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NEXCO EAST At Utsunomiya Management Office (Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture), E4 Tohoku Expressway (hereinafter "Tohoku Expressway") In-bound Line Sano Service Area (hereinafter "SA") ”) Will be closed at night for seismic reinforcement work of bridges, road lighting equipment work, and ETC equipment repair work at Sano SA Smart Interchange (hereinafter“ Smart IC ”).
We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your understanding and cooperation.

1. Closed location and date and time

(1) Closed location: Tohoku Expressway In-bound Line (toward Tokyo) Sano SA and Sano SA Smart IC

• Customers using Sano SA on the In-bound line (toward Tokyo) are requested to leave by 20:00.
• You can use Sano SA and Sano SA Smart IC on the Out-bound line (toward Fukushima) as usual.
• The display such as E4 shows the route number (numbering) of Expressway etc.

(2) Date and time

2. Detour

(1) Customers coming from the Tohoku Expressway In-bound line (toward Fukushima)

Please use the Tochigi IC on the Tohoku Expressway and use Prefectural Road 75 as shown by the blue line in the figure below. If you detour between Tochigi IC and Sano SA Smart IC by this route, it will take about 35 minutes (usually about 9 minutes). It will take a lot of time to detour, so please leave plenty of time.

(2) Customers coming from the Kita Kanto Expressway eastbound (toward Takasaki)

Please use the Kita Kanto Expressway Sano Tanuma IC and use Prefectural Road 16, Prefectural Road 270, Prefectural Road 67, etc. as shown by the orange line in the figure below. If you detour between Sano Tanuma IC and Sano SA Smart IC by this route, it will take about 20 minutes (usually about 7 minutes). It will take a lot of time to detour, so please leave plenty of time.

(3) Customers using the Expressway from the Sano SA smart IC

Customers using the Sano SA Smart IC and heading for the Tohoku Expressway In-bound Line (toward Tokyo) should use the Tohoku Expressway Sano Fujioka IC. If you bypass Prefectural Road 352, Prefectural Road 270, and National Route 50 as shown by the red line in the figure below, the time required between Sano SA Smart IC and Sano Fujioka IC is expected to take about 9 minutes (usually about 2 minutes).

3. 3. Surrounding SA / PA

Please use the rest facilities below as you cannot use the restroom while it is closed.
Tohoku Expressway Hanyu PA, Tsuga Nishikata PA, Oya PA
Kita Kanto Expressway Izuruhara PA, Mibu PA

Four. Construction overview

Tohoku Expressway In-bound Line Sano SA lamps will be replaced with expansion and contraction devices due to seismic reinforcement work. In addition, we will also repair and inspect the road lighting inside the lamp, and repair the ETC equipment of smart ICs. Since the place where these works are carried out is one lane and it is not possible to carry out the work under normal lane regulations, it is necessary to close the lamp and carry out the work.
Therefore, in order not to cause any inconvenience to customers, we will close the lamps on weekday nights when there is little traffic, and carry out the construction intensively and efficiently.
This work is necessary to use Expressway safely and comfortably, so we ask for your understanding and cooperation.

Five. How to obtain traffic information

(1) Guidance by distribution / posting

(2) Road traffic information that can be obtained before going out

(3) Road traffic information available while using the Expressway

• Information is also distributed on the official Twitter account.
  " NEXCO EAST (Kanto)" (@e_nexco_kanto) Real-time traffic information
  " NEXCO EAST (Kanto construction regulations)" (@e_nexco_kanto_k) Judgment regarding implementation of construction regulations