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All trains on the Yamanote Line are local trains that stop at all stations.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Ridership and overcrowding[ edit ] Due to the Yamanote Line's central location connecting most of Tokyo's major commuter hubs and commercial areas, the line is very heavily used. Certain trains also start from Tamachi in the mornings and end at Shinagawa in the evenings. A complete loop takes 59 to 65 minutes. The line colour used on all rolling stock, station signs and diagrams is JNR Yellow Green No. After World War II , SCAP ordered all train placards to be romanized, and the Yamanote Line was romanized as "Yamate Line". The ridership of the Yamanote Line in is 1,, The ridership of the Yamanote Line cited in a MLIT National Transit report was 4,, trips per day, [8] but it is unclear what constitutes as the Yamanote Line and what, if any, ridership of parallel JR East railway services were included. Trains travel on the left in Japan, as with road traffic. The Seishin-Yamate Line in Kobe and the Yamate area of Yokohama also use this pronunciation. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Service outline[ edit ] Trains run from to the next day at intervals as short as 2 minutes during peak periods and four minutes at other times. The word consists of the Japanese morphemes yama, meaning 'mountain', the genitive suffix no, and te, meaning 'hand', thus literally translating as "mountain's hand", analogous to the English term "foothills". It was thus alternatively known as "Yamanote" and "Yamate" until , when the Japanese National Railways changed the pronunciation back to "Yamanote". The line also acts as a fare zone destination for JR tickets from locations outside Tokyo, permitting travel to any JR station on or within the loop. Some older people still refer to the line as the "Yamate Line". All trains stop at each station. Yamanote-sen is officially written in Japanese without the kana no の、ノ , which makes its pronunciation ambiguous in print. A JR East ridership report using JR East's internal definition of the Yamanote Line [b] reports a ridership of 1,, In Tokyo, "Yamanote" lies along the western side of the Yamanote Line loop. Trains which run clockwise are known as sotomawari 外回り, "outer circle" and those counter-clockwise as uchi-mawari 内回り, "inner circle".