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- Parks in Yokohama City will be non-smoking from April 2025.
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Parks in Yokohama City will be non-smoking from April 2025.
Aiming at "Yokohama, a town that nurtures the next generation of children who have raised children together," the Yokohama City Park Ordinance aims to secure an environment where children can play safely and with peace of mind, and to promote passive smoking measures in a park where many people gather and relax. We revised a part of and added "smoking" (*) as an act to prohibit in municipal parks. ※ Manufactured tobacco (cigarettes and heated tobacco) under the Tobacco Business Law are eligible.
Last updated on March 5, 2025.
About patrol in park
From April 1, 2025, trust company of city carries out patrol of park for public awareness enlightenment that smoking in park became prohibited act.
As a target, we go around parks where smoking is common.
Information on dedicated inquiries
From April 1, 2025, we will set up a dedicated inquiry window on smoking cessation in the park and rules for using the park.
Details will be announced at the end of March.
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Non-smoking Parks
This is to eliminate unwanted passive smoking in a park where many children gather, and to ensure an environment where everyone can play safely and safely and comfortably.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but please contact us. In that case, please let us know the name of the park and the time when you saw smoking. If necessary, adjust to perform a patrol.
Details of the contact point will be announced at the end of March.
Please contact the dedicated inquiry window.
Parks established based on the City Parks Law managed by Yokohama City are eligible.
[Reference]
city park Data Collection of Yokohama City
(Because it will be posted at the time, parks that have been released since then may also be eligible, so please contact us if you are unsure.)
Tobacco subject to the prohibition of this ordinance applies to manufactured tobacco under the Tobacco Business Act (Article 2) (those subject to tobacco tax).
Heated tobacco is also included in manufactured tobacco, so it is eligible.
[Reference] Examples of targeted tobacco products
・Cigarettes, cigar tobacco
・Heated tobacco
[Examples of Major Products]
Philip Morris Aikos (IQOS)
JT Ploom Tech (Ploom TECH)
glo, British American Tobacco Japan
・Pipe tobacco
There is no permanent smoking area in the park.
In large-scale events, etc., where a large number of visitors are expected to stay for a long time, from the viewpoint of preventing passive smoking, in consultation with the organizer, temporary smoking areas will be set up by the organizer as necessary. Is allowed.
[Reference] Examples of large-scale events
Large-scale events, etc., where a large number of visitors are expected to stay for a long time, are assumed to be sports performances, concerts, and events that use the entire park as venues.
About Yokohama-shi park regulations partial revision contents
"Smoking" (*) has been added as an act prohibited in municipal parks.
※ Manufactured tobacco (cigarettes and heated tobacco) under the Tobacco Business Law are eligible.
Partial amendments (enforced on April 1, 2025)
(Prohibition of acts)
Article 5 No one shall perform the acts listed in the following items in the park. Provided, however, that those pertaining to permission based on the provisions of Article 5 (1) of the Act, Article 6 (1) or (3) of the Act, Article 6 (1) or (2) of the Act, or Article 7 (2) Is not this limit.
(1) Capture or kill birds and beasts.
(2) Cutting bamboo trees, collecting plants, or damaging them.
(3) Discarding garbage and other filth and performing other unsanitary acts.
(4) Dig up land, collect debris, and change other land characteristics.
(5) Damage or soil the land and property in the park, or change the original state.
(6) To live in the park.
(7) To establish a structure.
(8) Depositing debris, wood, etc.
(9) Advertise or spray advertising materials.
(10) Smoking (meaning smoking prescribed in Article 28, Item 2 of the Health Promotion Act (Act No. 103 of 2002)).
(11) Doing acts that may be dangerous or disturb others.
(12) In addition to the preceding items, perform acts that hinder the use and management of the park.
Ordinance
Public relations materials
Handbill
Posted materials
In addition to posting "non-smoking in the park" on parking stops at all parks and signboards for use of the park, signboards etc. are posted sequentially at fences in the open space in the park and places with many users.
Future Responses
Requests to Citizens
Even in places other than parks, smokers are obliged to consider ways to prevent unwanted passive smoking under the Revised Health Promotion Law.
Please continue to cooperate in efforts to prevent passive smoking.
[Reference] Efforts to Smoking in Yokohama City
Future Plans
From April 2025, when the ordinance will be enforced, we plan to expand public relations so that it can reach all generations, such as transmitting videos through traffic advertisements and SNS.
Efforts to date
The following efforts were made to revise the regulations.
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Inquiries to this page
Parks and Green Space Management Division, Green Area of Green Environment Bureau Park
Phone: 045-671-2642
Phone: 045-671-2642
Fax: 045-550-3916
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