Takanawa Gateway Station Opening: First New Yamanote Line Station in almost 50 years! 高輪ゲートウェイ駅

14 March 2020 marked the opening of a new train station on Tokyo's iconic JR Yamanote Line: Takanawa Gateway Station. Mac, Founder and Lead Guide of Maction Planet, was there to experience this historic day.
On 14 March 2020, Takanawa Gateway Station opened between Shinagawa and Tamachi stations. It is the 30th stop on East Japan Railway Co.'s Yamanote Line, the first station to be added to the line since Nishi-Nippori Station in 1971. The station also serves the JR Keihin Tohoku line which connects Tokyo with Saitama in the north and Kawasaki and Yokohama in the south - the first Keihin-Tohoku Station since Saitama Shintoshin opened in 2000.
The new station, designed by Kengo Kuma, features artificial intelligence-using robots and, from 23 March 2020, an unmanned shop from which people can purchase goods that are scanned and checked-out by camera-equipped devices that can recognize the items being sold.
Mac, our Founder and Lead Guide and lover of all things Tokyo, could not bear to miss out on being at the station on opening day. Not only did he make it there, he also filmed this video to make sure the day was appropriately documented for posterity. We continue...
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[@Aiken47]

Really nice video thank you

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[@chriswhiffin5608]

Just caught up with this excellent video. Must get back to Tokyo and ride the iconic Yamanaote Line again.

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Thanks Chris! Hope to see you in the World's Greatest Metropolis soon.

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It's a very nice promotion video!

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I’ve tried to watch many of these Takanawa Gateway station videos, and I really enjoyed this one. Probably because unlike many of the others, you actually know what you’re talking about. 🙂 And I was impressed with your stamp too. 👍 Ja, mata.

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Maybe I didn’t express that well. Let me try again: This video was refreshingly good. Thanks.

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[@JoseTwitterFan]

Is beautiful! This station would have been ready just in time for the Tokyo Olympics had it not been for COVID-19, but at least it's better to have a whole year to work out the growing pains first.

[@MactionPlanet]

Let's hope everyone can see it in 2021. Both the station and the Olympic Stadium are designed by Kengo Kuma (as I'm sure you picked up in the video :-)