Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

When installing signs such as stores on public roads, permission from Public Works Office is required for road occupation.
In addition, please contact Administration Section Private Use Section (Tel: 045-641-7681) for details.

Signings for advertising stores on public roads are not subject to permission. In particular, in downtown areas where there are many such properties, we regularly provide corrective guidance as illegal occupied properties.
In addition, about signboards for publicity of traffic regulation, please talk as it may be targeted for permission.

If the dumping site is a public road in Naka Ward, please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).

Please contact the Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau Central Office (Tel: 045-621-6952).

The pavement structure of public roads in Naka Ward can be confirmed in the "Pavement Type Map" in Naka Public Works Office.

Restrictions on drilling of public roads in Naka Ward can be found on the "Excavation Regulation Map" in Naka Public Works Office.

There is a "Yokohama City Certified Route Map" in Public Works Office, and public roads are listed on the route map.
The "Yokohama City Certified Route Map" can also be viewed on the Internet. Please see "Yokohama no Michi (outside site)".
We do not make inquiries by telephone, so please visit Public Works Office or check on the Internet.

Please check the Yokohama City homepage "Yokohama no Michi (outside site)" or the road ledger area map in Public Works Office, the boundary survey map such as roads and waterways in Public Works Office, and confirm the position of the boundary marker.
The line connecting the landmarks such as boundary stones, studs, plates, etc. with the mark of Yokohama City is the boundary between the public and private sectors.

Please check the road ledger area map and the boundary survey map in Public Works Office on the Yokohama City homepage "Yokohama no Michi (outside site)".

Please refer to Naka Ward charge of road station administration section (Phone: 045-671-2767).

In Yokohama, we do not know the width of the road.
Please refer to road station road administration section (Phone: 045-671-2768) about announced width every line.

Please contact police department in charge for permission to use the road.

This system is supported by Public Works Office so that local residents can carry out activities such as disposal of garbage and provision of cleaning tools when cleaning and beautification of nearby roads as volunteer activities.

It is intended for volunteers who can clean and beautify roads at organizations such as Neighborhood Associations, shopping streets, schools and companies.

Local everybody and Yokohama-shi cooperate (cooperation) and make local town.

Participating organizations will voluntarily plan cleaning and beautification activities.

We will consider support according to the activities, such as providing cleaning tools and disposing of garbage, so that the activities of participating organizations can be carried out smoothly.

If the abandoned place is a public road in Naka Ward, please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).
However, in the case of areas where bicycles are not allowed, please contact the Road and Highway Bureau General Affairs Department Road Safety and Bicycle Policy Division (Tel: 045-671-3644).
Movement, storage, and return of abandoned bicycles

Please contact police department in charge of your parking area.

Public roads are managed by Public Works Office.
For public roads in Naka Ward, please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).

If you want to change the structure of the road, you need permission from Public Works Office.
In addition, please contact Road Section's own expense construction staff (Tel: 045-641-7681) as there are specifications that can be permitted.

Those that are subject to regulations such as pedestrian crossings, stop lines, maximum speeds, Chuo Line (yellow), direction instructions, etc. are under the jurisdiction of the police.
For more information, please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).

Please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681) for road lighting (illumination of roads or station squares).
At that time, please also inform us of the "management number" displayed on the pillars of the street light.
In addition, security lights such as telephone poles are managed by the local Neighborhood Association and Neighborhood Associations. If the light bulb runs out, please contact Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Associations.

Guardrails and curve mirrors on public roads are managed by Public Works Office.
Please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).

Information signs and bicycle parking signs are managed by Public Works Office, so please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).
In addition, traffic regulation signs (restricted speed, parking prohibition, suspension, etc.) are managed by police department. Please contact the police department in charge.

Crows are wild animals subject to the Wildlife Protection Act, so they will not be removed just by having a nest.
In order to protect their nests and chicks in breeding season from early spring to early summer, crows often threaten or attack approaching people as enemies.
If a parent bird is attacking, please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681) as the nest will be removed after taking procedures such as the removal of the Wildlife Protection Law to control the damage. .

The street trees are managed by Public Works Office, so please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).
The trees that protrude from the private land to the road cannot be cut in Public Works Office.

Construction on roads includes pavement repairs, road maintenance and sewerage works supervised by Public Works Office, as well as occupants (water supply, gas, electricity, telephone, etc.).
At the construction site, there is a "construction signboard" indicating the construction details, construction period, contact information, etc., so please check it.

Sewage pipe flushing work must be a designated construction shop in Yokohama City.
We introduce designated construction shop in Yokohama-shi plumbing cooperative (Phone: 045-681-6631).

A survey is required. Please contact Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).
However, Public Works Office cannot handle drainage facilities in the house, so please pay at your own expense.

There are several manholes on the road. Please contact us at the following address.
Sewer manhole　→　Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681)
Fire hydrants, water pipe manholes　→　Water Works Bureau Customer Service Center (Tel: 045-847-6262)

In the park, actions that could injure others are prohibited.
It is possible if it does not bother other users, such as a small number of catch balls, etc., and there is no danger of danger, but full-scale practice using bats etc. or games played by more than a dozen people Please refrain from.

Gateball and ground golf occupy some places in the park, but we judge that it is "free use" from the viewpoint that it can be used while giving away with other users.
Therefore, please refrain from using the entire park exclusively throughout the day or extending the range to places with playground equipment used by children.

In principle, vehicles such as bicycles are not allowed.
When children practice bicycles or pass through the park by bicycle, pay attention to other users and take care of other users, such as getting off the bicycle if necessary. .

Dogs cannot be released in the park based on the provisions of the Ordinance on the Protection and Management of Yokohama City Animals.
Be sure to wear reeds in the park.
In addition, releasing a dog in the park is a "act that may be dangerous or an act that may cause inconvenience to others" prohibited by the Yokohama City Park Ordinance.

Commercial fireworks for children are possible, but please refrain from launching fireworks such as rocket fireworks, firecrackers, etc. that may harm others.
In addition, please be careful as making noise or scattering garbage while doing fireworks may bother nearby and other users.

In the park under the jurisdiction of Naka Public Works Office, you cannot use fire to serve roasted potatoes or barbecues.

Regarding the sanitary condition of the sandbox, we carry out sanitary inspections of sandboxes at dozens of parks in the city every year, and the result is that "it is okay if you wash your hands after playing in the sandbox."

Please contact Naka Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681).

In a familiar park where the park protection society is located, the park protection society cooperates with daily cleaning and weeding.
In addition, we carry out regular cleaning of parks that we deem particularly necessary.

Trees in the park are pruned about once every multiple years, depending on the type of tree, for the purpose of healthy growth of trees.
In addition, if the branches cross the border of an adjacent private house, or if the branches and leaves are too thick and the visibility in the park is poor, the branches are cut preferentially.

There is request from area, there are many users, and we install sequentially from park which seems to have high setting effect.

It is installed in parks where there is a high need for toilets, such as parks with many users from far away and parks with facilities to stay for a long time, such as baseball fields, but in other parks, troubles due to usage manners are caused. Basically, it is not installed because it is often used.

There are various playground equipment depending on the target age and type, such as for infants and elementary school students.
In addition, when we install playground equipment, we need space for security, and setting of playground equipment narrows open space and the use situation of park may change.
Please contact Naka Public Works Office Park Section (Phone: 045-641-7681).

Please contact Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681) for emergency measures and repairs as soon as possible if there is a danger of injury.

Please contact Public Works Office (Tel: 045-641-7681) after summarizing the park you want to shoot, schedule, and activities.