(23rd report)
Status of Expressway following the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake (Tohoku Regional Head Regional Head Office)
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- (23rd report) Status of Expressway following the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake (Tohoku Regional Head Regional Head Office)
March 22, 2011
As of 10:00
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. About traffic regulation
Please be informed that at 10:00 am on March 22, traffic restrictions were enforced in the sections shown in the table below except for large vehicles.
For details of regulations, refer to the National Police Agency website ( http://www.npa.go.jp/index.html )Please refer to the. (Smart IC is not available.)
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Tohoku Expressway | Up and down | Utsunomiya IC-Ichinoseki IC | [Access restricted IC] Yabuki, Koriyama Minami, Hongu, Nihonmatsu, Kunimi |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway | Up and down | Tsugawa IC-Iwaki JCT | [Access restricted IC] Bandai Atami, Inawashiro Bandai Kogen, Bandai Riverside, Aizu Sakashita, Nishiaizu |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Yamamoto IC-Watari IC | |
| Sendai-Nanbu Road | Up and down | Sendai Wakabayashi JCT-Sendai Minami IC | Miyagi Prefectural Road Public Corporation Management |
| Sendai-Tobu Road | Up and down | Watari IC-Sendai Wakabayashi JCT | |
| 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 |
| Sendai-Hokubu Road | Up and down | Tomiya JCT-Rifu JCT |
2. About cancellation of suspension of traffic
The sections where suspension of traffic has been lifted are as shown in the table below.
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Yamagata Expressway | Up and down | Miyagi Kawasaki IC-Sasaya IC |
[The traffic conditions after the above implementation are as follows]
The closed sections are as shown in the table below. (Situation within Tohoku Regional Head Office Office (*1) only)
| Road name | direction | section | Remarks |
| Joban Expressway | Up and down | Iwaki Chuo IC-Joban Tomioka IC | |
| Yamagata Expressway | Up and down | Murata JCT-Miyagi Kawasaki IC | |
| Yamagata Expressway | under | Nishikawa IC-Gasan IC | There is a risk of avalanche (*2) |
| Sanriku Expressway | Up and down | Sendai Kohoku IC-Rifu JCT | |
| Sendai-Tobu Road | Up and down | Sendai Wakabayashi JCT-Sendai Kohoku IC |
- Aomori prefecture, Akita prefecture, Iwate prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Yamagata prefecture, Fukushima prefecture (Tohoku Expressway: north of Shirakawa IC, Joban Expressway: north of Iwaki Nakoso IC)
- Yamagata Expressway Nishikawa IC to Gassan IC Out-bound The suspension of the line was not due to the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake. For details, please see the important notice “Yamagata Expressway Partial Closure (at 15:00, March 9, 2011)” on our website.
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