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Expressway traffic conditions during the year-end and New Year period (preliminary report)
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January 9 2024
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

We would like to express our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in the recent 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and extend our heartfelt sympathies to all those affected.

NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has compiled traffic conditions for the New Year holiday period [Thursday, December 28, 2023 to 2024: 8 days], so we would like to inform you of this.

  • The average daily traffic volume was 103% compared to the same period last year.
  • The number of traffic jams over 10 km was 30 times, which was 79% compared to the same period last year.
  • The number of traffic jams over 30 km was 2, which was 200% compared to the same period last year.
  • The longest traffic jam was 43.2km, which occurred around 5:20pm on Tuesday, January 2nd, starting near the Kawagoe IC on the E17 Kanetsu Kan-Etsu Expressway (In-bound line).

1. 1. Comparison period

  1. Reiwa 5 [December 28, 2020 (Thursday) to January 4 2024 (Thursday): 8 days]
  2. Reiwa 4 [Wednesday, December 28, 2020 - Wednesday, January 4, 2020: 8 days]

2. Traffic volume

(1)Reiwa 5 results (2)Reiwa 4th results Contrast (1) / (2)
Average daily traffic volume * 1 (all vehicles) 24,800 units/day 24,100 units/day 103％
(Small car) (Large car) 21,600 3,200 20,800 3,300 104％ 97％
Maximum daily traffic 28,500 units/day 27,100 units/day 105％

*1: For details, please see Attachment 1 [PDF: 165KB]​

3. 3. Congestion situation

(1)Reiwa 5 results (2)Reiwa 4th results Contrast (1) / (2)
Congestion of 10 km or more 30 times 38 times 79％
Congestion of 30 km or more Twice Once 200％

≪Particularly long traffic jams (3rd worst by direction)≫

*2: IC: interchange, JCT: junction, SA: service area, PA: parking area, TN: tunnel

[Reiwa 5]

direction Road name Congestion location * 2 Traffic jam date and time (peak) Congestion extension Cause of traffic jam
1 Out-bound C3 Gaikan Expressway Near Soka Soka IC January 2nd (Tuesday) around 11:05 18.9km Traffic concentration
2 E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Higashi Matsuyama Higashi Matsuyama Near IC December 30th (Sat) around 6:40 18.2km Traffic concentration
3 E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA Saturday, December 30th around 12:20 16.8km Accident and traffic concentration
1 In-bound direction E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Kawagoe Kawagoe Near IC January 2nd (Tuesday) around 17:20 43.2km Traffic concentration and accident
2 E4 Tohoku Expressway Near Kuki Kuki IC​ January 2nd (Tuesday) around 17:20 31.7km Traffic concentration and accident
3 E6 Joban Expressway Misato Catholic missionary, esp. in Jodo, Pure Land, etc. sects Near JCT January 2nd (Tuesday) around 17:05 22.9km Traffic concentration

[Reiwa 4th year]

direction Road name Congestion location * 2 Traffic jam date and time (peak) Congestion extension Cause of traffic jam
1 Out-bound E14 Keiyo Road Kaizuka Kaizuka near IC January 2 (Monday) around 11:05 21.2km Traffic concentration
2 C3 Gaikan Expressway Outer Ring Misato West gaikanmisatonishi Near IC Monday, January 2, around 11:00 20.3km Traffic concentration and accident
3 E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA December 29th (Thursday) around 6:50 18.6km accident
1 In-bound direction E4 Tohoku Expressway Near Kuki Shiraoka Kukisiraoka Junction Monday, January 2 around 18:10 31.5km Accident and traffic concentration
2 E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Near Tsurugashima Tsurugashima JCT Monday, January 2 around 17:30 28.9km Traffic concentration and accident
3 E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway Tsurugashima Tsurugashima Near IC Tuesday, January 3, around 17:35 21.9km Traffic concentration and accident

Four. Daily traffic conditions

  • The peak traffic volume was on December 30th (Saturday) for Out-bound direction and on January 3rd (Wednesday) for In-bound direction.
  • The peak traffic jams were on December 30th (Saturday) and January 2nd (Tuesday) for Out-bound traffic, and on January 2nd (Tuesday) for In-bound traffic.

[Out-bound]

[Out-bound] Image of traffic volume
[Out-bound] Image of the number of traffic jams (10km or more)

[In-bound]

[In-bound] Image of traffic volume
[In-bound] Image of the number of traffic jams (10km or more)

Reference material

[Topics 1] [E17] Traffic situation starting near Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka SA [PDF: 203KB] [Topics 2] [E14] Traffic situation on Keiyo Road (In-bound line between Funabashi IC and Takeishi IC) [PDF: 342KB] [ Topic 3] [CA] Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line Expressway traffic congestion situation [PDF: 444KB]
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