Central Circular Route

Central Circular Route
Central Circular Route
Route information
	Maintained by Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited
Length	46.9 km (29.1 mi)
Existed	1982–present
Restrictions	No vehicles with dangerous goods allowed in the Yamate Tunnel
Major junctions
	Beltway around Tokyo
Counterclockwise end	Bayshore Route at Ōi Junction in Yashio, Shinagawa
	Shibuya Route at Ōhashi Junction in Meguro; Shinjuku Route in Shinjuku; Ikebukuro Route in Itabashi; Kawaguchi Route in Adachi; Misato Route and Mukojima Route in Katsushika; Komatsugawa Route in Edogawa;
Clockwise end	Bayshore Route at Kasai Junction in Edogawa
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
	National highways of Japan; Expressways of Japan;

The Central Circular Route (中央環状線, Chūō Kanjō-sen), signed as Route C2, is one of the routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the central part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The route is a circumferential highway running through the outer wards of Tokyo. The route is the middle of four ring expressways planned for the city; the other three being the C1 Inner Circular Route, the C3 Tokyo Gaikan Expressway, and the C4 Ken-Ō Expressway.