Kan'etsu Highway

Kan'etsu Highway in Japan
Basic data
Operator:	NEXCO Higashi-Nihon
Overall length:	246.3 km
Prefecture :	Tokyo Saitama Gunma Niigata
Kan'etsu Highway at Takasaki

The Kan'etsu Highway ( Japanese 関 越 自動 車道 , Kan'etsu Jidōshadō ) is an important highway in Japan and crosses the Japanese main island of Honshū from Nerima to Nagaoka and meets the Hokuriku Highway here . Its course essentially follows that of National Road 17 .

The 246.3 km long highway is the ostjapanischen motorway operating company East Nippon Expressway Company (KK English. East 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.

history

The first section of the Kan'etsu highway between Nerima and Kawagoe was opened in 1971 as Tokyo-Kawagoe-dōrō .

Connection points ( interchange )

Nerima (1) - Tokorozawa (3) - Kawagoe (4) - Tsurugashima (5) - Higashimatsuyama (6) - Hanazono (7) - Honjō-Kodama (8) - Takasaki (10) - Maebashi (11) - Shibukawa-Ikaho (12) - Akagi (12-1) - Shōwa (12-2) - Numata (13) - Tsukiyono (14) - Minakami (15) - Yuzawa (16) - Shiozawa-Ishiuchi (16-1) - Muikamachi (17 ) - Koide (18) - Horinouchi (18-1) - Echigo-Kawaguchi (19) - Ojiya (20) - Nagaoka (21)

course

• Tokyo prefecture
  • Nerima
• Saitama Prefecture
  • Niiza
• Tokyo prefecture
  • Kiyose
• Saitama Prefecture
  • Tokorozawa - Miyoshi - Fujimino - Kawagoe - Tsurugashima - Sakado - Higashimatsuyama - Namegawa - Ranzan - Ogawa - Yorii - Fukaya - Misato - Honjō - Kamisato
• Gunma Prefecture
  • Fujioka - Tamamura - Takasaki - Maebashi - Yoshioka - Shibukawa - Shōwa - Numata - Minakami
• Niigata prefecture
  • Yuzawa - Minami-Uonuma - Uonuma - Kawaguchi - Ojiya - Nagaoka

Web links

Commons : Kan'etsu Highway  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Operating company Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK (Japanese)