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15th Meeting of the Kansai
Consular Forum
Future Infrastructure Development
in the Kansai Region
~ With an Eye Toward Promoting National Resilience and
Holding Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai ~
March 15, 2021
Hiroki MIZOGUCHI
Director General
Kinki Regional Development Bureau
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Japan has recently experienced a spate of natural disasters of extreme severity.
Kanto-Tohoku Heavy Rain in September 2015 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes Typhoon No. 10 in Aug. 2016 Heavy Rains in Northern Kyushu in July
2017
① Flooding resulting from Kinugawa riverbank ② Landslide disasters caused by the ③ Flooding resulting from overflows of the ④ Flooding resulting from overflows of the
ruptures earthquakes Omotogawa River Katsuragawa River
2015 – 2017
(Joso City, Ibaraki Pref.) (Minamiaso Village, Kumamoto Pref.) (Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Pref.) (Asakura City, Fukuoka Pref.)
Heavy snow in Fukui Northern Osaka Heavy Rains in July Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake
Prefecture Earthquake
⑤ Heavy snowfall ⑥ Collapsed concrete wall around an ⑦ Flooding resulting from overflows of the ⑧ Landslide disasters caused by the
elementary school Odagawa River earthquake
2018
(Awara City, Fukui Pref.) (Takatsuki City, Osaka Pref.) (Kurashiki City, Okayama Pref.) (Atsuma Town, Yufutsu County, Hokkaido)
Heavy Rains from the Storm Front Boso Peninsula Typhoon East Japan Typhoon Heavy Rains in July
of August
⑨ Flooding resulting from overflows of the ⑩ Fallen utility poles and trees ⑪ Flooding resulting from overflows of the ⑫ Flooding resulting from overflows of the
Rokkakugawa River Chikumagawa River Kumagawa River
2019
2020
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(Omachi Town, Saga Pref.) (Kamogawa City, Chiba Pref.) (Nagano City, Nagano Pref.) (Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto Pref.)
Overview of the “Five-Year Plan to Accelerate Efforts for Disaster Prevention and
Mitigation and the Promotion of National Resilience”
(Approved by the Cabinet on Dec. 11, 2020)
1. Basic Concept
○ This Plan is designed to accelerate and deepen efforts to prevent and mitigate natural disasters and promote national resilience in order to protect the lives and
assets of the people as well as important functions of society from weather disasters that have occurred frequently across the nation and brought more severe
damage as a result of climate change; large-scale earthquakes that are anticipated to occur in the near future; and aging infrastructure, which requires huge
outlays for maintenance and repair and could paralyze the social and economic system. Specifically, efforts are focused on:
• Measures against increasingly devastating natural disasters caused by wind or flooding
and large-scale earthquakes that are anticipated to occur in the near future; Budget for the Plan (five years)
Approximately 15 trillion yen for the government as a
• Measures against aging infrastructure, in which the emphasis is shifted toward preventive whole (123 measures)
maintenance; and Approximately 9.4 trillion yen for the Ministry of Land,
• Measures to promote digitalization to more efficiently implement projects for building Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (53 measures)
national resilience.
Additional budgets necessary for these measures over the five-year period (2021 to 2025) will be set, and priority measures will be taken in a concentrated
manner.
2. Priority Measures
Flood control measures for river basins Digitalization of measures to
Resolution of missing links Measures against aging infrastructure
(River improvement/development) promote national resilience
Promoting anti-disaster measures Securing an emergency transport road Implementing maintenance work and
to cope with natural disasters that that avoids potential tsunami-inundated other intensive measures against
have recently escalated in areas by resolving the issue of a aging infrastructure that should be Promoting the use of ICT (information-
missing link tackled urgently or promptly communication technology) to facilitate
severity and frequency due to
the implementation of national resilience
climate change
projects -2-
Further progress of road network development
As of March 2008 November 1st 2021 Scheduled to
open in 2022
Extended arterial roads: Extended arterial roads: (19.5 km)
approximately 1,228 km approximately 1,561 km
San’in-Kinki Expressway
Hidaka Toyooka
Minami Road
Placed in
service in Nov.
2020 (6.1 km)
Chugoku-Odan
Expressway
Harima
Expressway
Scheduled to
Shin-Meishin Expressway
open in 2021
Scheduled to open in 2023 (35.8 km)
(11.4 km)
Osaka Wangan
Route (western
extension)
Yodogawa Sagan
Route (extension)
Legend
Already open for traffic
Legend To be opened in future
Already open for traffic
Construction planned
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Preparation with an Eye toward Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai
○ Before Expo 2025, Yumemai Bridge and Konohana Bridge will be widened, and projects for the extension of rail lines and the Yodogawa
Sagan Route will be implemented.
○ During the Expo period, measures will be taken to spread out and decentralize the “peak” rush of visitors travelling to the venue.
○ AI, MaaS and other new technologies will be introduced to Expo 2025, a “test site for the future.”
Creating additional lanes for Temporarily providing a shuttle
bus service between Shin-Osaka
Konohana Bridge
Station and the venue
Illustration: Adapted from Osaka City materials
Photo: Google Maps
Creating additional lanes for
Yumemai Bridge
Maishima Hokko
District JCT
Bentencho Station
Rail line extension enables transportation
New harbor of a larger number of visitors.
Photo: Google Maps (planned) ■Vertical cross-
Sakurajima section view
Station Sakishima side Yumeshima side
Reducing potential traffic
congestion by adding elevated IR site
access roads to the venue
万博用地
Finished rail tunnel section (Not yet Incomplete section
IR site made available for public use) of rail tunnel
Expo ■Typical cross-section view of
rail tunnel
venue
Sakishima
District
4
Illustration: Adapted from Yumeshima District
Osaka City materials
Existing space to be used for rail
line extension -4-
Future of the Kansai Region
○Building Infrastructure, Hubs, and Networks for facilitating in-bound traffic to all of the Kansai region and out to western Japan will be built by improving
infrastructure—such as railroads (Shin-Osaka Station, etc.), airports (Kansai International Airport, etc.), ports (ports at which cruise ships call, etc.), and
roads (Shin-Meishin Expressway, Yodogawa Sagan Route, etc.)—in an integrated manner.
○New initiatives with “wellness” as a keyword will be reinforced by taking full advantage of the Kansai region’s unique history, culture and tourism resources
(six World Heritage Sites).
From Asia and the rest of Improving the functionality and user-
the world friendliness of Kansai International Airport
Major improvements, including anti-disaster measures, will
山陰ジオパーク
● Construction of quays for large cruise ships
城崎温泉
Port of Ine be made to the Terminal 1 Building of the airport by Expo
The Port of Maizuru has been designated “Sea of Japan 2025, thereby establishing infrastructure able to accept
hub port” for international cruises. around 40 million visitors per year.
Cultural properties in the
ancient capital of Kyoto
Improvements being made
姫路城
Kansai International Airport
Port of Maizuru to quay superstructure
Himeji Castle ●Constructing a network of railroads connecting Kansai International Airport
Cultural and Shin-Osaka Station
properties in the
ancient capital of ● Enhancing accessibility by developing and improving a network of trunk roads
Nara
Port of Seto Inland Buddhist buildings
Inujima
Sea Cruise in the Horyuji
Temple area 平城宮跡
Legend Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group:
Hub airport/local Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan
Airport management airport
【Rail】 Shinkansen bullet train
金風呂漁港 Sacred sites and pilgrimage
【Port】 routes in the Kii Mountains
Strategic international port
Central international port
Major port
Port at which cruise ships
called in 2019
【Sightseeing】 World Heritage
Site To Asia and the rest
Tourist/scenic site Hot
spring of the world -5-
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