San'in Kinki Expressway

San-in Kinki Expressway
San-in Kinki Expressway
山陰近畿自動車道
Route information
	Maintained by West Nippon Expressway Company
Length	120 km (75 mi)
Existed	2005–present
Component; highways	National Route 9 / National Route 178 / National Route 312
Major junctions
West end	Tottori Interchange; San'in Expressway in Tottori, Tottori
East end	Miyazu Amano Hanashi Interchange; Kyoto Jūkan Expressway in Miyazu, Kyoto
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
	National highways of Japan; Expressways of Japan;

San'in Kinki Expressway (山陰近畿自動車道, San'in Kinki Jidōsha-dō) is an incomplete expressway that, upon completion, will connect the San'in Expressway from Tottori interchange to the Kyoto Jūkan Expressway. When finished it will be about 120 kilometres (75 mi) long. It is owned and operated by partly by the Kyoto Prefectural Road Corporation and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is numbered "E9" along with the Kyoto Jūkan Expressway and the San-in Expressway.^[1]

Route description

As of December 2019, the San'in Kinki Expressway is an incomplete expressway linking the Kyoto Jūkan Expressway in Miyazu, Kyoto to the San'in Expressway in Tottori. It is made up of four east to west, separate sections that will eventually connect to one another upon the completion of the route.^[2]

History

The San'in Kinki Expressway was designated as a planned route on 16 December 1994.^[3] On 27 March 2005, the section between Kasumi and Satsu interchanges was the first section of the expressway to open. The next section would open on 24 November 2008, between Higashihama and Igumi interchanges. Next, the expressway was extended west from Kasumi Interchange to Amarube Interchange on 12 December 2010. On 12 March 2011, a separate eastern section of the expressway opened between Yoza-Amanohashidate Interchange and Miyazu-Amanohashidate Interchange. On 22 March 2014, the section between Fukube Interchange and Iwami Interchange opened. From Iwami Interchange, the expressway was extended east to Uratomi on 26 March 2016. On the eastern section, the expressway was extended from Yoza-Amanohashidate Interchange to Kyōtango-Ōmiya Interchange on 30 October 2016. On 26 November 2017 the expressway was extended west from Amarube Interchange to Shin'onsen-Hamasaka Interchange.^[4]

List of interchanges and features

IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, TN - tunnel, TB - toll gate

No.	Name	Connections	Dist. from Origin	Notes	Location
(9)	Tottori JCT	San'in Expressway (planned) Tottori Expressway (planned)		planning	Tottori	Tottori
12.0 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 9
	Fukube IC	National Route 9 Tottori Prefectural Route 43 Tottori Prefectural Route 265	0.0
	Ōtani IC	Tottori Prefectural Route 27		eastbound exit, westbound entrance	Iwami
	Iwami IC	National Route 9 Tottori Prefectural Route 325	6.6
	Uratomi IC	Tottori Prefectural Route 155	8.5
3.8 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 178
	Higashihama IC	National Route 178 Tottori Prefectural Route 256	12.3
	Iigumi IC	National Route 178 Hyōgo Prefectural Route 128	15.8		Shin'onsen	Hyōgo
7.6 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 178
5	Shin'onsen-Hamasaka IC	National Route 178 Hyōgo Prefectural Route 47	0.0
4	Kuto IC	Hyōgo Prefectural Route 257		westbound exit, eastbound entrance
3	Amarube IC	National Route 178 Hyōgo Prefectural Route 4	9.8		Kami
2	Kasumi IC	Hyōgo Prefectural Route 4 Hyōgo Prefectural Route 11	15.1
1	Satsu IC	National Route 178 Hyōgo Prefectural Route 256	21.3
7.6 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 178
	(Takeno-chō, Toyooka)			planning	Toyooka
	Toyooka-Kita IC/JCT	Kitakinki-Toyooka Expressway (planned)		planning
	(Shimotsurui, Toyooka)			planning
Planned route Through to National Route 178
	Amino IC			planning	Kyōtango	Kyoto
	Mineyama-Yasaka IC			planning
	Ōyama-Mineyama IC		0.0	planning
5.0 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by National Route 312
	Kyōtango-Ōmiya IC	Kyoto Prefectural Route 651 Kyoto Prefectural Route 655	5.0
	Kyōtango-Ōmiya IC	Kyoto Prefectural Route 651 Kyoto Prefectural Route 655	5.0		Yosano
	Yoza-Amanohashidate IC	National Route 176 National Route 312	9.3		Yosano
	Yoza-Amanohashidate IC	National Route 176 National Route 312	9.3		Miyazu
1	Miyazu-Amanohashidate IC	Kyoto Prefectural Route 9	15.7		Miyazu
Through to Kyoto Jūkan Expressway