We'd like to use analytics cookies to understand which symbols people look up, so we know what to research next. They are not used for advertising and we set none of them unless you say yes. What we store.
A blue square carrying a car in white.
Also known as: Expressway sign Japan, Motor road Japan
Marks a Japanese road reserved for motor vehicles, the sign that defines an expressway or motor road.
Is what legally makes a Japanese road an expressway or motor road for the purposes of the traffic rules, so it carries far more consequence than its plain appearance suggests: the speed regime, the exclusion of pedestrians and cycles, and the stopping rules all follow from this sign rather than from the road's construction.
Contexts: Road signage
An upright square in a solid tone carrying the front three-quarter silhouette of a car in a contrasting tone.