Tōkyō Kōsokudōro
| Tōkyō Kōsokudōro KK Tokyo Expressway |
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | December 13, 1951 |
| Seat | Ginza , Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture |
| management | Kazuhiko Mori |
| Number of employees | 71 (March 31, 2007) |
| sales | 3.5 billion yen (FY 2006/07) |
| Branch | Transport infrastructure, real estate |
| Website | www.tokyo-kousoku.co.jp |
The Tōkyō Kōsokudōro ( Japanese 東京 高速 道路 ) is a two-kilometer, toll-free highway in the center of Tokyo . The operator and owner is the joint stock company of the same name, Tōkyō Kōsokudōro KK ( 東京 高速 道路 株式会社 , lit. "Tokio-Autobahn Aktiengesellschaft", English Tokyo Expressway ) , which was founded in 1951 and is based in the Ginza district of Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture . The route that connects the Yaesu line and the inner ring of the Tokyo city motorway is therefore also known as the “KK line” ( KK 線 , keikei-sen , “AG line”) or kaisha-sen ( 会 社 線 , “society line “), Although since 2005 the Tokyo highway has been organized as a public limited company. The company generates its turnover by leasing the shops (around 100,000 m²) under the motorway. The main shareholders are Dentsū , Taisei Kensetsu and Mitsubishi Jisho .
Construction work on the first section began in 1953, and by 1966 the entire route was opened to traffic in both directions. It leads from Shimbashi in the south, where it is connected to the inner ring, first to the northwest, then parallel to the Yamanote Line to the northeast, until the Yaesu Line branches off at the Nishi-Ginza Junction and the KK Line turns to the east and reconnects to the inner ring. Together with the inner ring, it leads around Ginza once.