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The Bayshore Route (湾岸線, Wangan-sen) signed as Route B, is one of the routes of the tolled Shuto Expressway system in the Greater Tokyo Area.The Bayshore Route is a 62.1-kilometer (38.6 mi) stretch of toll highway that runs from the Kanazawa ward of Yokohama in the west, northeast to the city of Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture in the east.
No. 1 Ueno Route Edobashi JCT – Iriya; No. 1 Haneda Route Hamazakibashi JCT – Haneda ( – Route K1); No. 2 Meguro Route Ichinohashi JCT – Togoshi; No. 3 Shibuya Route Tanimachi JCT – Yoga ( – the Tomei Expressway)
The Yaesu Route (八重洲線, Yaesu-sen), signed as Route Y, is one of the routes of the Shuto Expressway system in the Tokyo area. It connects the Inner Circular Route at Kandabashi Junction in Chiyoda Ward to the Tokyo Expressway at Nishi-ginza Junction in Chūō Ward.
In 2009, Tokyo private industries proposed funding a project to dismantle the elevated expressway and put them underground. [ 1 ] In May 2020, the Shuto Expressway Company received approval for plans to relocate 1.8 kilometers of the expressway underground between Kandabashi and Edobashi Junctions, in the area surrounding Nihonbashi Bridge as ...
Plans for an expressway on the route were first drawn up around 1970, initially in the form of an elevated expressway over the Meguro River between Shibuya and Oimachi. The elevated expressway plan was shelved shortly after, following concerns about environmental issues and local resident protests, but re-emerged in the 1990s in the form of a tunnel plan.
The Yamate Tunnel is a deep tunnel constructed beneath Yamate Street, the first section over 11 km (6.8 mi) in length, was opened to traffic on 22 December 2007. From 2010, the tunnel extended the Central Circular Route south from near Ikebukuro to Ohashi Junction connecting with Route 3 .
Hamazakibashi JCT uphill was once one of the most congested points on the Shuto Expressway. In addition to the traffic concentration from the No. 11 Daiba Route and the Metropolitan Expressway No. 1 Haneda Route, the section between Shibaura JCT and Hamazakibashi JCT 500 meters becomes a lane change section that goes to either the outer loop or the inner loop of the city center loop line, and ...
The estimated cost for the entire project as laid out in 1959 was 105.8 billion yen (US$293,888,888) (equivalent to $2.35 billion in 2023 dollars). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Construction of the expressway route was initiated in 1962 in Shibuya 4 chome near Aoyama Gakuin University. [ 9 ]