Built environment and walking activity in Yokohama City, Japan

Kimihiro Hino

Chapter 15 in Handbook on Transport in Asia, 2025, pp 287-302 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Walking is the most common physical activity and is essential for a healthy life. Yokohama City, a municipality in the suburbs of Tokyo, distributes pedometers to its citizens to encourage walking. It is a walkable city where the local bus network has been expanded around railway stations, enabling approximately 90% of citizens to access the stations within 15 minutes by bus or on foot. In Japanese cities, a positive correlation was observed between citizens’ walking time and the mode share of railways, and Yokohama exhibited high values for both. There, monthly and weekly variations in step counts, stratified by gender and age, were described using the pedometer data of 36,164 citizens over a 12-month period beginning in April 2018. In addition, associations were identified between citizens’ step counts and their neighborhood built environment indices, such as distance to railway stations and parks. These associations differed between young and older adults.

Keywords: Pedometer; Step count; Public transport; Transportation mode; Railway station; Older adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035309238
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