Tohoku Chuo Expressway・Soma Fukushima Road

Tohoku Chuo Expressway

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Tohoku Chuo Expressway is a 268 kilometers long high-standard highway connecting Fukushima Prefecture and the Soma, Fukushima, Yonezawa, Yamagata and Shinjou cities to Akita Expressway in Yokote city.
The route connects all major cities of Fukushima, Yamagata and Akita prefectures. On top of that, forming the south-east-north road network, its connection to Joban, Tohoku Juukan, Yamagata and Akita’s Expressways makes it pivotal for interregional travel and ideal as a bypass substitute in case of emergency.

Decreasing travel time leads to furthering the interregional cooperation and interaction network.
Improving Tohoku Chuo Expressway will decrease the travel time significantly leading to further the interregional cooperation and interaction network. It has the potential to bring new possibilities of regional development, easing traffic congestion, allowing better access to medical emergency facilities and improving the overall quality of life.

It also ensures a reliable high-speed network in case of disasters or accidents.
In case of a road blocking accident or disaster in Tohoku Juukan Expressway the Tohoku Chuo Expressway will save a lot of time being a perfect temporal substitute for the whole transportation network.

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Soma Fukushima Road (Ryozen Road/Abukuma East-Abukuma)

Soma Fukushima Road Summary

Soma Fukushima Road is a 45 kilometers long high-standard highway (car only) tying Joban and Tohoku Juukan Expressways. It was a pivotal path to leading project of emergency recovery from Great East Japan Earthquake. The road is looking up for early completion as due to emergency adjustments after the disaster it successfully connected the disaster and inland areas being pivotal to all reconstruction support.