(20th report)
Status of Expressway following the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake (Tohoku Regional Head Regional Head Office)
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- (20th report) Status of Expressway following the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake (Tohoku Regional Head Regional Head Office)
March 20, 2011
As of 14:50
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO East Japan Tohoku Regional Head Office (Sendai Aoba-ku) is, by the Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011 14:00 46 minutes Expressway for damage, Tohoku Regional Head Office Tohoku in the Regional Head Office launched a Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters , We are making every possible effort to restore the affected areas.
Please see this document and the information about the Kanto Regional Head Office our website.
1. Scheduled to be lifted
At 10:00 am on March 21, we will close the sections listed below.
This will allow general passengers to pass through.
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Mito IC-Iwaki Central IC | Emergency traffic route designation cancellation section |
2. Planned cancellation of emergency traffic route designation
It has been announced by the National Police Agency that the emergency traffic route designation for the sections in the table below will be canceled at 10:00 on March 21.
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Mito IC-Iwaki Central IC |
[The traffic conditions after the above implementation are as follows]
The sections below are designated as emergency traffic routes by the Public Safety Commission. (Status within our jurisdiction)
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Tohoku Expressway | Up and down | Utsunomiya IC-Ikariseki IC | [Access restricted IC] Yabuki, Koriyama Minami, Hongu, Nihonmatsu, Kunimi |
| Akita | Up and down | Kitakami JCT-Kitakami West IC | |
| Kamaishi Road | Up and down | Hanamaki JCT-Towa IC | |
| Hachinohe Road | Up and down | Ashiro JCT-Nango IC | |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Yamamoto IC-Watari IC | |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway | Up and down | Tsugawa IC-Iwaki JCT | [Restricted IC] Bandai Atami, Inawashiro Bandai Kogen, Bandai Riverside, Aizu Sakashita, Nishiaizu |
| Sendai-Tobu Road | Up and down | Watari IC-Sendai Wakabayashi JCT | |
| Sendai-Hokubu Road | Up and down | Tomiya JCT-Rifu JCT | |
| Sendai-Nanbu Road | Up and down | Sendai Wakabayashi JCT-Sendai Minami JCT | Miyagi Prefectural Road Public Corporation Management |
| Sanriku Expressway | Up and down | Rifu JCT-Tome Towa IC | Includes sections managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Miyagi Prefectural Road Corporation |
An emergency traffic route is an emergency vehicle that carries the personnel and materials necessary for disaster emergency measures (an emergency designated vehicle equipped with a red light or the "emergency vehicle confirmation mark" issued by the prefectural governor or the prefectural public security association). The vehicle has been designated by the Public Safety Commission to secure a traffic route. Please note that no ordinary vehicles can travel in the target section.
The closed sections are as shown in the table below. (Situation within Tohoku Regional Head Office Office (*1) only)
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Yamagata Expressway | Up and down | Murata JCT-Sasaya IC | |
| Sanriku Expressway | Up and down | Rifu JCT-Sendai Kohoku IC | |
| Sendai-Tobu Road | Up and down | Sendai Kohoku IC-Sendai Wakabayashi JCT | |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Joban Tomioka IC-Iwaki Chuo IC | |
| Yamagata Expressway | under | Nishikawa IC-Gasan IC | There is a risk of avalanche *2 |
- *1 Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima (Tohoku Expressway: north of Shirakawa IC, Joban Expressway: north of Iwaki Nakoso IC)
- *2 The suspension of traffic from the Yamagata Expressway Nishikawa IC to Gassan IC Out-bound line is not due to the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake. For details, please see the important notice on our website “About Yamagata Expressway Partial Closure (at 15:00, March 9, 2011)”.
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Situation route map of Expressway jurisdiction of Tohoku Regional Head Office [PDF: 130KB]
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