Mei-Nikan Expressway

The Mei-Nikan Expressway (名二環, Mei-Nikan), or Nagoya Daini Kanjō Expressway (名古屋第二環状自動車道, Nagoya Daini-Kanjō Jidōsha-dō), is a partially completed tolled expressway in Japan. It is owned and operated by the Central Nippon Expressway Company. Upon completion, the expressway will form a second ring road around Nagoya in conjunction with the Isewangan Expressway. It is signed as C2 under the "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[2]

Mei-Nikan Expressway
名古屋第二環状自動車道 (Nagoya Daini-Kanjō Jidōsha-dō)
Route information
Maintained by Central Nippon Expressway Company
Length43.7 km (27.2 mi)
Existed1988[1]–present
Component
highways		 National Route 302
Major junctions
FromNagoya-minami Junction in Nagoya
Isewangan Expressway
Nagoya Expressway Ōdaka Route
ToNagoya-nishi Junction in Nagoya
Higashi-Meihan Expressway
Nagoya Expressway Mamba Route
Location
Major citiesKasugai, Kiyosu, Ama, Oharu
Highway system
National highways of Japan
Expressways of Japan

Route description

The Mei-Nikan is a ring-shaped high-speed national expressway built around 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the city center of Nagoya. It is a 43.7 kilometres (27.2 mi) long second ring road for the city, the outer ring road is the incompleted 152.4 kilometres (94.7 mi) long Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway, and the inner ring route is the 10.3 kilometres (6.4 mi) long Nagoya Expressway Ring Route.[3] Upon completion, the Mei-Nikan Expressway will have a total length of 55.9 kilometres (34.7 mi). The Mei-Nikan runs concurrent to Japan National Route 302, the only exception to this concurrency is the branch route that connects the ring road to the Tōmei Expressway.[4]

The section between Hikiyama Interchange and Ōmori Interchange consists of tunnels that run underneath waterways; vehicles carrying dangerous goods are forbidden from travelling through these tunnels and must use alternate routes.[5]

History

The first section of what would become the Mei-Nikan Expressway was opened on 23 March 1988 between Kiyosu-higashi Interchange and Nagoya-nishi Interchange as part of the Higashi-Meihan Expressway.[1] The expressway was opened in phases since then as part of the Higashi-Meihan until 2011, when it was redesignated as the Mei-Nikan Expressway.[6]

Future

Construction is underway to extend the expressway 12.2 kilometres (7.6 mi) south to the Isewangan Expressway southwest of Nagoya by 2020. Upon completion, this would complete the loop made around the city by the two expressways.[7]

List of interchanges and features
No. Name Connections Dist. from
Nagoya-minami JCT		 Notes Location
(5) Nagoya-minami JCT Isewangan Expressway
Nagoya Expressway Ōdaka Route		 0.0 Midori-ku Nagoya
1 Arimatsu IC National Route 1 2.4 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance
3.5 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance
2 Narumi IC Tōkaidō
Pref. Route 56 (Nagoya Okazaki Route)		 6.5 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance
7.6 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance
3 Ueta IC National Route 153 (Toyota-nishi Bypass) 11.0 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance Tempaku-ku
12.0 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance
4 Takabari JCT Nagoya Expressway Higashiyama Route 12.7 Meito-ku
5 Kamiyashiro-minami IC 14.9 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
5-1 Kamiyashiro JCT Mei-Nikan Expressway (Nagoya Connecting Road) 15.4
6 Kamiyashiro IC 15.9 in Meitō Tunnel
Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
7 Hikiyama IC 17.1 in Meitō Tunnel
Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
TN Meitō Tunnel Dangerous goods forbidden Moriyama-ku
TN Moriyama Tunnel Dangerous goods forbidden
8 Ōmori IC 19.3 in Moriyama Tunnel
Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
9 Obata IC Pref. Route 15 (Nagoya Tajimi Route) 20.2 in Moriyama Tunnel
Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
10 Matsukawado IC Pref. Route 30 (Sekida Nagoya Route) 22.5 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only Kasugai
11 Kachigawa IC Pref. Route 508 (Utsutsu Kachigawa Route) 23.5 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance
25.2 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance
12 Kusunoki IC 26.9 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only Kita-ku Nagoya
13 Kusunoki JCT Nagoya Expressway Kusunoki Route
Nagoya Expressway Komaki Route		 27.8
14 Yamada-higashi IC 28.9 Exits only Nishi-ku
15 Yamada-nishi IC 30.2 Entrances only
16 Hirata IC 31.8 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
17 Kiyosu-higashi IC National Route 22 (Meigi Bypass) 32.4 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
Kiyosu
17-1 Kiyosu JCT Nagoya Expressway Kiyosu Route
Nagoya Expressway Ichinomiya Route		 33.0
17 Kiyosu-higashi IC National Route 22 (Meigi Bypass) 33.8 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
18 Kiyosu-nishi IC 36.0 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
19 Jimokuji-kita IC 37.6 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only Ama
20 Jimokuji-minami IC 38.9 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
21 Ōharu-kita IC 39.9 Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only Ōharu
22 Ōharu-minami IC National Route 1 41.5 Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
TB Ōharu Toll Plaza Nagoya-minami-bound only
23 Nagoya-nishi JCT Higashi-Meihan Expressway
Nagoya Expressway Manba Route		 42.3 Nakagawa-ku Nagoya
Nagoya-nishi JCT Minami IC (provisional name) Pref. Route 115 (Tsushima Shippō Nagoya Route)
Pref. Route 40 (Nagoya Kanie Yatomi Route)		 opening in 2020
Tomida IC (provisional name) National Route 1
Nan-yo IC (provisional name) Minato-ku, Nagoya
Meishi-nishi IC (provisional name) National Route 23 (Meishi Highway) Tobishima
Tobishima IC/JCT Isewangan Expressway
Pref. Rout 71 (Nagoya-nishiko Route)

Nagoya Connecting Road
  • Located in Meito-ku, Nagoya
No. Name Connections Dist. from
Nagoya IC		 Notes
(21) Nagoya IC Tōmei Expressway 0.0 Entrance/exit for local roads only accessible from Tōmei Expressway
5-2 Hongō IC Pref. Route 60 (Nagoya Nagakute Route) 0.5 Nagoya IC-bound exit, Kamiyashiro-bound entrance only
5-1 Kamiyashiro JCT Mei-Nikan Expressway (Mei-Nikan Expressway Main Route) 1.4

References
  1. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. "History of the Expressway Network in the Greater Nagoya Area" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  3. "Nagoya Urban Institute Project Page". Archived from the original on 23 December 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  4. "名古屋環状2号線 2020年度に名古屋西Jct～飛島Jct（仮称）が開通 | ニュースリリース | プレスルーム | 企業情報 | 高速道路・高速情報はNexco 中日本". NEXCO Central (in Japanese). 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  5. "主要な水底トンネル等の危険物積載車両の通行規制状況" (PDF) (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  6. "名二環の料金のご案内". NEXCO Central (in Japanese). 28 July 2017. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  7. "名古屋環状2号線 2020年度に名古屋西Jct～飛島Jct（仮称）が開通 | ニュースリリース | プレスルーム | 企業情報 | 高速道路・高速情報はNexco 中日本". NEXCO Central (in Japanese). 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2019.

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