Hamada Expressway
Expressway in Hiroshima and Shimane prefecture, Japan
The Hamada Expressway (浜田自動車道, Hamada Jidōsha-dō) is a national expressway in the Chūgoku region of Japan. It is owned and operated by West Nippon Expressway Company.
01Overview
The expressway is officially referred to as the Chūgoku-Ōdan Expressway Hiroshima Hamada Route. Together with the Chūgoku Expressway and Hiroshima Expressway, the expressway forms a link connecting the greater Hiroshima area with western Shimane Prefecture.
The first section of the expressway was opened to traffic in 1989 and the entire route was completed in 1991. The entire route is 2 lanes with the exception of the short (1.3 km) section between Hamada Junction and Hamada Interchange.
02List of interchanges and features
- IC - interchange, SIC - smart interchange, JCT - junction, SA - service area, PA - parking area, BS - bus stop, TN - tunnel, BR - bridge
| No. | Name | Connections | Dist. from Origin |
Bus Stop | Notes | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (25) | Chiyoda JCT | Chūgoku Expressway | 0.0 | Kitahiroshima | Hiroshima | ||
| BS | Chiyoda-nishi BS | 2.1 | ○ | ||||
| - | Kurasako Chain Base | 4.8 | |||||
| 1 | Ōasa IC | National Route 261 Hiroshima Prefectural Route 5 |
12.6 | ○ | |||
| PA | Kanbikizan PA | 16.5 | |||||
| - | Ōtsuka Chain Base | 18.7 | |||||
| TN | Inokoyama Tunnel | Length - 2,595 m (8,514 ft) | |||||
| Ōnan | Shimane | ||||||
| - | Ichiki Chain Base | 22.3 | adjacent to Inokoyama Tunnel | ||||
| 2 | Mizuho IC | Shimane Prefectural Route 5 Shimane Prefectural Route 50 |
24.2 | ○ | |||
| - | Chain Base | only accessible to Chiyoda JCT-bound traffic | Hamada | ||||
| BS | Shigetomi BS | 34.9 | ○ | ||||
| - | Asahi Chain Base | 36.0 | |||||
| 3 | Asahi IC | Shimane Prefectural Route 52 Shimane Prefectural Route 329 |
39.2 | ○ | |||
| 3-1 | Kanagi PA/SIC | 47.0 | ○ | ||||
| 3-2 | Hamada JCT | San'in Expressway | 55.3 | ||||
| TB | Hamada TB | 56.0 | |||||
| 4 | Hamada IC | National Route 9 (Hamada Bypass) | 56.6 | ||||
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hamada Expressway”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hamada Expwy Route Sign.svg by Broad-Sky in Japan Font "GD-HighwayGothicJA" - pumpCurry in Japan, Public domain
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