Akita Expressway

Akita Expressway sign
Akita Expressway
E7 E46 秋田自動車道
Map
Route information
Length229.2 km[2][3] (142.4 mi)
Akita Sotokanjō Expressway: 9.5 km (5.9 mi)[4]
Kotooka Noshiro Road: 33.8 km (21.0 mi)[5]
Existed1991[1]–present
Component
highways
National Route 7
Akita Expressway
Akita Expressway
Major junctions
South endKitakami Junction in Kitakami, Iwate
Tōhoku Expressway
Major intersections
North endKosaka Junction in Kosaka, Akita
Tōhoku Expressway
Location
CountryJapan
Major citiesYokote, Daisen, Akita, Noshiro, Ōdate
Highway system

The Akita Expressway (秋田自動車道, Akita Jidōsha-dō) is a national expressway in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The 229.2-kilometer-long (142.4 mi) expressway begins at an interchange with the Tōhoku Expressway in Kitakami, Iwate from where it proceeds northwest towards the capital of Akita Prefecture, Akita. From there, it travels northeast back to another interchange along the Tōhoku Expressway in the town of Kosaka. It is jointly owned and operated by East Nippon Expressway Company and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). The Akita Expressway is numbered E7 between Kosaka and Kitakami Junctions and E46 between Kitakami and Kawabe Junctions under the MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[6]

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  4. ^ "E-NEXCO Expressway Data". Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2008.
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  6. ^ http://www.mlit.go.jp/road/sign/numbering/en/list/index.html: "Highway numbering list". Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Browse 18 June 2019.