Expressways of Japan

Expressways of Japan
高速道路
自動車道
Expressway number signs for the Tōhoku Expressway, its parallel expressways, and the circular Ken-Ō Expressway
System information
Maintained by the Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment Agency, through its subsidiaries (East, Central, West Nippon Expressway Company Limited), the Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited, and others
Formed1963
Highway names
ExpresswaysEnn Expressway (E1)
(primary route)
EnnA Expressway (E1A)
(parallel route)
Cn Expressway (C1)
(circular route)[2]
System links
Junction of E1 and E1A, major expressways linking Tokyo and Nagoya in Central Japan

The expressways (高速道路, kōsoku-dōro, lit. "high-speed road", also jidōsha-dō (自動車道), lit. "automobile road", "freeway", "expressway", or "motorway") of Japan make up a large network of controlled-access toll expressways.

  1. ^ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. "Toll and Toll-free Roads in Current Arterial High-standard Highway Network" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-11-09.
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