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The newly reconstructed passenger terminal is named the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, designed by Foreign Office Architects (Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi), the pier was the subject of a major international design competition attracting over 660 entries. The new pier can accommodate up to four 30,000-ton class ships or ...
Sovereign Maersk container ship at Minami Honmoku Pier, Yokohama. Yokohama Port has ten major piers. Honmoku Pier is the port's core facility with 24 berths including 14 container berths. [1] Osanbashi Pier handles passenger traffic including cruises, and has customs, immigration and quarantine facilities for international travel. [2]
The Ōsanbashi Pier, a pier on which is built the Yokohama passenger ship terminal, which has been in continuous operation since 1896, with major renovations in 1964 and 2002. The Hikawa Maru, a Japanese ocean liner built in 1929 for Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line") now a museum ship.
The Terminal has been described as a hybrid of non-Cartesian industrial infrastructure and versatile social functionality. [11] The commission was awarded after an international competition held in 1995; the terminal was completed in 2002. Yokohama Pier microstation model - isometric rendering by Guy Westbrook
Alejandro Zaera-Polo has maintained in parallel an academic career. He was the Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University (2012–2014), the Dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and the inaugural beneficiary of the Norman Foster Visiting Professorship at Yale University. [1]
Yokohama three towers (横浜三塔, Yokohama Santō), are a group of historical towers at the Port of Yokohama. They have been given the nicknames The King , The Queen and The Jack . The best view of the three towers is considered to be from Ōsanbashi Pier .
The Port Service Corporation (ポートサービス, Pōto Sābisu) is a passenger ship operating company in Yokohama. Founded in 1953, the company operates seabuses , an excursion cruise ship , and a restaurant ship, all within the Port of Yokohama .
Yokohama Station (横浜駅, Yokohama-eki) is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, [ 1 ] serving 760 million passengers a year.