Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway

Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway
舞鶴若狭自動車道
Route information
Length	161.8 km (100.5 mi)
Existed	1987–present
Major junctions
From	Chūgoku Expressway in Miki, Hyōgo
To	Hokuriku Expressway in Tsuruga, Fukui
Location
Major cities	Sanda, Sasayama, Fukuchiyama, Maizuru, Obama
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

The Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway (舞鶴若狭自動車道, Maizuru-Wakasa Jidōsha-dō) is a national expressway in Japan. It is owned and operated by West Nippon Expressway Company. It is signed as E27 under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[1]

Route description[]

Officially the expressway is referred to as the Kinki Expressway Tsuruga Route. This designation applies to the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway as well as the Chūgoku Expressway beyond Yokawa Junction to Suita Junction.

The route of the expressway connects the coastline of the Japan Sea and the greater Osaka urban area by traversing the mountainous interior of the Kinki region.

Using the expressway to travel between the Chūgoku Expressway, Sanyō Expressway and Hokuriku Expressway is shorter and cheaper than using expressways that traverse a route via the greater Osaka urban area.

The expressway is 4 lanes from to and to and the remainder is 2 lanes. Construction to expand the route to 4 lanes is currently underway on the section between Fukuchiyama Interchange and Ayabe Interchange and Ayabe Parking Area and . The speed limit is 80 km/h on 4-laned sections and 70 km/h on 2-laned sections.

History[]

The first section of the expressway was opened to traffic in 1987 and the entire route was completed in 2014.

List of interchanges and features[]

• IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, BS - bus stop, TN - tunnel, BR - bridge

No.	Name	Connections	Dist. from Origin	Bus Stop	Notes	Location
6		Chūgoku Expressway	0.0			Miki	Hyōgo
-			1.5	◆
1		Pref. Route 92 (Sanda-nishi Inter Route)	4.3	◆		Sanda
-	Ōkawase Bus Stop			◆
-	Furumori Bus Stop			◆		Sasayama
2		Pref. Route 94 (Tannan-Sasayamaguchi Inter Route)	22.5	◆
-			25.6	◆
-	Nakayama Bus Stop			◆		Tamba
3		National Route 175 / Kitakinki-Toyooka Expressway	36.5	○
-	Ichijima Bus Stop			◆
-			49.8 49.9	◆	For Yokawa, Toyooka for Kyoto, Tsuruga	Fukuchiyama	Kyoto
4		National Route 9	53.5	△
5		Pref. Route 77 (Ayabe Inter Route)	63.9			Ayabe
6		Kyoto Jūkan Expressway	68.2
-			70.7
7		National Route 27 Pref. Route 27 (Ikeuchi Kyōda Route)	76.3			Maizuru
8		Pref. Route 28 (Ogura Nishi-Maizuru Route)	87.0
-			89.8
9		Pref. Route 16 (Sakamoto Takahama Route)	100.0			Ōi	Fukui
10		National Route 27	111.5			Obama
-			112.8
11		Pref. Route 24 (Obama Kaminaka Route) Pref. Route 267 (Obama Inter Route)	122.8
12		Pref. Route 22 (Kaminaka Tagarasu Route)	132.4			Wakasa
12-1			139.4		SIC opening in 2017
13		National Route 27	141.6
14		National Route 27 (Mihama-higashi Bypass)	148.8			Mihama
15-1		Pref. Route 211 (Yama Kushibayashi Route)	155.1		SIC opening in 2016	Tsuruga
3-1		Hokuriku Expressway	161.8

References[]

External links[]

• (in Japanese) Central Nippon Expressway Company
• (in Japanese) West Nippon Expressway Company

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