Ken-Ō Expressway | ||||
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![]() ![]() 圏央道 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Length | 300 km (190 mi) | |||
Existed | 1996–present | |||
History | Opened in stages since 1996 | |||
Component highways | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Major junctions | ||||
Loop around Tokyo | ||||
West end | ![]() at Chigasaki Junction | |||
East end | ![]() at Kisarazu Junction | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Japan | |||
Major cities | Chigasaki, Kanagawa Atsugi, Kanagawa Sagamihara, Kanagawa Hachioji, Tokyo Ome, Tokyo Kawagoe, Saitama Tsukuba, Ibaraki Narita, Chiba Ichihara, Chiba Kisarazu, Chiba | |||
Highway system | ||||
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The Ken-O Expressway (圏央道, Ken-Ō Dō), or Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway (首都圏中央連絡自動車道, Shuto-ken Chūō Renraku Jidōsha-dō),[1] is a partially completed ticket system toll expressway in Japan. It is owned and operated by the Central Nippon Expressway Company and East Nippon Expressway Company. In conjunction with the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line and the Bayshore Route of the Shuto Expressway, the expressway will form a full outer ring road of Tokyo. It is signed as National Route 468 as well as C4 under the "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[2]
The section owned by the Central Nippon Expressway Company runs from the east end of the Shin-Shōnan Bypass west along the bypass and north to Akiruno Interchange. The rest of the route is owned by the East Nippon Expressway Company.
Route description
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The expressway begins at the west end of the Fujisawa Bypass (part of Route 1) in Fujisawa, Kanagawa. From here the expressway is concurrent with the Shin-Shōnan Bypass, which it splits from as that road turns toward the south at Chigasaki.
The Ken-O Expressway then heads north, crossing the Tōmei Expressway and Chūō Expressway. Continuing north, then east. There are junctions with the Kan-Etsu Expressway, Tōhoku Expressway, and Jōban Expressway. It then turns southeast, where it meets the Higashi-Kantō Expressway east of Narita Airport, there is gap in the expressway here that is planned to be closed. The expressway resumes at Choshu Renraku Road in Tōgane. It crosses the present east end of the Chiba-Tōgane Road, a two-lane expressway. The Ken-O Expressway continues south, looping west to end at the junction of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line and Tateyama Expressway.
History
[edit]The Ken-Ō Expressway was linked with the Shin-Tōmei Expressway on 28 January 2018.[3]
The smart interchange in Ōamishirasato was opened on 24 March 2019.[4]
Future
[edit]Portions of the existing Yokohama-Yokosuka Expressway, Shin-Shōnan Bypass and Chiba-Tōgane Road and the planned Yokohama Ring Expressway will be incorporated into the expressway.[5] In Chiba Prefecture, land acquisition is under way for an 18 kilometres (11 mi) gap in the expressway to be filled. The new segment is expected to reach completion by 2024.[6]
Economic significance
[edit]Along with Japan National Route 16, the Ken-Ō Expressway will connect the entire length of the Technology Advanced Metropolitan Area (TAMA) — an inland industrial region covering an area of 3000 km2, in 74 municipalities, and home to over 10 million people of whom 4 million work in the TAMA firms. In 1998 goods shipped from TAMA had twice the shipment value of the Silicon Valley.[7]
Junction list
[edit]Parking areas are appended with PA and smart interchanges are appended with SIC. There are currently no service areas.
Prefecture | Location | km | mi | Exit | Name | Destinations | Notes |
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Kanagawa | Fujisawa | - | Fujisawa | ![]() | East end of concurrency with Shin-Shōnan Bypass. Western terminus of the expressway as of January 2018. | ||
Chigasaki | 0 | 0.0 | 24 | Chigasaki-chūō | Kanagawa Prefecture Routes 44/45 | ||
0 | 0.0 | 25 | Chigasaki | ![]() | West end of concurrency with Shin-Shōnan Bypass; | ||
Samukawa | 1.9 | 1.2 | 26 | Samukawa-minami | Kanagawa Prefecture Route 44 | The Ken-Ō Expressway turns from west to north, or south to east | |
5.1 | 3.2 | 27 | Samukawa-kita | Kanagawa Prefecture Route 46 | |||
Ebina | 7.9 | 4.9 | 1 | Ebina-minami | ![]() | ||
9.4 | 5.8 | 4-1 | Ebina | ![]() | |||
11.3 | 7.0 | 31 | Ebina | Kanagawa Prefecture Route 43 | |||
Atsugi | 16.2 | 10.1 | 32 | Ken-Ō-Atsugi | ![]() | ||
17.5 | 10.9 | PA | Atsugi Parking Area | ||||
Sagamihara | 21.4 | 13.3 | 33 | Sagamihara-Aikawa | ![]() | ||
30.3 | 18.8 | 34 | Sagamihara | Kanagawa Prefecture Route 510 | |||
Tokyo | Hachiōji | 36.2 | 22.5 | 35 | Takaosan | ![]() | |
38.2 | 23.7 | 6 | Hachiōji | ![]() | |||
42.6 | 26.5 | 41 | Hachiōji-nishi | Tokyo Metropolitan Route 61 | |||
Akiruno | 47.8 | 29.7 | 42 | Akiruno | ![]() | ||
Hinode | 49.8 | 30.9 | 43 | Hinode | Tokyo Metropolitan Route 184 | ||
Ōme | 58.5 | 36.4 | 44 | Ōme | Tokyo Metropolitan Route 44 | ||
Saitama | Iruma | 63.3 | 39.3 | 45 | Iruma | ![]() | |
Sayama | 67.4 | 41.9 | PA | Sayama Parking Area | |||
69.3 | 43.1 | 46 | Sayama Hidaka | Saitama Prefecture Route 397 | |||
Tsurugashima | 76.1 | 47.3 | 47 | Ken-Ō-Tsurugashima | ![]() | ||
78.3 | 48.7 | 50 | Tsurugashima | ![]() | |||
Sakado | 83.5 | 51.9 | 51 | Sakado | Saitama Prefecture Route 269 | ||
Kawajima | 86 | 53 | 52 | Kawajima | ![]() | ||
Okegawa | 91.7 | 57.0 | 60 | Okegawa-Kitamoto | ![]() | ||
96.4 | 59.9 | 61 | Okegawa-Kano | ![]() | |||
Kuki | 99.2 | 61.6 | PA | Shobu PA | |||
Shiraoka | 102.5 | 63.7 | 62 | Shiraoka-Shobu | ![]() | ||
Kuki | 105.8 | 65.7 | 70 | Kuki-Shiraoka | ![]() | ||
Satte | 114.3 | 71.0 | 71 | Satte | Saitama Prefecture Route 383 | ||
Ibaraki | Goka | 118.5 | 73.6 | 72 | Goka | ![]() | |
Sakai | 125.4 | 77.9 | 73 | Sakai-Koga | ![]() | The Ken-Ō Expressway turns from travelling north to south and south to north | |
Bandō | 134.5 | 83.6 | 74 | Bandō | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 20 | ||
PA | Bandō Parking Area | ||||||
Jōsō | 143.4 | 89.1 | 75 | Jōsō | ![]() | ||
Tsukuba | 150 | 93 | - | Tsukuba SIC | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 45 | Completion is set for 2021.[8] | |
153.9 | 95.6 | 76 | Tsukuba-chūō | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 19 | |||
158.2 | 98.3 | 80 | Tsukuba | ![]() | |||
159.7 | 99.2 | 81 | Tsukuba-Ushiku | ![]() | |||
Ami | 165.8 | 103.0 | 82 | Ushiku-Ami | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 48 | ||
171.7 | 106.7 | 83 | Ami-higashi | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 34 | |||
Inashiki | 175.7 | 109.2 | PA | Edosaki Parking Area | |||
177.7 | 110.4 | 84 | Inashiki | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 49 | |||
183.7 | 114.1 | 85 | Inashiki-higashi | Ibaraki Prefecture Route 103 | |||
Chiba | Kōzaki | 188.3 | 117.0 | 86 | Kōzaki | ![]() | |
Narita | 192.1 | 119.4 | 87 | Shimofusa | Chiba Prefecture Route 63 | ||
198 | 123 | 90 | Taiei | ![]() ![]() | |||
18 km gap in the expressway. | |||||||
Sanmu | 216.1 | 134.3 | 93 | Matsuo-Yokoshiba | ![]() | ||
223.5 | 138.9 | 94 | Sanbu-Narutō | Chiba Prefecture Route 62 | |||
Tōgane | 232.2 | 144.3 | 100 | Tōgane | ![]() | ||
232.2 | 144.3 | 101 | Tōgane | ![]() | |||
Ōamishirasato | 239.7 | 148.9 | 101-1 | Ōamishirasato SIC | |||
Mobara | 243.1 | 151.1 | 102 | Mobara-kita | Chiba Prefecture Route 21/ Chiba Sotobō Toll Road | ||
248.6 | 154.5 | - | Mobara-Nagara SIC | Opened in 2020[9] | |||
Chōnan | 253.8 | 157.7 | 103 | Mobara-Chōnan | ![]() | ||
Ichihara | 262.6 | 163.2 | 104 | Ichihara-Tsurumai | ![]() | ||
264.4 | 164.3 | PA | Takatakiko Parking Are | ||||
Kisarazu | 275.1 | 170.9 | 105 | Kisarazu-higashi | ![]() | ||
Sodegaura | - | Kazusa | Chiba Prefecture Route 33 | ||||
Kisarazu | 282.1 | 175.3 | 110 | Kisarazu | ![]() | ||
Through to ![]() | |||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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External links
[edit]- 首都圏3環状道路
- Illustrations of new and planned segments, June 2015 (Japanese)
References
[edit]- ^ "東京都建設局|Url変更につき転送します。". Archived from the original on 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
- ^ "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp.
- ^ "Information on sections to be opened". Archived from the original on 2016-01-23. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
- ^ "首都圏中央連絡自動車道『大網白里スマートインターチェンジ』 が平成31年3月24日(日)15時に開通します" (PDF) (in Japanese). 12 February 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "圏央道神崎Ic~大栄Jct間が6月7日に開通します | Nexco東日本" (PDF).
- ^ "圏央道、2024年度に全線開通へ 千葉県内の整備加速". 30 November 2017.
- ^ Chandra, Pankaj. "Networks of Small Producers for Technological Innovations: Some Models" (PDF). IIM Ahmedabad Working Paper No. 2006-03-02, March 2006. IIM Ahmedabad. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ "つくばにスマートIC 圏央道つくば中央-常総間". www.ibarakinews.jp.
- ^ "Kyoutei" (PDF). jehdra.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 June 2023.