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 , Kansai ~

March 15, 2021 Hiroki MIZOGUCHI Director General Kinki Regional Development Bureau

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has recently experienced a spate of natural disasters of extreme severity.

Kanto-Tohoku Heavy Rain in September 2015 2016 Earthquakes Typhoon No. 10 in Aug. 2016 Heavy Rains in 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 7 1 0 2 –

5 1 0 2

(Joso City, Ibaraki Pref.) (Minamiaso Village, Kumamoto Pref.) (Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Pref.) (Asakura City, Pref.)

Heavy snow in Fukui Northern Osaka Heavy Rains in July Eastern Iburi Earthquake Prefecture Earthquake ⑦ ⑤ Heavy snowfall ⑥ Collapsed concrete wall around an Flooding resulting from overflows of the ⑧ Landslide disasters caused by the elementary school Odagawa River earthquake 8 1 0 2

(Awara City, Fukui Pref.) ( City, Osaka Pref.) (Kurashiki City, 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 9 1 0 0 2 2 0 2

(Omachi Town, Saga Pref.) (Kamogawa City, Chiba Pref.) (Nagano City, Nagano Pref.) (Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto Pref.)-1- 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- severity and frequency due to missing link tackled urgently or promptly communication technology) to facilitate 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-

Hidaka Toyooka Minami Road Placed in service in Nov. 2020 (6.1 km) Chugoku-Odan Expressway

Harima Expressway Scheduled to Shin- 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 -3- 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 万a博c用c地ess roads to the venue 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 4 District Illustration: Adapted from Yumeshima District Existing space to be used for rail Osaka City materials 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 山陰ジオパーク Major improvements, including anti-disaster measures, will ● Construction of quays for larg城崎e温 泉cruise ships Port of Ine be made to the Terminal 1 Building of the airport by Expo The Port of has been designated “ 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 Improv姫e路m城ents being made 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

Port of Seto Inland Buddhist buildings Inujima in the Horyuji Sea Cruise Temple area 平城宮跡

Legend Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Hub airport/local Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan Airport management airport

【Rail】 bullet train 金風呂漁港 Sacred sites and pilgrimage 【Port】 Strategic international port routes in the Kii Mountains

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-