Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway(5:30AM)

I ran Metropolitan Expressway by car, the early morning on Sunday.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• tokyo
• car
• drive
• highway

[bitmotors]

The expressway which connects a city with the suburbs is a standard as well as Toronto in Japan.But, because it is put together in the small range, a road and a railroad are concentrated in Tokyo.A railroad and a road cross complicatedly in the ground and underground and the sky because of that.A standard road to have a traffic signal machine is in the ground as well, and moreover traffic congestion is very much being done.A way which I like and to run is a country road.

[Tiestolover]

5.30 am?? looks more like 4 in the afternoon ...a lot of cars on the road for 5.30 am..

[bitmotors]

It is very crowded daytime and is because it suits.

There are very many cars in Tokyo.

[tokusil]

Bitmotors san, Very nice video. Tokyo is a very attractive city. Arigatou for uploading. What vehicle are you driving in this video?

[bitmotors]

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[montagnesy]

unlike Toronto or most of any other cities, where there is only one downtown within a city, Tokyo have several downtowns (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Kasumigaseki, Shimbashi, Shinagawa, and more...). Well Tokyo is not a city, but a megalopolis after all...

Expressways are used to connect those downtowns within Tokyo, and usually, there is only 1 entrance/exit per area. And, there are usually 6 laned roads underneath the expressways, which is used for "local traffic".

[rioishikawa]

its probably the image stabilizer on it, it'll move here and there slowly to keep up with the vibrations

[harrisonconstantinou]

@montagnesy its more like bussinuss centers

[Orange180sx]

Is it true every japanese person knows how to build a 10sec car?

[theviewer2010]

hey i hate to ask but i want to know about this guys camera? whats making it move?

[kylejoszef]

Looks like there are lots of nice cars in japan whenever day or night rain or shine

[Nikon05]

lol thats more than half the population of ireland using that subway station every day. thats insane :)

[montagnesy]

Tokyo is massive and, each downtown is often bigger than some cities around the word.

For example, Shinjuku area is one of the busiest business and entertainment district in Tokyo.

Just to give you an idea,

Population of Vancouver, Canada: 2,116,581

Daily users of a single Shinjuku subway station: 3,452,399

Tokyo is huge, and expressways are necessary to carry people across the city (Ex: Going to Work/Cargo/etc.), and people use roads underneath for living (Ex: Shopping/going school/etc).

[johnsmithcanadianeh]

So basically you guys have a freeway/expressway/motorway/au­tobahn right in the middle of the city going between sky scrappers?? Living in downtown toronto all my life where freeways mostly just connect the suburbs to the metropolitan core, this just boggles my mind. So are there normal roads with traffic lights underneath these elevated expressways?