Tōhoku Highway

Tōhoku Highway in Japan
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Basic data
Operator:	NEXCO Higashi-Nihon
Overall length:	679.5 km
Prefecture :	Saitama Gunma Tochigi Fukushima Miyagi Iwate Akita Aomori
Tōhoku highway at Kuki

The Tōhoku Highway ( Japanese 東北 自動 車道 , Tōhoku Jidōshadō ) is an important north-south highway in Japan and crosses the Japanese main island of Honshū from Kawaguchi to Aomori . Its course essentially follows that of National Road 4 .

The 679.5 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 Tōhoku highway between Iwatsuki (in Saitama ) and Utsunomiya was opened in 1972.

Connection points ( interchange )

Kawaguchi (1) - Urawa (2) - Iwatsuki (3) - Kuki (4) - Kazo (5) - Hanyū (5-1) - Tatebayashi (6) - Sano-Fujioka (7) - Tochigi (8) - Kanuma (9) - Utsunomiya (10) - Yaita (11) - Nishinasuno-Shiobara (12) - Kuroiso-Itamuro (12-1) - Nasu (13) - Shirakawa (14) - Yabuki (15) - Sukagawa (16) - Kōriyama-Minami (17) - Kōriyama (18) - Motomiya (19) - Nihonmatsu (20) - Fukushima-Nishi (21) - Fukushima-Iizaka (22) - Kunimi (23) - Shiroishi (24) - Murata (25) - Sendai-Minami (27) - Sendai-Miyagi (28) - Izumi (29) - Yamato (30) - Furukawa (31) - Tsukidate (32) - Wakayanagi-Kannari (33) - Ichinoseki (34) - Hiraizumi-Maesawa (35) - Mizusawa (36) - Kitakami-Kanegasaki (36-1) - Kitakami-Ezuriko (38) - Hanamaki-Minami (38-1) - Hanamaki (39) - Shiwa (40) - Morioka-Minami (41) - Morioka (42) - Takizawa (43) - Nishine (44) - Matsuo-Hachimantai (45) - Ashiro (47) - Kazuno-Hachimantai (48) - Towada (49) - Kosaka (49-1) - Ikarigaseki (50 ) - Oowani-Hirosaki (51) - Kuroishi (52) - Namioka (53) - Aomori (54)

course

• Saitama Prefecture
  • Kawaguchi - Saitama - Hasuda - Kuki - Kazo - Hanyu
• Gunma Prefecture
  • Tatebayashi
• Tochigi prefecture
  • Sano - Tochigi - Kanuma - Utsunomiya - Sakura - Yaita - Nasushiobara
• Fukushima prefecture
  • Shirakawa - Sukagawa - Kōriyama - Nihonmatsu - Fukushima
• Miyagi Prefecture
  • Shiroishi - Natori - Sendai - Ōsaki - Kurihara
• Iwate Prefecture
  • Ichinoseki - Ōshū - Kitakami - Hanamaki - Morioka - Hachimantai
• Akita Prefecture
  • Kazuno
• Aomori Prefecture
  • Hirakawa - Hirosaki - Kuroishi - Aomori

Web links

Commons : Tōhoku Highway  - Collection of Images

• Operating company Higashi-Nihon Kōsokudōro KK (Japanese)