Comments on: Tokyo’s Shuto Expressways (Japan Post 2 of 6) http://www.aaroads.com/blog/2006/10/11/tokyos-shuto-expressways-japan-post-2-of-6/ Road news. Pictures. Crazed ranting. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eSPeWe http://www.aaroads.com/blog/2006/10/11/tokyos-shuto-expressways-japan-post-2-of-6/comment-page-1/#comment-96548 eSPeWe Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:09:56 +0000 http://www.aaroads.com/blog/archives/36#comment-96548 When I saw this picture, I remember about a game : Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune... When I saw this picture, I remember about a game : Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune…

]]> By: romuel http://www.aaroads.com/blog/2006/10/11/tokyos-shuto-expressways-japan-post-2-of-6/comment-page-1/#comment-91363 romuel Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:16:29 +0000 http://www.aaroads.com/blog/archives/36#comment-91363 i work in tokyo as a driver before, now that i come back home, i really missed the highway specially in the morning. i work in tokyo as a driver before, now that i come back home, i really missed the highway specially in the morning.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.aaroads.com/blog/2006/10/11/tokyos-shuto-expressways-japan-post-2-of-6/comment-page-1/#comment-40849 Kevin Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:48:55 +0000 http://www.aaroads.com/blog/archives/36#comment-40849 It all seems so familiar to me. I spent a month in Tokyo last summer. I only used the Wangan B for street racing,all others just to get there. I wonder if you have pictures of Mt. Hakone. P.S.-Theese highways are the ones I used to get to the Wangan: Kanjyo C1 Mukojima 6 Fukagawa 9 Here are some other names: Daiba 11 Yokohane K1 Kariba K3 Haneda 1 Daikoku K5 Shibuya 3 Shinjuku 4 Ikeburo 5 It all seems so familiar to me. I spent a month in Tokyo last summer. I only used the Wangan B for street racing,all others just to get there. I wonder if you have pictures of Mt. Hakone.

P.S.-Theese highways are the ones I used to get to the Wangan:
Kanjyo C1
Mukojima 6
Fukagawa 9

Here are some other names:
Daiba 11
Yokohane K1
Kariba K3
Haneda 1
Daikoku K5
Shibuya 3
Shinjuku 4
Ikeburo 5

]]> By: Dan http://www.aaroads.com/blog/2006/10/11/tokyos-shuto-expressways-japan-post-2-of-6/comment-page-1/#comment-2336 Dan Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:11:11 +0000 http://www.aaroads.com/blog/archives/36#comment-2336 I spent three years in the Tokyo area, and undoubtedly, Japan has the most expensive, and one of the most congested expressway networks in the world. Big issue is that only until recently, the Government of Japan had no eminant domain laws to acquire the land necessary to build a good road system, which made expressway construction a very long and costly task. Furthermore, if you want to go from a location north of Tokyo to somewhere south of the city, the only way to do so via expressways is to drive through downtown Tokyo. There is--as of right now--no expressways that bypass Tokyo, although the Keno-do Expressway will serve that purpose once it is completed. About 25% of this 200 km ring road is complete as of 2006. I spent three years in the Tokyo area, and undoubtedly, Japan has the most expensive, and one of the most congested expressway networks in the world.

Big issue is that only until recently, the Government of Japan had no eminant domain laws to acquire the land necessary to build a good road system, which made expressway construction a very long and costly task.

Furthermore, if you want to go from a location north of Tokyo to somewhere south of the city, the only way to do so via expressways is to drive through downtown Tokyo. There is–as of right now–no expressways that bypass Tokyo, although the Keno-do Expressway will serve that purpose once it is completed. About 25% of this 200 km ring road is complete as of 2006.

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