Section of Tokyo’s Ring Road No. 2 Opened to Traffic

November 5, 2018

Tokyo, Nov. 4 (Jiji Press)--A section of Ring Road No. 2, a key route for transportation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games that connects the Japanese capital's central and southeastern waterfront areas, was provisionally opened to traffic on Sunday.

The completion of the 2.8-kilometer-secion between Koto Ward's Toyosu and Chuo Ward's Tsukiji is expected to help ease traffic congestion around the Toyosu wholesale food market that opened last month.

The Tokyo metropolitan government previously planned to complete the road in time for the 2020 Games, but pushed back the goal to fiscal 2022 due to a delay in the relocation of the food market to Toyosu from Tsukiji.

The delay in the market relocation postponed the construction of a tunnel for Ring Road No. 2 under the site of the former Tsukiji market.

The provisional bypass road that opened Sunday runs on the outer edge of the former Tsukiji market site. The metropolitan government planned to open the bypass road within a month of the Oct. 11 market relocation. Jiji Press