Yokohama harbor ranks 6th in Japan!

March 4, 2013
Dear Friends
Spring is just in the corner and it is almost there.
I have just met one of the leading businessmen in Yokohama and found out that there will be four towers  going to be built by Mori Buildings and with other major real estate companies on the northern side of Bashamichi station of Minato Mirai line; and Yokohama city government is planning to build their new city hall on the southern side of it. The towers will be 200 some meters high and mostly for residential use. There must be a need for schools to be built near those towers.
Bashamichi area near the station is one of the extended area of the site where the treaty was signed between Japan and the USA in 1850's and the land is on the strong earth. No wonder the oldest protestant church and the bell stood strongly even in the great earthquake of March 11.
I told the businessman that Yokohama should built a pier outside of the Bay Bridge around Honmoku to accommodate the big ships entering the harbor which cannot go through the bridge now. It is surprising fact that Yokohama ranks 6th in Japan for harboring Big Ocean Liners because the Bay Bridge hampers them entering into the harbor.
It should be used for cargo usually but occasionally used for the liners, at the same time extend the present subway ending in Motomachi for few miles and connect to almost no use cargo train system in Honmoku to Negishi, so people can transfer to JR line; and the use of Minato Mirai line will be better and at the same time develop the vast pier area of Honmoku.
gto