Expressways of Japan

The expressways (高速道路, kōsoku-dōro, lit. "high-speed road", also jidōsha-dō (自動車道), lit. "automobile road", "freeway", "expressway", or "motorway") of Japan make up a large network of controlled-access toll expressways.

Expressways of Japan
高速道路
自動車道
Expressway number signs for the Tōhoku Expressway, its parallel expressways, and the circular Ken-Ō Expressway
System information
Maintained by the Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment Agency, through its subsidiaries (East, Central, West Nippon Expressway Company Limited), the Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited, and others
Formed1963
Highway names
ExpresswaysEnn Expressway (E1)
(primary route)
EnnA Expressway (E1A)
(parallel route)
Cn Expressway (C1)
(circular route)
System links
  • National highways of Japan
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