Hidaka Expressway
Hidaka Expressway | |
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日高自動車道 | |
Route information | |
Maintained by East Nippon Expressway Company/Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | |
Length | 59.9 km[1] (37.2 mi) |
Existed | 1998–present |
Component highways | National Route 235 |
Major junctions | |
West end | Dō-Ō Expressway in Tomakomai, Hokkaido |
East end | Hokkaido Route 208 in Hidaka, Hokkaido |
Location | |
Country | Japan |
Highway system | |
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The Hidaka Expressway (Japanese: 日高自動車道, Hepburn: Hidaka Jidōsha-dō) is a partially tolled expressway in Iburi Subprefecture and Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. The expressway connects Hidaka to the Dō-Ō Expressway. It is owned and operated by partially by the East Nippon Expressway Company and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). It is signed as an auxiliary route of National Route 235 as well as E63 under their "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering.[2]
Naming
The name Hidaka is derived from the province of the same name established in 1869, which in turn was named after an unknown country "in the Eastern wilds" called Hitakami in the Nihonshoki, a history book written in 720. There is no direct connection between the Hitakami of the Nihonshoki and the modern Hidaka Subprefecture.[3]
Route description
Lane configuration
Section | Total lanes = Westbound lanes + Eastbound Lanes | Speed limit | Toll |
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Tomakomai-higashi IC – Numanohata-nishi IC | 4=2+2 | 100 km/h | Yes |
Numanohata-nishi IC – Numanohata-higashi IC | 2=1+1 ※partially, 4=2+2 | 80 km/h | No |
Numanohata-higashi IC – Atsuma IC | 4=2+2 | 100 km/h | |
Atsuma IC – Hidaka Atsuga IC | 2=1+1 ※partially, 4=2+2 | 70 km/h |
History
The first section of the Hidaka Expressway to open was a 19.7-kilometer (12.2 mi)-long section between the western terminus at the Dō-Ō Expressway in Tomakomai and Atsuma in 1998.[4] In consideration of the effects of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, it was decided by MLIT that future sections of the expressway should follow a path further inland to avoid inundation by a tsunami. This decision has delayed further construction of the expressway.[5]
The expressway was temporarily closed after being damaged by the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake.[6]
Future
Construction of the expressway is to be continued east to the town of Urakawa on the southeastern point of the island of Hokkaido.[7]
Junction list
The entire expressway is in Hokkaido.
Location | km[1] | mi | Exit | Name | Destinations | Notes | |
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Tomakomai | 0 | 0.0 | 22/TB | Tomakomai-higashi | Dō-Ō Expressway – Muroran, Sapporo | Western terminus | |
4.0 | 2.5 | 1 | Numanohata-nishi | National Route 235 – Central Tomakomai, Iwamizawa (Taiheiyō Ferry – to Hachinohe, Sendai, Nagoya) | Eastbound exit, westbound entrance | ||
7.9 | 4.9 | 2 | Numanohata-higashi | National Route 235 – Central Tomakomai, Iwamizawa | Westbound exit, eastbound entrance | ||
11.8 | 7.3 | 3 | Tomato-chuo | National Route 235 – Central Tomakomai, Urakawa | |||
Atsuma | 19.7 | 12.2 | 4 | Atsuma | Hokkaido Route 287 – Central Atsuma, Urakawa | ||
Mukawa | 28.1 | 17.5 | 5 | Mukawa | Hokkaido Route 10 – Central Mukawa, Atsuma | ||
Hidaka | 39.9 | 24.8 | 6 | Hidakatomikawa | National Route 237 – Hidaka, Urakawa | ||
45.7 | 28.4 | 7 | Hidakamonbetsu | Hokkaido Route 351 – Urakawa, Hirotomi | Eastbound exit, westbound entrance | ||
59.9 | 37.2 | 8 | Hidaka Atsuga | Hokkaido Route 208 – Central Atsuga, Shinwa | Eastbound exit, westbound entrance. Eastern terminus as of December 2018 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ a b Google (4 December 2018). "Route of Hidaka Expressway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp.
- ^ "231" . Page:Nihongi by Aston.djvu – via Wikisource.
- ^ "About Hidaka Expressway (General Route 235)". Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.muromin.mnw.jp. Archived from the original on 24 December 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "北海道管内で地震による通行止めを実施しています" [We are carrying out a road closure due to an earthquake within Hokkaido]. East Nippon Expressway Company. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
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