichi), Kanayama Station. This station provides access to several department stores in Sakae, Nagoya, Sakae such as Parco (retailer), Parco and Matsuzakaya. History Yabachō Station was opened on 30 March 1967. It is named after the historic neighbourhood of Yaba-chō, Nagoya, Yaba-chō. At the entrance to the turnstiles, a mechanical water clock by the French scientist Bernard Gitton was installed in the 1990s. Lines * ** (Station number: M04) Layout Yabacho Station has two underground opposed side platforms. Platforms References External links Official web page Railway stations in Japan opened in 1967 Sakae, Nagoya {{Aichi-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naka-ku, Nagoya
is one of the 16 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward has an estimated population of 90,918 and a population density of 9,693 persons per km2. The total area is 9.38 km2. Geography Naka Ward is located in the center of Nagoya city. Largely hemmed in by Sakura-dōri (桜通り), Ōtsu-dōri (大津通り), Fushimi-dōri (伏見通り) and Tsurumai-dōri (鶴舞通り), it contains the main shopping area of Sakae, Nagoya, Sakae which includes a massive air-conditioned 5 square-kilometer underground shopping mall, mall and the 'after-five' semi-red light districts of Nishiki and Shin-sakae. Surrounding municipalities *Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Chikusa Ward *Kita-ku, Nagoya, Kita Ward *Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Higashi Ward *Nishi-ku, Nagoya, Nishi Ward *Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Nakamura Ward *Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Shōwa Ward *Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Atsuta Ward *Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Nakagawa Ward History Naka Ward was one of the ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakae, Nagoya
is an area in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. It refers to the areas around Sakae intersection, Sakae Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway and Sakae Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line. Sakae is in the heart of Nagoya and is, along with Nagoya Station, one of Nagoya's main commercial districts. Overview Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu founded Nagoya in 1612 as a grid-planned castle town after relocating the Owari clan's ancestral seat from Kiyosu to Nagoya, also known as the "Kiyosu-goshi". The Great Manji Fire of 1660, which destroyed half of the castle town, is when the name Hirokoji, or "widened small street", first appeared. The Horikiri road (Hisaya-cho to Choja-machi), which runs along the southern boundary of the grid, has been enlarged from 5 meters to 27 meters. Hirokoji-dori, the hub of entertainment and recreation, would be crowded with people on festival days. Hirokoji-dori, which connects Nagoya Station to the lively, central Sakae neighborhood during the Mei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, one for each direction of travel, is the basic design used for double-track railway lines (as opposed to, for instance, the island platform where a single platform lies between the tracks). Side platforms may result in a wider overall footprint for the station compared with an island platform, where a single width of platform can be shared by riders using either track. In some stations, the two side platforms are connected by a footbridge or tunnel to allow safe access to the alternate platform. While a pair of side platforms is often provided on a dual-track line, a single side platform is usually sufficient (trains are usually only boarded from one side) for a single-track line. Layout Where the station is close to a level crossing (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Gitton
Bernard Gitton (); born 24 June 1935) is a French physicist and artist who has built modern water clocks, fountains and other devices relating art and science. Biography He constructed "Water clock (Indianapolis), The Water Clock", at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, "Clepsydra Water Clock" at Abbotsford, British Columbia, "Clock of Flowing Time, Time Flow Clock" Europa-Center, Europa Center, Berlin, and "Time-Flow Clock" Rødovre Centrum, Denmark. Also, he projected the Water Clocks displayed at the Iguatemi Mall in São Paulo city and the :pt:Iguatemi Porto Alegre, Iguatemi Mall in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The clock stands there since 1983. One of his clocks was installed in the 1990s at Yabachō Station in Nagoya, Japan. In 2011 a Waterclock of Gitton was installed in the entrance hall of NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. References External links * http://sites.google.com/site/simeonlapinbleu/gitton * http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/Cadran-clepsydre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
