Safety and Disaster Preparedness Around Shinagawa Station

Shinagawa is a heavily used terminal throughout the day, and conditions differ substantially between the Takanawa Exit, Konan Exit, office districts, nightlife areas and residential streets. It is therefore inappropriate to label the entire station area simply as safe or unsafe. Minato City publishes a multilingual safety handbook covering crime trends, crime prevention and fire safety in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. For disasters, the city provides separate maps for tsunami exposure, liquefaction, seismic shaking, flooding, storm surge and landslide hazards. Takanawa includes both elevated and lower terrain, while parts of Konan are reclaimed land, so risks should be checked for the exact address rather than inferred solely from walking distance to the station. Minato City is also progressively developing evacuation routes, temporary refuge spaces and related resilience infrastructure around Shinagawa and Takanawa Gateway stations. ([港区公式ホームページ][3])