A Study about the User Activity of the multi-level Frontal Areas of Station in Around Behavior of the Station User

A Case Study on the Namba Frontal Areas of Station

Abstract

In recent years, many cities have begun to reevaluate the places where people live in the city center and in front of stations. In front of Namba Station, there is a multi-leveled structure that integrates the underground and aboveground areas, and the circulation in Namba is formed in a multi-level manner. The purpose of this study is to clarify the actual use of the space in front of a multi-level terminal station through a survey of ticket gate traffic and a follow-up survey. As a result, Many of the elderly are relatively likely to be near the ticket gates, while the young and middle-aged are likely to go to places a little further away from the ticket gates, such as entertainment, restaurants, and retail stores. Therefore, the circulation in Namba is dominated by the young and middle-aged. It also became clear that one of the characteristics of Namba, which is a multi-level city, is that commercial facilities such as Marui and Takashimaya are used as one way to go from the underground to the surface.