is an underground metro station

Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 located in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama

Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama

is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 230,401 and a density of 9,650 persons per km²...

, Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 operated by the Yokohama Municipal Subway

Yokohama Municipal Subway

is the metro network in the city of Yokohama, Japan, south of Tokyo In Kanagawa pref. It is operated by Yokohama City Transportation Bureau, and is operated as two lines, though 3 continuous lines exist.-Lines:Line 1 and 3 are operated as a single line...

’s Blue Line (Line 3)

Blue Line (Yokohama)

The is a line in the Yokohama Municipal Subway system of Yokohama, Japan, operated by Yokohama City Transportation Bureau. Line 3 runs from Azamino to Kannai, and Line 1 runs from Kannai to Shōnandai. All the trains join these two lines.-History:...

. It is 23.9 kilometers from the terminus of the Blue Line at Shōnandai Station

Shonandai Station

is a joint use railway station located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by Odakyū Electric Railway, Sagami Railway , and Yokohama City Transportation Bureau...

.

History

Misuzawa-shimochō Station was opened on March 14, 1985. Platform screen doors

Platform screen doors

Platform screen doors and platform edge doors at train or subway stations screen the platform from the train. They are a relatively new addition to many metro systems around the world, with some platform doors retrofitted rather than installed with the metro system itself. They are widely used in...

 were installed in April 2007.

Station layout

Misuzawa-shimochō Station has a dual opposed side platform

Side platform

A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

s serving two tracks, located five stories underground. The station was constructed using the NATM method

New Austrian Tunnelling method

The New Austrian Tunnelling method was developed between 1957 and 1965 in Austria. It was given its name in Salzburg in 1962 to distinguish it from old Austrian tunnelling approach. The main contributors to the development of NATM were Ladislaus von Rabcewicz, Leopold Müller and Franz Pacher...

, with rounded tunnels unusual for Japanese metro systems.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

Surrounding area

• St. Andrew's Cathedral
  St. Andrew's Cathedral (Yokohama)
  is a Christian church located in Yokohama, Japan, and is the diocesan cathedral of the Diocese of Yokohama, which includes all Anglican-Episcopal churches in Chiba, Kanagawa and Yamanashi Prefectures.-History:...
  
  
• Yokohama Orthodox Church
• Evangelical Lutheran Church Yokohama
• Soshin Girls' School

External links

• Mitsuzawa-shimochō Station (Blue Line)