Chūbu-Jūkan Expressway

The Chūbu-Jūkan Expressway (中部縦貫自動車道, Chūbu-Jūkan Jidōsha-dō) is an incomplete national expressway in Nagano Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture. It is owned and operated primarily by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), but also has sections maintained and tolled by the Central Nippon Expressway Company in Nagano and Gifu. The route is signed E67 under MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[1]

Chūbu-Jūkan Expressway
中部縦貫自動車道
Route information
Maintained by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Length143.9 km (89.4 mi)
Existed1987–present
Component
highways		 National Route 158
Major junctions
East endNakanoyu Interchange
National Route 158 in Matsumoto
West endFukui-kita Junction
Hokuriku Expressway
in Fukui
Highway system
National highways of Japan
Expressways of Japan

Naming

The name for the expressway, Chūbu-Jūkan, is simply descriptive of its function in the region it serves, as it crosses through (縦貫, jūkan) the Chūbu region (中部地方, Chūbu-chihō).

History

The first section of the road was built over the Aburasaka Pass between Fukui and Gifu prefectures in 1987. Since then it has been expanded in short segments with the most recent section opening at its western terminus at the Hokuriku Expressway in the city of Fukui in 2017.[2].

Junction list
PrefectureLocationkmmiExitNameDestinationsNotes
NaganoMatsumoto00.04Matsumoto Nagano ExpresswayUnder construction
Gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 158
00.0—NakanoyuAbo Toge Road National Route 158 – Kamikōchi, Central MatsumotoAt-grade junction, current eastern terminus of the expressway
GifuTakayama5.63.5—Hirayu National Route 158 / National Route 471 – Hida, Gero, Central TakayamaAt-grade junction
Gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 158 and National Route 41
9.55.9—TakayamaTakayama-Kokufu Bypass National Route 41 – Toyama, Hida, Gero, Central Takayama
16.09.9—Takayama-nishi National Route 158 – Shōkawa, Takayama
24.715.313Hida-Kiyomi Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway – Gifu, ToyamaEastern end of concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
Concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
Gujō00.010Shirotori Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway – Gifu, ToyamaWestern end of concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway, highway location markers reset to zero.
3.22.0—Shirotori-nishiMino Highway National Route 158 – Fukui, Ōno, Shirotori
FukuiŌno11.37.0—Aburasaka-TogeMino Highway National Route 158 –Temporary western end of to this section of the expressway
35 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 158 and National Route 157
46.328.8—ŌnoŌno Bypass National Route 157 – Fukui, Central Ōno, Gifu, KatsuyamaTemporary eastern end of to this section of the expressway
Katsuyama54.133.6—KatsuyamaFukui Prefecture Route 260 – Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Central Katsuyama
Eiheiji62.038.5—Kamishihi National Route 416 – Fukui, Katsuyama, Ōno
67.341.8—Eiheiji National Route 364 – Fukui, Katsuyama
68.742.7—Eiheiji-SandōRoad of Zen National Route 364 – Eihei-ji, Sakai, KatsuyamaEastbound exit, westbound entrance
70.543.8—Matsuoka National Route 416 – Central Eiheiji, Fukui, National Route 8Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
Fukui72.745.29Fukui-kita Hokuriku Expressway – Maibara, Meishin Expressway, Kanazawa, Tōkai-Hokuriku ExpresswayWestern terminus of the expressway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References
  1. "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp.
  2. ""E67 中部縦貫自動車道 永平寺大野道路 7月8日（土）永平寺IC〜上志比ICが開通します 〜 今回の開通により、永平寺大野道路が全線開通!" (pdf) (in Japanese). 26 May 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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