![]() ![]() Making great day trips are destinations such as the Usui Touge and via the Tokyo Bay Aqualine, the Boso Skyline. Luckily too, being a Tokyo resident, we have some brilliant driving roads only short distances from the vast megalopolis. ![]() A driving tour of Japan can be thoroughly recommended accordingly. Having toured from Kyushu and Shikoku in the South, to Aomori in the North I’ve enjoyed a vast range roads, and some particularly good touge–from the Ise Skyline to the Hachimandairi Aspite Line. Unfortunately, a change in legislation now allows the police to both patrol and set up speed traps on private roads across Japan. Many have been developed as private roads, charging a toll accordingly, and due to a quirk in Japanese law, were originally un-policed for speeding. Smoothly surfaced, well-maintained, and safe, they are laid out well with an obvious consideration to affording both varied views and a good driving experience. With the majority of the country being mountainous they are therefore plentiful. Known locally as ‘skylines’, or sometimes as ‘touge’. One set of roads–legendary both in and outside of Japan–are the many mountain passes.
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