Information board station name Why Mincho? Topic Takanawa Gateway Station March 14 6:20
At Takanawa Gateway Station, where the debate over the name of the station took place, this time the typeface of the new station building has become a hot topic on SNS.
The topic of interest is the green signboard installed above the station nameplate and ticket gates in the station building. If you look closely at the letters "Takanawa Gateway Station", the typeface is Mincho.
On the 9th of this month before the opening of the business, the inside of Takanawa Gateway Station was reported, and on SNS such as Twitter, "I think that the Mincho body is definitely difficult to see" or "Mincho body is not good? I thought it was good, but there was a lot of writing about that typeface.
Therefore, when we talked to JR East about this station name mark and information board, the station name mark and the like can be used in the first place in a shape and material suitable for each station building, and there is no particular typeface specified. about it.
By the way, JR Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit's station sign is actually Mincho, and JR Harajuku Station's station sign is brush-written. However, after all, JR's Mincho-style station name signs and information boards are rare.
Then, when asked why the Mincho font was used, it was said that Kengo Kuma, an architect who designed the station building, including the typeface of the station name label, handled it, and JR East adopted it.
This time, I asked about the typefaces such as station names on SNS, but I didn't get any comment.