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Welcome to Yūrakuchō. This is the layout I have been working on for around 6 years, with construction starting last year. The plan is to recreate 1 kilometre of track around Yūrakuchō Station (有楽町駅) as accurately as I can. Openning on the 25th June 1910, the station has two island platforms serving the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku Lines. Running alongside these lines is the Tōkaidō Main Line (including Jōban Line services terminating at Shinagawa) and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen. A picture I took of the view from the station, in October 2019, looking towards Shimbashi. Another view from the opposite end of the platform with one of the towers on Tokyo Stations Yeasu exit visible in the distance. I am building the layout in two phases, each one representing half a kilometre. It will essentially be two layouts that can be exhibited separately or joined to form one large layout. Joe

I found my way here via @Kamome442’s Yurakucho project. I got back into modelling recently and have been building kits but needed a project. I’d been looking at 6.5mm Nj through finding things like Vivant but once you are down the Finescale path and especially when you think you might be scratch building point work anyway it turns out 0.6mm is important. So 7.1mm it is and the first job is to learn how to build track and modify rolling stock. it’s probably also worth mentioning that this is leading to a layout, but I don’t have space to do a big chunk of the Yamanote, nothing close. Although if it was I’d have to do ebisu, not the best from viewers perspective but it has might favourite boarding music (the harry lime theme from the third man) and one of my favourite sake shops (kimijimaya); it has a great tachibar as well. Ive been doing a bit of research and thought that would be worth sharing plus some of the how and why of what will be a very slow build.