Kyushu Chūō Expressway
The Kyushu Chūō Expressway (九州中央自動車道, Kyūshū-Chūō Jidōsha-dō) is an incomplete two-lane national expressway in that crosses the island of Kyushu, namely in Kumamoto Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture. It is owned and operated primarily by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), but has a short section maintained and tolled by the West Nippon Expressway Company at its western terminus at the Kyushu Expressway. The route is signed E77 under MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[1]
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.png.webp){kind=small} 九州中央自動車道 | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | |
| Length | 95 km (59 mi) |
| Existed | 2006–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Kashima Junction.png.webp){kind=small} Kyushu Expresswayin Kashima, Kumamoto |
| East end | Nobeoka Interchange.png.webp){kind=small} Higashikyushu Expressway National Route 10in Nobeoka, Miyazaki |
| Highway system | |
| National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan | |
Interchanges
- IC - interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, BS - bus stop, TN - tunnel, BR - bridge, TB - toll gate
- Bus stops labeled "○" are currently in use; those marked "◆" are closed.
| No. | Name | Connections | Dist. from Origin |
Bus stop |
Notes | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-2 | Kashima JCT | Kyushu Expressway |
0.0 | Kumamoto | Kashima | ||
| TB | Mashiki TB | 0.9 | Mashiki | ||||
| 1 | Oike-Takayama IC |  National Route 443 (Tsuchiyama Bypass) |
1.8 | Mifune | |||
| 2 | Ueno-Yoshimuta IC | Pref. Route 221 (Tashiro Mifune Route) | |||||
| 3 | Yamato Nakashima-Nishi IC |  National Route 445 |
12.6 | Yamato | |||
| - | Kita-Nakashima IC | National Route 445 Pref. Route 152 (Inanoo Kōsa Route) |
Planned | ||||
| - | Yabe IC |  National Route 218 |
23.0 | Planned | |||
| 18 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 218 | |||||||
| - | Soyō IC | - | Planned | ||||
| - | Gokase-Nishi IC | - | Planned | Miyazaki | Gokase | ||
| - | Gokase-Higashi IC | National Route 218 (Gokase Takachiho Road) |
0.0 | Planned northbound exit, southbound entrance | |||
| - | Takachiho IC | National Route 218 (Gokase Takachiho Road) |
9.2 | Planned | Takachiho | ||
| Planned | |||||||
| - | Makado Intersection | National Route 218 (Takachiho Hinokage Road) Pref. Route 7 (Ogata Takachiho Route) |
Planned Beginning of concurrency with Takachiho Hinokage Road. | ||||
| 0.6 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 218 | |||||||
| Unkai-bashi Intersection | 0.0 | South end of concurrency with Takachiho Hinokage Road. | |||||
| Hinokage-Fukasumi IC | 2.8 | Hinokage | |||||
| - | Hirasoko Intersection | National Route 218 (Takachiho Hinokage Road) |
5.1 | Planned | |||
| 16 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 218 | |||||||
| Kurata Intersection | National Route 218 (Kitakata Nobeoka Road) |
0.0 | Nobeoka | ||||
| Kitagata IC | Pref. Route 242 (Kitagata Interchange Route) | 4.6 | |||||
| Maino IC | National Route 218 |
11.0 | northbound exit, southbound entrance | ||||
| 22 | Nobeoka JCT/IC | Higashikyushu Expressway National Route 10 (Nobeoka Road) Nobeoka Interchange Road |
13.1 | ○ | |||
References
- "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp.
External links
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