Mei-Nikan Expressway


The Mei-Nikan Expressway, or Nagoya Daini Kanjō Expressway, 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

No.NameConnectionsDist. from
Nagoya IC		Notes
Nagoya IC0.0Entrance/exit for local roads only accessible from Tōmei Expressway
5-2Hongō ICPref. Route 60 0.5Nagoya IC-bound exit, Kamiyashiro-bound entrance only
5-1Kamiyashiro JCT1.4