Yamagata Expressway
Yamagata Expressway | |
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山形自動車道 | |
Route information | |
Length | 136.6 km[2] (84.9 mi) |
Existed | 1981[1]–present |
Major junctions | |
From | Murata Junction in Murata, Miyagi Tōhoku Expressway |
To | Sakata-Minato Interchange in Sakata, Yamagata Nihonkai Engan Tōhoku Expressway Yamagata Prefectural Route 59 |
Location | |
Country | Japan |
Major cities | Yamagata, Sagae, Tsuruoka |
Highway system | |
The Yamagata Expressway (山形自動車道, Yamagata Jidōsha-dō) is a national expressway in the Tōhoku region of Japan. It is owned and operated by East Nippon Expressway Company.
Naming
[edit]The expressway is officially referred to as the Tōhoku Ōdan Expressway Sakata Route. From Tsuruoka Junction to Sakata-Minato Interchange the expressway is concurrent with the Nihonkai Engan Tōhoku Expressway, which is planned to extend further north to Akita Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture.[3]
Overview
[edit]The expressway begins in southern Miyagi Prefecture at a junction with the Tōhoku Expressway and heads west, crossing over into Yamagata Prefecture. The route passes to the north of the Yamagata city area and subsequently meets the Tōhoku-Chūō Expressway. From here the expressway crosses mountainous areas of western Yamagata Prefecture before reaching the city of Tsuruoka near the Japan Sea coastline. The remainder of the expressway follows a northerly course paralleling the coastline to the terminus in the city of Sakata.
The route is incomplete between Gassan Interchange and Yudonosan Interchange which cuts the route into two physically separate sections. Travellers must use National Route 112 to travel between the two interchanges. As of March 2008 there are no plans to make the Yamagata Expressway a single contiguous expressway.[4]
The expressway is 4 lanes from Murata Junction to Yamagata Junction and 2 lanes for all other sections. The speed limit is 80 km/h for the 4-laned section and 70 km/h for the 2-laned sections.
List of interchanges and features
[edit]This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table.(November 2021) |
- IC – interchange, SIC – smart interchange, JCT – junction, SA – service area, PA – parking area, BS – bus stop, TN – tunnel, BR – bridge, TB – toll gate
No. | Name | Connections | Dist. from Origin |
Dist. from Terminus |
Bus Stop | Notes | Location | |
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(26) | Murata JCT | Tōhoku Expressway | 0.0 | 83.5 | Murata | Miyagi | ||
1 | Miyagikawasaki IC | National Route 286 Pref. Route 14 (Watari Ōgarawa Kawasaki Route) |
10.4 | 73.1 | Kawasaki | |||
PA | Furuseki PA | 18.2 | 65.3 | |||||
2 | Sasaya IC | National Route 286 | 22.3 | 61.2 | ||||
TN | Sasaya Tunnel | ↓ | ↑ | Murata-bound - 3,411 m Sakata-bound - 3,286m | ||||
Yamagata | Yamagata | |||||||
3 | Sekizawa IC | National Route 286 | 28.1 | 55.4 | Sakata-bound exit, Murata-bound entrance only | |||
4 | Yamagatazaō IC/ PA |
National Route 286 | 35.6 | 47.9 | ||||
TN | Sakazukiyama Tunnel | ↓ | ↑ | Murata-bound - 1,234 m Sakata-bound - 1,244 m | ||||
5 | Yamagata-kita IC | National Route 13 | 41.9 | 41.6 | ||||
Emergency Exit | ↓ | ↑ | Access for Yamagata Chūō Hospital Authorized vehicles only | |||||
6 | Yamagata JCT | Tōhoku-Chūō Expressway | 46.6 | 36.9 | ||||
BR | Mogamigawa Bridge | ↓ | ↑ | Mogami River crossing | Nakayama | |||
7 | Sagae IC | National Route 112 | 53.0 | 30.5 | Sagae | |||
7-1/SA | Sagae SA/ SIC |
National Route 458 | 55.9 | 27.6 | ○ | |||
8 | Nishikawa IC | National Route 112 | 67.0 | 16.5 | ○ | Nishikawa | ||
TB | Nishikawa Toll Gate | ↓ | ↑ | |||||
TN | Kazeakesan Tunnel | ↓ | ↑ | Length - 1,923 m | ||||
PA | Gassanko PA | 81.3 | 2.2 | |||||
9 | Gassan IC | National Route 112 | 83.5 | 0.0 | ||||
Through to National Route 112 (Gassan Road) | ||||||||
10 | Yudonosan IC | National Route 112 | 0.0 | 26.3 | Tsuruoka | Yamagata | ||
TN | Tamugimata Tunnel | ↓ | ↑ | Length - 1,921 m | ||||
TN | Miguriya Tunnel | ↓ | ↑ | Length - 1,463 m | ||||
BS | Shōnai-Asahi Bus Stop | 9.1 | 17.2 | ○ | ||||
11 | Shōnai-Asahi IC | Pref. Route 44 (Amarume Atsumi Route) | 9.9 | 16.4 | ||||
PA | Kushibiki PA | 13.0 | 13.3 | |||||
12/TB | Tsuruoka IC/ TB |
National Route 7 | 23.8 | 2.5 | ||||
17 | Tsuruoka JCT | Nihonkai-Tōhoku Expressway | 26.3 | 0 | Yamagata Expwy ←→ Atsumi: No access | |||
Through to Nihonkai-Tōhoku Expressway |
References
[edit]- ^ "Expressway Opening Dates". Retrieved 2008-04-16.
- ^ "E-NEXCO Expressway Data". Retrieved 2008-04-13.
- ^ Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. "High Standard Trunk Road Map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
- ^ "E-NEXCO Opening Schedule". Retrieved 2008-04-15.
External links
[edit]- (in Japanese) East Nippon Expressway Company
- C3 Tokyo Gaikan
- C4/E66 Ken-Ō
- CA Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line
- E4 Tōhoku
- E4A Aomori
- E4A Hachinohe
- E5 Dō-Ō
- E5A Sasson
- E5A Shiribeshi
- E6 Jōban
- E7 Nihonkai-Tōhoku
- E7/E46 Akita
- E8 Hokuriku
- E13 Tōhoku-Chūō
- E14 Tateyama
- E17 Kan-etsu
- E18 Jōshin-etsu
- E19 Nagano
- E38/E61 Dōtō
- E45 Sanriku
- E46 Kamaishi
- E48 Yamagata
- E49 Ban-etsu
- E50 Kita-Kantō
- E51 Higashi-Kantō
- E65 Shin-Kūkō
- E1 Meishin
- E1A Shin-Meishin
- E2 San'yō
- E2A Chūgoku
- E2A Kanmon Bridge
- E3 Kyushu
- E3A Minamikyushu
- E9 San'in
- E10/E78 Higashikyushu
- E10 Miyazaki
- E11/E32 Tokushima
- E11 Takamatsu
- E11/E56 Matsuyama
- E24 Keinawa
- E25 Nishi-Meihan
- E26 Kinki
- E26/E42 Hanwa
- E27 Maizuru-Wakasa
- E29 Harima
- E32/E56 Kōchi
- E34 Ōita
- E34 Nagasaki
- E35 Nishi-Kyūshū
- E54 Matsue
- E58 Okinawa
- E71 Kansai-Kūkō
- E73 Okayama
- E73 Yonago
- E74 Hamada
- E74 Hiroshima
- E4A Kamikita
- E5 Hakodate Shindō
- E5A Kuromatsunai Shindō
- E7 Akita
- E9 San'in Kinki
- E25 Meihan
- E29 Tottori
- E38 Dōtō
- E38/E44 Kushiro Sotokan
- E39 Asahikawa-Monbetsu
- E41 Nōetsu
- E41/E86 Noto-Satoyama
- E45 Hachinohe-Kuji
- E45 Sanriku
- E45 Sanriku-kita Jūkan
- E46 Kamaishi
- E54 Onomichi
- E55 Kōchi-Tōbu
- E55 Tokushima-Nanbu
- E58 Naha Airport
- E59 Hakodate-Esashi
- E60 Obihiro-Hiroo
- E61 Tokachi-Okhotsk
- E62 Fukagawa-Rumoi
- E63 Hidaka
- E64 Tsugaru
- E67 Chūbu-Jūkan
- E69 San-en Nanshin
- E70 Izu-Jūkan
- E72 Kitakinki-Toyooka
- E75 Higashihiroshima-Kure
- E77 Kyushu Chūō