Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway

Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway sign
Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway
E28 神戸淡路鳴門自動車道
Map
Route information
Maintained by Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company
Length89.0 km (55.3 mi)
Existed1985–present
Component
highways
National Route 28
Major junctions
North endKobe-nishi Interchange
E2 AH1 San'yō Expressway
in Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo
South endSakaide Interchange
Takamatsu Expressway
in Naruto, Tokushima
Location
CountryJapan
Highway system

The Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway (神戸淡路鳴門自動車道, Kōbe-Awaji-Naruto Jidōsha-dō, shortened to Shintanmei-dō (神淡鳴道)) is a tolled expressway that connects Hyōgo and Tokushima prefectures in Japan by crossings of the Akashi Strait and Naruto Strait. Built between 1970 and 1998, it is one of the three routes of the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands. The route is signed E28 under Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[1]

  1. ^ "Japan's Expressway Numbering System". www.mlit.go.jp.