Driving Umihotaru from Metropolitan Expressway Takaido IC

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The Umihotaru Parking Area is a parking area of the Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line located in Umihotaru (Kisarazu artificial island) in Nakashima, Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture.
Although it is a parking area, the facilities and scale of the store are on par with or larger than the service area. The observation deck, monuments, the Bell of Happiness, Umimegane -Aqualine Theater-, and local gourmet food are all tourist spots. It is designated as a night view heritage of Japan.
name
The origin of the name is that when the general public was invited, it became "Umihotaru" because it was "light floating on the sea", and it was decided to use the creature with the same name as a character. Today, the artificial island itself is sometimes called "Umihotaru" instead of the name of the parking area.
The name of the town on the artificial island of Kisarazu is 'Umihotaru Nakajima, Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture'. Kisarazu artificial island was made for the purpose of connecting the Tokyo Bay Aqua Tunnel from Kawasaki and the bridge part from Kisarazu. It is the second artificial island along with the Kawasaki Artificial Island (Wind Tower) on the Aqua Line.
U-turn
In this parking area, you can make a U-turn in the direction you came and turn back. The toll is the same as going to the opposite bank of the Aqua Line. In addition, the Aqua Tunnel from this PA to Kawasaki is prohibited from driving vehicles carrying dangerous goods, so if you come from Kisarazu to this PA, you must make a U-turn at this PA.
If coming from the Kawasaki direction, there is no toll booth for the Aqua Line on the Kawasaki side, so pay the toll at the toll booth in this area. ETC wireless communication settlement or settlement by automatic collection machine. Because the maintenance of the ETC wireless communication device was delayed, even ETC users had to stop temporarily and insert the ETC card into the card reader of the automatic toll collection machine. is possible.
If you are coming from Kisarazu, you will have to pass through the Aqualine toll gate again, so you will receive a U-turn certificate at a toll gate in this area. Non-stop wireless traffic is possible).
There are two booths, both of which are "ETC/general". Also, the toll display when passing through ETC is displayed as "0 yen".
If you go to the opposite bank without making a U-turn, you will not pass through these U-turn toll gates.
However, if the parking lot from the Kisarazu direction (2nd floor) is full and the traffic jam extends to the main line, and if there is still enough parking space from the Kawasaki direction, we will guide you to the parking lot from the Kawasaki direction (3rd floor) as a temporary measure. You will have to pass through the above tollgate. In this case, the right side of the booth will change from "ETC/general" operation to "general" operation, and you will receive a U-turn certificate from the staff and a leaflet on how to pass after this. When exiting the parking lot, insert the U-turn certificate into the automatic collection machine.