Kitakinki-Toyooka Expressway

Kitakinki Toyo-oka Expressway
Kitakinki Toyo-oka Expressway
北近畿豊岡自動車道
Route information
	Maintained by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Length	65.5 km (40.7 mi)
Existed	1977–present
Component; highways	National Route 483
Major junctions
South end	Kasuga Interchange; Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway; in Tanba
North end	Hidaka-Kannabekōgen Interchange; National Route 482 in Toyooka
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
	National highways of Japan; Expressways of Japan;

The Kitakinki-Toyooka Expressway (北近畿豊岡自動車道, Kitakinki-Toyooka Jidōsha-dō), otherwise known as the Kitakinki Road, is an incomplete two-lane national expressway in Hyōgo Prefecture. It is owned and operated primarily by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), but has a short section maintained and tolled by the Hyōgo Prefecture Road Corporation. The route is signed E72 under MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[1]

Junction list

The entire expressway is in Hyōgo Prefecture. PA – parking area, TB – toll gate

Location	km	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Tanba	0.0	0.0	3 / TB	Kasuga	National Route 175 / Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway	Southern terminus
	6.9	4.3	PA	Hikami	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 7 (Aogaki Kaibara Route)	Northbound access only to the parking area; full access to and from Route 7
	17.1	10.6	—	Aogaki	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 7 (Aogaki Kaibara Route)
	24.4	15.2	—	Tōzaka Ramp	National Route 427	Northbound entrance, southbound exit
Tanba / Asago border	25.5 28.1	15.8 17.5	Tōsaka Tunnel; marking the border between Tanba and Asago
Asago	28.6	17.8	TB	Tōsaka
	30.3	18.8	—	Santō	National Route 427
	33.9	21.1	PA	Santō		Known otherwise as “Michinoeki Tajima no Mahoroba”
	36.4	22.6	17	Wadayama	National Route 312 / Bantan Renraku Road south	Northern terminus of Bantan Renraku Road
Yabu	46.1	28.6	—	Yabu	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 70 (Jūni Shosawa Route)	Northbound exit, southbound entrance
	46.4– 49.4	28.8– 30.7	Yōka Tunnel
	50.1	31.1	—	Yōka-Hyōnosen	National Route 9
Toyooka	59.8	37.2	—	Hidaka Kannabe-Kōgen	National Route 482	Current northern terminus
	63.0	39.1	—	Hidaka-kita	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 1 (Hidaka Takeno Route)	Southbound entrance, northbound exit
	65.5	40.7	—	Tajima Airport	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 50 (Tajima Airport Route)	Northbound entrance, southbound exit
	67.5	41.9	—	Toyooka	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 727 (Toyooka Inter Route)	Opening in 2024
	73.0	45.4	—	Toyooka-kita	National Route 178 / San'in Kinki Expressway	Planned
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Incomplete access Unopened