Tōhoku Expressway

Template: Infobox trunk road / maintenance / JP -A

Prefecture:

• Saitama
• Gunma
• Tochigi
• Fukushima
• Miyagi
• Iwate
• Akita
• Aomori

The Tōhoku Expressway (Japanese东北 自动 车道, Tohoku Jidōshadō ) is a major north - south highway in Japan and crosses the main Japanese island of Honshu from Kawaguchi to Aomori.Ihr course it follows essentially the National Highway 4

The 679.5 km long highway is from the East Japan motorway operator company Higashi Nihon - Kōsokudōro KK (English East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.. , NEXCO ) and is operated as a "national mainline " ( Kokkandō, short for国土 开 発 干线 自动 车道, Kokudo Kaihatsu Opportunities and Combating jidōshadō ) classified.

History

The first section of the Tohoku Expressway 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 - Hanyū

• Tatebayashi

• Sano - Tochigi - Kanuma - Utsunomiya - Sakura - Yaita - Nasushiobara

• Shirakawa - Sukagawa - Kōriyama - Nihonmatsu Fukushima -

• Shiroishi - Natori - Sendai - Ōsaki - Kurihara

• Ichinoseki - Ōshū - Kitakami - Hanamaki - Morioka - Hachimantai

• Kazuno

• Hirakawa - Hirosaki - Kuroishi - Aomori