Talk:Road signs in Japan

Some information for anyone to look up, vet out, and get in the article.

Missing is the hexagonal prefectural road sign, two articles exist describing prefectural routs and Wikimedia Commons image pages, that has all sorts of prefectural road sign images.

Urban expressway route signs: These are rounded at the bottom, squared off at the top, and green, the name in Kanji at the top and the route's number is also included.

Blue junction signs at surface intersections. Shows directions one can travel from that point, and if any directions enter or leave it at an odd angle. If a national or prefectural road branches or crosses then all directions with that route will have the sign overlay all arrows for which that route applies. If a national or prefectural route symbol is shwon but not on the arrow, the road going the direction of the arrow it is by goes to it. Locations are noted to where the route goes to both intermediately and eventually. Sometimes they can get rather complex.

White signs often point to other modes of transportation such as train or other stations. These will have blue lettering. If over expressway lanes they help define directional information.

Best way to find some of the signs described is to look up various roads on Youtube, there is an enormous quantity of road video on Youtube, often harder to find because the user does things in Japanese. But you can start with 'Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway' and let the related videos eventually get you out of Tokyo videos, and while one should not point to videos on Youtube on this wiki, it will still help in seeing how all this works, and more. For surface road examples, Youtube user /drivemovie has some good examples showing signage of surface roads, bypasses, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.130.149.224 (talk) 01:11, 22 May 2012 (UTC)