Tokyo Gaikan Expressway
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Prefecture:
Tokyo, Saitama
The Tokyo - Gaikan highway (Japanese东京 外环 自动 车道, Tōkyō Gaikan jidōshadō, dt " Außenringautobahn Tokyo " ) is a highway in Japan. The highway is the third ring of the capital, Tokyo, and currently only a northern bypass, but is to be used in future as a three-quarter ring from the Tomei Expressway in Setagaya Ward and the Higashi- Kanto Expressway in Ichikawa. Currently completed 34 km of the section to the north of Tokyo.
Street Description
The highway begins at the node currently Oizumi, where the Kan'etsu highway begins that goes to Niigata. The highway then passes to the northeast, has 2 × 3 lanes and performs numerous places. In the course of Arakawa river is crossed and it follows a cross with the city motorway Tokyo Route 5 and Route S5. The highway has 2 × 2 lanes and runs through the south of Saitama prefecture. An important node follows in Kawaguchi, where it crosses the motorway route S1 and the Tohoku Expressway. Then the road passes through the suburbs of Tokyo to the intersection Misato, where it crosses the motorway Route 6 and the Joban Expressway. The highway runs from there to Matsudo, where the highway on the National Road 298 ends.
History
Already in 1966 it was decided to build the highway, but it took until the year 1992 to the first section between the node and the exit Misato Wako was opened. In 1993, the intersection of Route 5 opened with the city highway. In 1994, the node from Wako opened for Kan'etsu highway. In 2005 a section opened at Misato.
Opening the data highway
Traffic
The highway is congested with traffic 75000-86000 cars per day. An exception is the stretch is at Misato, where there are only 32,000 vehicles per day.