Bayshore Route

Shuto Expressway Bayshore Route
首都高速道路湾岸線
Map
The Bayshore Route highlighted in red (not mobile view)
Route information
Maintained by Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited
Length62.1 km (38.6 mi)
Existed1976–present
Major junctions
West end Yokohama–Yokosuka Road in Yokohama, Kanagawa
East end Tokyo Gaikan Expressway
Higashi-Kantō Expressway in Ichikawa, Chiba
Location
CountryJapan
Highway system

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. Opened in phases beginning in 1976 and ending in 2001, it is an important route that runs between the artificial islands lining the western shore of Tokyo Bay by way of bridges and sub-sea tunnels that bypass central Tokyo.