The , or , is a partially completed tolled expressway in Japan. It is owned and operated by the Central Nippon Expressway Company. Upon completion, the expressway will form a second ring road around Nagoya in conjunction with the Isewangan Expressway. It is signed as C2 under the "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."
Route description The Mei-Nikan is a ring-shaped high-speed national expressway built around from the city center of Nagoya. It is a long second ring road for the city, the outer ring road is the incompleted long Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway, and the inner ring route is the long Nagoya Expressway Ring Route. Upon completion, the Mei-Nikan Expressway will have a total length of . The Mei-Nikan runs concurrent to Japan National Route 302, the only exception to this concurrency is the branch route that connects the ring road to the Tōmei Expressway.
The section between Hikiyama Interchange and Ōmori Interchange consists of tunnels that run underneath waterways; vehicles carrying dangerous goods are forbidden from travelling through these tunnels and must use alternate routes.
History The first section of what would become the Mei-Nikan Expressway was opened on 23 March 1988 between Kiyosu-higashi Interchange and Nagoya-nishi Interchange as part of the Higashi-Meihan Expressway. The expressway was opened in phases since then as part of the Higashi-Meihan until 2011, when it was redesignated as the Mei-Nikan Expressway.
Future Construction is underway to extend the expressway south to the Isewangan Expressway southwest of Nagoya by 2020. Upon completion, this would complete the loop made around the city by the two expressways.
List of interchanges and features
IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, PA - parking area, SA - service area, TB - toll gate, TN - tunnel The expressway is located entirely in Aichi Prefecture No.NameConnectionsDist. fromNagoya-minami JCTNotesLocation(5)Nagoya-minami JCT Nagoya Expressway Ōdaka Route0.0Midori-kuNagoya1Arimatsu IC2.4Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance3.5Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance2Narumi ICTōkaidōPref. Route 56 (Nagoya Okazaki Route)6.5Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance7.6Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance3Ueta IC11.0Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entranceTempaku-ku12.0Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance4Takabari JCT Nagoya Expressway Higashiyama Route12.7Meito-ku5Kamiyashiro-minami IC14.9Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only5-1Kamiyashiro JCT15.46Kamiyashiro IC15.9in Meitō TunnelNagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only7Hikiyama IC17.1in Meitō TunnelNagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance onlyTNMeitō TunnelDangerous goods forbiddenMoriyama-kuTNMoriyama TunnelDangerous goods forbidden8Ōmori IC19.3in Moriyama TunnelNagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only9Obata ICPref. Route 15 (Nagoya Tajimi Route)20.2in Moriyama TunnelNagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only10Matsukawado ICPref. Route 30 (Sekida Nagoya Route)22.5Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance onlyKasugai11Kachigawa ICPref. Route 508 (Utsutsu Kachigawa Route)23.5Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance25.2Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance12Kusunoki IC26.9Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance onlyKita-kuNagoya13Kusunoki JCT Nagoya Expressway Kusunoki Route Nagoya Expressway Komaki Route27.814Yamada-higashi IC28.9Exits onlyNishi-ku15Yamada-nishi IC30.2Entrances only16Hirata IC31.8Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only17Kiyosu-higashi IC32.4Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance onlyKiyosu17-1Kiyosu JCT Nagoya Expressway Kiyosu Route Nagoya Expressway Ichinomiya Route33.017Kiyosu-higashi IC33.8Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance only18Kiyosu-nishi IC36.0Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only19Jimokuji-kita IC37.6Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance onlyAma20Jimokuji-minami IC38.9Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance only21Ōharu-kita IC39.9Nagoya-minami-bound exit, Nagoya-nishi-bound entrance onlyŌharu22Ōharu-minami IC41.5Nagoya-nishi-bound exit, Nagoya-minami-bound entrance onlyTBŌharu Toll PlazaNagoya-minami-bound only23Nagoya-nishi JCT Nagoya Expressway Manba Route42.3Nakagawa-kuNagoya24Sennonji-minami ICPref. Route 115 (Tsushima Shippō Nagoya Route)Pref. Route 40 (Nagoya Kanie Yatomi Route)25Tomida IC26Nan-yo ICMinato-ku, Nagoya27Tobishima-kita ICTobishima(10-1)Tobishima IC/JCTPref. Rout 71 (Nagoya-nishiko Route)
Nagoya Connecting Road Located in Meito-ku, Nagoya No.NameConnectionsDist. fromNagoya ICNotes(21)Nagoya IC0.0Entrance/exit for local roads only accessible from Tōmei Expressway5-2Hongō ICPref. Route 60 (Nagoya Nagakute Route)0.5Nagoya IC-bound exit, Kamiyashiro-bound entrance only5-1Kamiyashiro JCT1.4
References
External links
Central Nippon Expressway Company