Tokyo Expressway
is really Shuto Expressway Inner Circular Route (C1), Tokyo, Tokyo
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
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In the game
Tokyo Expressway is a street course built from the real Shuto Expressway, the elevated toll motorway that loops around central Tokyo. The game's layouts follow the Inner Circular Route past Ginza and Kasumigaseki, closed to traffic and tidied into a race track.
The real place
The Shuto Expressway network was begun in the early 1960s, with its first sections opening before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The Inner Circular Route, or C1, runs on viaducts and through tunnels around the Imperial Palace area, and became famous among car fans through late-night street racing culture.
Visiting
The C1 is a busy public toll road, so drive it only legally and within the speed limit. To see it without driving, look down from bridges and walkways around Ginza, Nihonbashi and Kasumigaseki, where the road weaves between buildings.
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