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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 ]
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.
Shuto Expressway system in 2015 shown in red, other interconnected expressways in green. The Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路, Shuto Kōsoku-dōro, "Metropolitan Expressway", lit.
The Yaesu Route was completed in two phases. The first section of the expressway to be completed was the short section of expressway that links the southern end of the Tokyo Expressway to the Inner Circular Route in 1964. [1] The main part of the expressway between Kandabashi and Nishi-Ginza was completed in 1973. [2]
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 ...
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The Central Circular Route has a total length of 48.8 kilometers (30.3 mi). It is a ring that lies approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) from the center of the city and goes through the wards of Edogawa, Katsushika, Adachi, Kita, Itabashi, Toshima, Shinjuku, Nakano, Shibuya, Meguro, and Shinagawa.
The Fukagawa Route (深川線, Fukagawa-sen), signed as Route 9, is one of the tolled routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the Greater Tokyo Area.The route is a 5.3-kilometer (3.3 mi) long radial highway running south from the Tokyo ward of Chūō to the ward of Kōtō.