History
Shin-Yokohama Station was opened on October 1, 1964 as part of the opening of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. At the time, the surrounding area was completely rural, and the site was selected as it was the intersection of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen tracks with the existing Yokohama Line. The station was connected to the Yokohama Municipal Subway system on March 14, 1985. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the JNR portion of the station came under the operational control of JR East. In the 1980s, the area around the station saw an influx of mid-size companies including computer software firms set up offices there on thanks to increased stops by the Hikari and Nozomi services (from 1992) which offered shorter travel hours to Nagoya and Shin-Ōsaka. The station building was remodeled in 1998.
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