Urban Expressways (Japan)
Urban expressways (都市高速道路, Toshi Kōsokudōro) are intra-city expressways which are found in many of Japan's largest urban areas. Due to lack of space many of these expressways are constructed as viaducts running above local roads. The two largest networks are the Shuto Expressway in the Tokyo area and the Hanshin Expressway in the Osaka area. There are other smaller networks in Nagoya, Hiroshima, Kitakyūshū, and Fukuoka. Each network is managed separately from each other (the Fukuoka and Kitakyūshū Expressways are managed by the same company but are not physically connected to each other).
Currently half of the tolled urban expressways operate on a flat-rate toll system (the toll is the same regardless of the distance travelled on the network), however the Shuto Expressway, Hanshin Expressway and Nagoya Expressway have moved to a distance-based toll system for vehicles equipped with ETC. Vehicles travelling on these roads not equipped with ETC, must now pay the maximum toll achievable from the entrance the vehicle enters from.[1][2][3]
Urban Expressways in Japan
- Shuto Expressway
- Tokyo Expressway (Interconnected to the Shuto Expressway on both ends. Toll free.)
- Hanshin Expressway
- Nagoya Expressway
- Fukuoka Expressway
- Hiroshima Expressway
- Kitakyūshū Expressway
References
External links
- Official website
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Road Bureau (in English)
- Map of expressway routes (in English)
- 全国の高速道路ガイド (in Japanese)
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- C3 Tokyo Gaikan
- C4/E66 Ken-Ō
- CA Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line
- E4 Tōhoku
- E4A Aomori
- E4A Hachinohe
- E5 Dō-Ō
- E5A Sasson
- E5A Shiribeshi
- E6 Jōban
- E7 Nihonkai-Tōhoku
- E7/E46 Akita
- E8 Hokuriku
- E13 Tōhoku-Chūō
- E14 Tateyama
- E17 Kan-etsu
- E18 Jōshin-etsu
- E19 Nagano
- E38/E61 Dōtō
- E45 Sanriku
- E46 Kamaishi
- E48 Yamagata
- E49 Ban-etsu
- E50 Kita-Kantō
- E51 Higashi-Kantō
- E65 Shin-Kūkō
- E1 Meishin
- E1A Shin-Meishin
- E2 San'yō
- E2A Chūgoku
- E2A Kanmon Bridge
- E3 Kyushu
- E3A Minamikyushu
- E9 San'in
- E10/E78 Higashikyushu
- E10 Miyazaki
- E11/E32 Tokushima
- E11 Takamatsu
- E11/E56 Matsuyama
- E24 Keinawa
- E25 Nishi-Meihan
- E26 Kinki
- E26/E42 Hanwa
- E27 Maizuru-Wakasa
- E29 Harima
- E32/E56 Kōchi
- E34 Ōita
- E34 Nagasaki
- E35 Nishi-Kyūshū
- E54 Matsue
- E58 Okinawa
- E71 Kansai-Kūkō
- E73 Okayama
- E73 Yonago
- E74 Hamada
- E74 Hiroshima
- E4A Kamikita
- E5 Hakodate Shindō
- E5A Kuromatsunai Shindō
- E7 Akita
- E9 San'in Kinki
- E25 Meihan
- E29 Tottori
- E38 Dōtō
- E38/E44 Kushiro Sotokan
- E39 Asahikawa-Monbetsu
- E41 Nōetsu
- E41/E86 Noto-Satoyama
- E45 Hachinohe-Kuji
- E45 Sanriku
- E45 Sanriku-kita Jūkan
- E46 Kamaishi
- E54 Onomichi
- E55 Kōchi-Tōbu
- E55 Tokushima-Nanbu
- E58 Naha Airport
- E59 Hakodate-Esashi
- E60 Obihiro-Hiroo
- E61 Tokachi-Okhotsk
- E62 Fukagawa-Rumoi
- E63 Hidaka
- E64 Tsugaru
- E67 Chūbu-Jūkan
- E69 San-en Nanshin
- E70 Izu-Jūkan
- E72 Kitakinki-Toyooka
- E75 Higashihiroshima-Kure
- E77 Kyushu Chūō
- Fukuoka & Kitakyushu
- Hanshin
- Hiroshima
- Nagoya
- Shuto
- Tokyo