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All roads in Japan that are built to expressway standards (including national and urban expressways themselves) are known as Roads for motor vehicles only (自動車専用道路, Jidōsha Senyō Dōro). If a road for motor vehicles only cannot be classified as a national or urban expressway, it may be classified into one of the following ...
Witnesses said the road sunk just before the truck passed, Japan Today reported, citing the police. The spokesman said that another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650 ...
Japan Post also suspended services to the Noto Peninsula until 12 January due to road closures. [214] NTT Docomo , Rakuten Mobile , [ 112 ] Softbank and KDDI reported telecommunications and internet service disruptions in Ishikawa and Niigata prefectures, [ 215 ] while NTT West said its facilities were damaged by the earthquake.
Beginning in 1952, Japan classified these as Class 1 or Class 2. Class 1 highways had one- or two-digit numbers, while Class 2 highways had three-digit numbers. For example, routes 1 and 57 were Class 1 highways while 507 (the one with the highest number) was a Class 2 highway.
Jōban is a kanji acronym consisting of two characters. Each character represents a former province of Japan that is passed through by the route: Hitachi Province (常陸国) representing present-day Ibaraki Prefecture and Iwaki Province (磐城国) representing the eastern portion of present-day Fukushima Prefecture
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan The Tokyo Expressway ( 東京高速道路 , Tōkyō Kōsoku Dōro ) , also known as the KK Route , is a 2.0-kilometer-long (1.2 mi) untolled expressway in central Tokyo owned and maintained by the Tokyo Expressway Company (Tōkyō Kōsoku Dōro K.K. ).
As of April 2012, Japan had a road network of approximately 1,215,000 kilometers (755,000 mi) of roads made up of 1,022,000 kilometers (635,000 mi) of city, town, and village roads, 129,000 kilometers (80,000 mi) of prefectural roads, 55,000 kilometers (34,000 mi) of national highways, and 8,050 kilometers (5,000 mi) of expressways.
16.2 km section under construction, planned connection to Tōmei Expressway: Tokyo: Nerima: 0.0: 0.0: 50: Ōizumi: Tokyo Metropolitan Route 24 (Nerima Tokorozawa Route) Kan-etsu Expressway north: Current western terminus: Saitama: Wakō: 3.4: 2.1: 51: Wakō: Saitama Prefecture Route 88 (Wakō Inter Route) 5.3: 3.3: 52: Wakō-kita: National ...