Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro
| Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. |
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | October 1, 2005 |
| Seat | Kasumigaseki , Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture |
| management | Tatsuo Satō, President & Executive Director |
| Number of employees | 2,225 (March 31, 2010) |
| sales | 752 billion yen (Group, FY 2009/10) |
| Branch | Infrastructure |
| Website | www.e-nexco.co.jp |
The Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK ( Japanese 東 日本 高速 道路 株式会社 , Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro kabushiki kaisha , lit. "East Japan Autobahn AG", NEXCO 東 日本 for short , Nekusuko Higashiway-Nihon ; English East Nippon Express Co. Ltd . , NEXCO East for short ) is the East Japanese motorway and expressway operator company , one of three regional "special companies" ( tokurei-gaisha ), which were set up in 2005 during the formal privatization and division of the public Nihon Dōro kōdan (English Japan Highway Public Corp. ) were. This means that NEXCO Higashi-Nihon is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the highways as well as the planning and construction of new routes, while the owner of the routes remains Nihon kōsokudōro hoyū, saimu hensai kikō ( 日本 高速 道路 保有 ・ 債務 „済 機構 ,“ Organization for property and debt repayment Japan's "highways, eng. Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment Agency , shortly JEHDRA), an Independent administrative Institution of the Ministry of land, infrastructure and transport . Through its subsidiary Nex-area Higashi-Nihon , it also operates the motorway service stations and parking lots. The Ministry of Transport holds 100% of the shares to this day.
The headquarters of NEXCO Higashi-Nihon is located in the Tokyo district of Kasumigaseki , four regional branches ( shisha ) share responsibility for various routes regionally: the Hokkaidō -shisha in Sapporo , the Tōhoku -shisha in Sendai , the Kantō -shisha in Taitō and the Niigata shisha in Niigata .
Route network
The NEXCO Higashi-Nihon route network covers around 3,600 km, with further routes of several hundred kilometers under construction. The longest highway is the Tōhoku Highway , which runs from the Kantō region to Aomori on the Tsugaru Road. Other main routes are the Kan'etsu highway between Tokyo and the west coast, the Hokuriku highway running along the coast , the Jōban highway on the Pacific coast and the Ban'etsu highway , which creates another east-west connection. In addition, there are several connecting routes and especially shorter routes in the north and east of the greater Tokyo area, including the (incomplete) "outer ring road", Tōkyō-Gaikan-Autobahn , and several toll national expressways such as the Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line through the Bay of Tokyo.
Prices
The road usage charges are distance-dependent on most routes. So for cars z. B. the use of the entire Tōhoku highway from Kawaguchi to Aomori 13,450 yen , a trip from Chiba -Nord to Narita airport 950 yen. Users of the electronic payment system ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) pay reduced prices at certain times. Users of a NEXCO Higashi Nihon credit card can also collect “loyalty points” for every trip that can be used for rewards or for using the motorway again.
In the course of the since 2009 incumbent Democratic abolition adopted central government of the motorway toll "experimental" more, especially rural routes were free of charge - a total of about 20% of Japan's highways, but account for only about 5% of the toll revenue - while the charges on other Routes increased. She also decided to fill the leadership position of the three NEXCOs to avoid Amakudari from the private sector and to delete the position of chairman ( kaichō ).
In June 2011, in the wake of the Tōhoku earthquake, many routes were charged again and some discounts for ETC users were abolished, but some highways in eastern Japan, especially in Tōhoku, were completely toll-free.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, parts of English)
- DoraPura (DrivePlaza) (Japanese, current traffic information from NEXCO Higashi-Nihon)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEXCO Higashi-Nihon: Free routes 2010 Tōhoku (PDF; 765 kB), Kantō (PDF; 568 kB), Niigata / Hokuriku (PDF; 1.0 MB), Hokkaidō (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Private-sector picks tapped to head highway operators. In: The Japan Times . June 15, 2010, accessed December 20, 2010 .
- ↑ Tohoku toll roads free for victims. In: The Japan Times . June 20, 2011, accessed June 19, 2011 .