best skier in hakuba 5 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 安曇野市・豊科地域インターチェンジ名称検討協議会（会長：宮澤宗弘市長）は、長野自動車道（長野道）「豊科インターチェンジ（ＩＣ）」について、「安曇野ＩＣ」への名称変更に向けた準備を進めています。 このたび、平成２４年６月２７日に開催した第４回協議会において、平成２４年１０月７日に「豊科ＩＣ」の名称を「安曇野ＩＣ」に名称変更することを決定しましたので、お知らせします。 Basically, the Toyoshina IC on the Nagano Expressway - one that lots of folk get off at to get to Hakuba - is going to be changing name to Azumino IC from 7th October. Here ends said newsflash! Let's not mistaking. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I wonder how iphone 5 will deal with that... Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 New airport. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The Nagano Beach Line Expressway. That's good to know as I would certainly be saying ...WTF looking for my regular Toyoshina exit. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Toyoshina exit is easy to find on the weekend. It's the one with 5kms of stopped traffic just before it. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What's traffic usually like between there and Hakuba? Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Time to update the GPS! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What's traffic usually like between there and Hakuba? I always go the night before just so I don't get stuck in the Hakuba morning crawl. It can be a really painful 30 kms. Link to post Share on other sites
SwingingSaru 1 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Cheers bestskier. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I must say I find the claims that this will have an xxxx yen economic benefit very questionable. fwiw, the best bit of Azumino City, a name which itself is only about seven or eight years old, is still known/branded as "Hotaka". Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I dunno about winter, but for traffic, part of the pile up on national holidays is folks going to the wasabi place 2-3km north of the interchange. I guess that if you head west from the interchange and go north away from it, say on 147, you can avoid it. Join the faster road once past it because 147 is slower and has lots of lights. Its common to see traffic massively backed up at the wasabi place in summer. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 The winter traffic is usually caused from road crews doing tire and chain checks. If you have ETC you can exit at the rest stop a few kms before the exit. Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Is it a slow ride up on the roads north to Hakuba though generally? Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 The winter traffic is usually caused from road crews doing tire and chain checks. If you have ETC you can exit at the rest stop a few kms before the exit. Oh...Really? I did not know that. Very cool. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Let's ETCing! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Is it a slow ride up on the roads north to Hakuba though generally? No, it's usually pretty good when there's no ski traffic. The roads are usually bare and only start to get snowy around Omachi. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Yeah, that region doesn't get nearly as much snow as ours. I am always surprised at how clear the roads are and how relatively little snow there is on the ground up to and even including Hakuba. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 What's traffic usually like between there and Hakuba? I always go the night before just so I don't get stuck in the Hakuba morning crawl. It can be a really painful 30 kms. Isn't it just? We got stuck just by the turning for the Freshness Burger/Uniqlo complex. Stopped in Freshness Burger for a bit, and when we left, about 45 mins later, the traffic had barely moved. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Wonder what % of people using expressways use ETC now. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Is there a good reason for this change? Link to post Share on other sites
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