Inner Circular Route (Shuto Expressway)

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Prefecture:

• Tokyo

The city motorway Tokyo C1 (Japanese首都 高速 都 心 环状 线, shuto Kosoku toshinkanjō -sen, " Innenstadtring line capital - highway [ s ] ", engl. Shuto Expressway Inner Circular Route ) is a nearly 15 km long motorway section of the city highway Tokyo in the center the Japanese capital Tokyo. It cites as a closed ring through the districts Chūō, Minato and Chiyoda, connected externally with the lines 1-6 of the urban motorway Tokyo, the most important routes in the outer districts and the national highways and inside the Yaesu line (Y ) and older private Tokyo highway. On street signs the name of the highway is Latin- Arabic with C1 (C as circular) and Japanese with环( " ring " ) or都 环( "Capital Ring" ) abbreviated and partially awarded together with a circle arrow indicating the direction of travel.

In 1962, the first 4.5 km long section between junctions Kyobashi and Shibaura was opened to traffic. This was also the first line of the city highway, which had been as a public company ( Kodan ) founded in 1959. Until the opening of the Olympic Summer Games in 1964, most sections were opened gradually; only the south-west, nearly four -kilometer section between Kasumigaseki and Shiba Kōen was passable only in July 1967.

In the West, where the ring runs along close to the inner moat of the Imperial Palace today, he runs through the 1900 meter long Chiyoda- tunnel under the Supreme Court and the National Theatre. There are several places smaller tunnel, in the northeast of the motorway ring road is as high above the Nihombashigawa and thus on the Nihombashi, a traditional symbol of Tokyo. There begins on the inner ring road and the transcontinental AH1, which leaves him in the west over the Shibuya - line (3) again.

In Kitanomaru Park in Chiyoda used daily in 2005 more than 120,000 vehicles highway in Hatchobori in Chūō, there were about 93,000.