page_title: Ikebukuro Route
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Ikebukuro Route / Route description
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 首都高速5号池袋線。護国寺附近。手前側が東池袋方面、奥に向かって竹橋方面。画面右下が雑司ヶ谷墓地。English: Route 5 of the Shuto Expressway, near Gokoku-ji, Tokyo.See the map.
context_page_description: The Ikebukuro Route, signed as Route 5, is one of the tolled routes of the Shuto Expressway system serving the Greater Tokyo Area. The route is a 21.5-kilometer long radial highway running north from Chiyoda City to Toda, Saitama. It connects Tokyo's Inner Circular Route in central Tokyo to the Tokyo Gaikan Expressway where it continues north as the Ōmiya Route.
context_section_description: Route 5 begins at Takebashi Junction with the Inner Circular Route in Chiyoda City just north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. From there it travels northwest through Shinjuku, Bunkyō, Toshima, and Itabashi in Tokyo before crossing over the Arakawa River into Toda in Saitama Prefecture where Route 5 ends at Bijogi Junction where it intersects the Tokyo Gaikan Expressway. The expressway continues northward as the Omiya Route to Ōmiya-ku.
  The speed limit on the Mukojima Route is set at 60 km/h.
caption: Ikebukuro Route at Gokokuji Interchange in Bunkyō.
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