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
Length	143.9 km (89.4 mi)
Existed	1987–present
Component highways	National Route 158
Major junctions
East end	Nakanoyu Interchange National Route 158 in Matsumoto
West end	Fukui-kita Junction Hokuriku Expressway in Fukui
Location
Country	Japan
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

Prefecture	Location	km	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Nagano	Matsumoto	0	0.0	4	Matsumoto	Nagano Expressway	Under construction
		Gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 158
		0	0.0	—	Nakanoyu	Abo Toge Road National Route 158 – Kamikōchi, Central Matsumoto	At-grade junction, current eastern terminus of the expressway
Gifu	Takayama	5.6	3.5	—	Hirayu	National Route 158 / National Route 471 – Hida, Gero, Central Takayama	At-grade junction
		Gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 158 and National Route 41
		9.5	5.9	—	Takayama	Takayama-Kokufu Bypass National Route 41 – Toyama, Hida, Gero, Central Takayama
		16.0	9.9	—	Takayama-nishi	National Route 158 – Shōkawa, Takayama
		24.7	15.3	13	Hida-Kiyomi	Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway – Gifu, Toyama	Eastern end of concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
	Concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
	Gujō	0	0.0	10	Shirotori	Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway – Gifu, Toyama	Western end of concurrency with Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway, highway location markers reset to zero.
		3.2	2.0	—	Shirotori-nishi	Mino Highway National Route 158 – Fukui, Ōno, Shirotori
Fukui	Ōno	11.3	7.0	—	Aburasaka-Toge	Mino 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
		46.3	28.8	—	Ōno	Ōno Bypass National Route 157 – Fukui, Central Ōno, Gifu, Katsuyama	Temporary eastern end of to this section of the expressway
	Katsuyama	54.1	33.6	—	Katsuyama	Fukui Prefecture Route 260 – Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Central Katsuyama
	Eiheiji	62.0	38.5	—	Kamishihi	National Route 416 – Fukui, Katsuyama, Ōno
		67.3	41.8	—	Eiheiji	National Route 364 – Fukui, Katsuyama
		68.7	42.7	—	Eiheiji-Sandō	Road of Zen National Route 364 – Eihei-ji, Sakai, Katsuyama	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		70.5	43.8	—	Matsuoka	National Route 416 – Central Eiheiji, Fukui, National Route 8	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
	Fukui	72.7	45.2	9	Fukui-kita	Hokuriku Expressway – Maibara, AH1 Meishin Expressway, Kanazawa, Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway	Western terminus of the expressway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Electronic toll collection       Incomplete access       Unopened

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.

External links

• Central Nippon Expressway Company Archived 2008-12-09 at the Wayback Machine