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Tochigi's Attractiveness and Location

 

Transportation in Tochigi  `Excellent Accessibility - 1 hour to Tokyo`

Airports

It takes almost 1 hour to Fukushima Airport from the Utsunomiya interchange on the Tohoku Expressway. Tochigi heliport is established within the prefecture, and it is expected to be used not only for passengers or cargo transportation but also for disaster relieves and emergency medical treatments.

Main Roads

The Tohoku Expressway (Kawaguchi `Aomori), National Route 4, and New National Route 4 run through the prefecture in south to north, and National Route 50 connects the southern part of the prefecture to Ibaraki and Gunma prefectures in east to west.
The Kitakanto Expressway, which traversing Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gunma prefectures, had been fully completed in 2011. In addition to networking with the Tohoku, Joban, and Kanetsu expressways, it connects to the international distribution base of Ibaraki and Hitachinaka port, and expected to be an important infrastructure to promote the development of Tochigi Prefecture.

Utsunomiya-Kaminokawa interchange on Kitakanto expressway
Time and Distance Table for Tohoku expressway Interchanges
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Access Map from Tochigi to other prefectures
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Railways

As the main railways from south to north, there are Tohoku Shinkansen and JR Utsunomiya line. The Tohoku Shinkansen directly connects Tokyo station to Oyama in southern Tochigi Prefecture in 43 minutes, and to the prefectural capital Utsunomiya in 48 minutes in the shortest with enabling us to commute to offices in Tokyo. As the main railways in east to west, JR Mito and JR Ryomo lines connect with both Ibaraki and Gunma prefectures.
Also cargo transportation by railways from Utsunomiya cargo terminal to Tokyo cargo terminal takes 3 hours 30 minutes, and it takes almost 11 hours to Osaka cargo terminal.

Tohoku Sinkansen
Sinkansen Time table
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About Kitakanto expressway
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