Kyushu Highway

Kyushu Highway in Japan
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Basic data
Operator:	NEXCO Nishi-Nihon
Overall length:	346.4 km
Prefecture :	Fukuoka saga Kumamoto Miyazaki Kagoshima
Kyushu Highway Highway at Kumamoto

The Kyūshū highway ( Japanese 九州 自動 車道 , Kyūshū Jidōshadō ) is a traffic-wise important highway in Japan . It has been numbered E3 since the introduction of a numbering system for Japanese motorways in spring 2017 . It crosses the Japanese island of Kyushu from Kitakyushu to Kagoshima . Its course essentially follows that of National Road 3 .

The 346.4 km long highway is operated by the western Japanese highway operator Nishi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK . ( English West Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. , NEXCO ) and is classified as a "National Main Line" ( Kokkandō , short for 国土 開 発 幹線 自動 車道 , kokudo kaihatsu kansen jidōshadō ).

Connection points ( interchange )

Moji (1) - Shinmoji (1-1) - Kokura-Higashi (2) - Kokura-Minami (3) - Yahata (4) - Miyawaka (5) - Koga (6) - Fukuoka (7) - Dazaifu (8) - Chikushino (8-1) - Tosu (9) - Kurume (10) - Hirokawa (10-1) - Yame (11) - Miyama-Yanagawa (11-1) - Nankan (12) - Kikusui (13) - Ueki (14) - Kumamoto (15) - Mashiki-Kumamoto-Kūkō (15-1) - Mifune (16) - Matsuhashi (17) - Yatsushiro (18) - Hitoyoshi (19) - Ebino (20) - Kurino (22) - Yokogawa (23) - Mizobe-Kagoshima-Kūkō (24) - Kajiki (25) - Aira (26) - Satsuma-Yoshida (27) - Kagoshima-Kita (28) - Kagoshima (29)

course

• Fukuoka Prefecture
  • Kitakyūshū - Nōgata - Miyawaka - Fukutsu - Koga - Fukuoka - Ōnojō - Dazaifu - Chikushino
• Saga prefecture
  • Tosu
• Fukuoka Prefecture
  • Ogōri - Kurume - Yame - Chikugo - Miyama - Ōmuta
• Kumamoto Prefecture
  • Yamaga - Kumamoto - Kōshi - Uki - Yatsushiro - Hitoyoshi
• Miyazaki Prefecture
  • Ebino
• Kagoshima Prefecture
  • Kirishima - Kagoshima

Web links

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

• Operating company Nishi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK (Japanese)