Takanawa Embankment
高輪築堤 | |
Woodblock print showing a train over the embankment. | |
Tokyo City Shiba ward map (1981) | |
| Location | Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan |
|---|---|
| Region | Kantō region |
| Type | former railway embankment |
| Length | original: 2.7 km, remaining: 770m |
| Width | 6.4m |
| History | |
| Founded | 1870-1872 |
| Periods | Meiji Era |
| Site notes | |
| Discovered | 2019 |
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The Takanawa Embankment is a former railway embankment, built when Japan's first railway opened in 1872. A 770m section of the former 2.7 km long embankment was unearthed in 2019 during construction work on the JR Takanawa Gateway Station in Tokyo's Minato Ward. As of late 2021, there was debate among the railway and local government over the need to preserve the structure as an historical relic related to the construction of the railway.