"Watch the highway! look! ] Local elementary school students hold field visits

~Let's see and feel the Joshin-Etsu Expressway scheduled to be completed this fall more closely! ~

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May 19, 2009
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office Shin-Etsu Construction Office
Kanto Regional Head Office management office

NEXCO EAST Shin-Etsu Construction Office (Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, Director: Kensaku Kubota) and Nagano Management Office (Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, Director: Kaori Sakamoto) have four lanes from the Joshin-Etsu Expressway Toyota Iiyama IC to Shinanomachi IC. We would like to inform you that we will hold a site tour as follows, ahead of the completion of construction this fall.

For the purpose of deepening your interest and familiarity with the Expressway, this event will allow local elementary school students to observe the construction status before completion and the vehicles used for maintenance of the Expressway.

1 date and time

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:20-12:20

2 participants

Shinano Municipal Furuma Elementary School children 2nd to 6th grade 112

3 Tour venue

  1. Joshin-Etsu Expressway Yakushidake Tunnel
  2. Shinanomachi interchange

4 Tour contents

  • Explanation of tunnel disaster prevention equipment
  • Explanation of paved road surface
  • Snowmelter experiment
  • Annotation on tunnel pavement
  • Experience riding a maintenance vehicle such as a snowplow

5 Other

If you would like to interview the site visit, please contact us by Friday, May 22. (Meeting place is Attached sheet guide map [PDF: 428KB] As of)

[Reference photo]

Image image of Joshin-Etsu Expressway Yakushidake Tunnel construction site, explanation of equipment in the tunnel
Image image of a ride on a working car, a message posted on the road surface of a paved tunnel
  • The Yakushidake tunnel construction site is the current photo.
  • Other pictures of children are those taken in November 2008.
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