Mei-Nikan Expressway

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
Length	43.7 km (27.2 mi)
Existed	1988[1]–present
Component highways	National Route 302
Major junctions
From	in Nagoya Isewangan Expressway Nagoya Expressway Ōdaka Route
To	in Nagoya Higashi-Meihan Expressway Nagoya Expressway Mamba Route
Location
Major cities	Kasugai, Kiyosu, Ama, Oharu
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

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]

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[]

• IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, PA - parking area, SA - service area, TB - toll gate, TN - tunnel

• The expressway is located entirely in Aichi Prefecture

No.	Name	Connections	Dist. from Nagoya-minami JCT	Notes	Location
(5)		Isewangan Expressway Nagoya Expressway Ōdaka Route	0.0		Midori-ku	Nagoya
1		National Route 1	2.4	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance
			3.5	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance
2		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		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		Nagoya Expressway Higashiyama Route	12.7		Meito-ku
5			14.9	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
5-1		Mei-Nikan Expressway (Nagoya Connecting Road)	15.4
6			15.9	in Meitō Tunnel Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
7			17.1	in Meitō Tunnel Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
TN				Dangerous goods forbidden	Moriyama-ku
TN				Dangerous goods forbidden
8			19.3	in Moriyama Tunnel Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
9		Pref. Route 15 (Nagoya Tajimi Route)	20.2	in Moriyama Tunnel Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
10		Pref. Route 30 (Sekida Nagoya Route)	22.5	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only	Kasugai
11		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			26.9	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only	Kita-ku	Nagoya
13		Nagoya Expressway Kusunoki Route Nagoya Expressway Komaki Route	27.8
14			28.9	Exits only	Nishi-ku
15			30.2	Entrances only
16			31.8	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
17		National Route 22 (Meigi Bypass)	32.4	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
					Kiyosu
17-1		Nagoya Expressway Kiyosu Route Nagoya Expressway Ichinomiya Route	33.0
17		National Route 22 (Meigi Bypass)	33.8	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only
18			36.0	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
19			37.6	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only	Ama
20			38.9	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
21			39.9	Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only	Ōharu
22		National Route 1	41.5	Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only
TB				Nagoya-minami-bound only
23		Higashi-Meihan Expressway Nagoya Expressway Manba Route	42.3		Nakagawa-ku	Nagoya
24		Pref. Route 115 (Tsushima Shippō Nagoya Route) Pref. Route 40 (Nagoya Kanie Yatomi Route)
25		National Route 1
26					Minato-ku, Nagoya
27		National Route 23 (Meishi Highway)			Tobishima
(10-1)	/	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)		Tōmei Expressway	0.0	Entrance/exit for local roads only accessible from Tōmei Expressway
5-2		Pref. Route 60 (Nagoya Nagakute Route)	0.5	Nagoya IC-bound exit, Kamiyashiro-bound entrance only
5-1		Mei-Nikan Expressway (Mei-Nikan Expressway Main Route)	1.4

References[]

External links[]

Route map:

• Central Nippon Expressway Company

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