Chūō Highway

Chūō Highway in Japan
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Basic data
Operator:	NEXCO Naka-Nihon
Overall length:	366.8 km
Prefecture :	Tokyo Kanagawa Yamanashi Nagano Gifu Aichi
Chūō highway near Uenohara

The Chūō highway ( Japanese 中央 自動 車道 , Chūō Jidōshadō ) is an important east-west highway in Japan and crosses the Japanese main island of Honshū from Suginami to Komaki and meets the Tōmei highway here . Its course essentially follows that of national roads 19 and 20 .

The 366.8 km long highway is from the central Japan motorway operating company Naka-Nihon Kōsokudōro (KK Engl. Central Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. , NEXCO ) operated and is known as "National mainline" ( Kokkandō , short for 国土開発幹線自動車道 , kokudo kaihatsu kansen jidōshadō ) classified.

Connection points (interchange)

Takaido (1) - Chōfu (3) - Inagi (3-1) - Kunitachi-Fuchū (4) - Hachiōji (5) - Sagamiko (8) - Uenohara (9) - Ōtsuki (10) - Katsunuma (12) - Ichinomiya -Misaka (13) - Kofu-Minami (14) - Kofu-Shōwa (15) - Nirasaki (16) - Sudama (17) - Nagasaka (17-1) - Kobuchizawa (18) - Suwa-Minami (19) - Suwa (20) - Ihoku (22) - Ina (23) - Komagane (24) - Matsukawa (25) - Iida (26) - Iida-Yamamoto (26-1) - Sonohara (26-2) - Nakatsugawa (27) - Ena (28) - Mizunami (29) - Toki (30) - Tajimi (31) - Komaki-Higashi (32)

course

• Tokyo prefecture
  • Suginami - Setagaya - Mitaka - Chōfu - Fuchū - Kunitachi - Hino - Hachiōji
• Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Sagamihara
• Yamanashi Prefecture
  • Uenohara - Ōtsuki - Kōshū - Fuefuki - Kōfu - Kai - Nirasaki - Hokuto
• Nagano Prefecture
  • Chino - Suwa - Okaya - Ina - Komagane - Iida
• Gifu Prefecture
  • Nakatsugawa - Ena - Mizunami - Toki - Tajimi
• Aichi prefecture
  • Kasugai - Komaki

Others

On December 2, 2012, the ceiling of the Sasago tunnel collapsed at Ōtsuki to a length of around 50 to 60 meters and buried several vehicles under it, and a fire broke out. There were several dead and injured.

Web links

Commons : Chūō Highway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Operating company Naka-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nine dead after a tunnel collapse on the motorway. Retrieved December 7, 2012 .