Ken-Ō Expressway

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468
国道468号

The Ken-O Expressway (圏央道 Ken-Ō Dō?), or Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway (首都圏中央連絡自動車道 Shuto-ken Chūō Renraku Jidōsha-dō?), is a partially-completed ticket system toll expressway in Japan, owned and operated by the Central Nippon Expressway Company and East Nippon Expressway Company. In conjunction with the Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line and the Bayshore Route of the Shuto Expressway, it will form a full outer ring road of Tokyo. It is assigned the national highway Route 468 number.

Portions of the existing Yokohama-Yokosuka Expressway, Shin-Shonan Bypass and Chiba-Togane Road and the planned Yokohama Ring Expressway will be incorporated into the road.

The section owned by the Central Nippon Expressway Company runs from the east end of the Shin-Shonan Bypass west along the bypass and north to interchange 42. The rest is owned by the East Nippon Expressway Company.

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The expressway will begin at the south end of the Bayshore Route in Yokohama, where it will head west on the existing branch of the Yokohama-Yokosuka Expressway to that road's main line. At the junction with the main line, the current expressway ends; ramp stubs are present to continue the road west. It will split from the planned Yokohama Ring Expressway and continue west to the east end of the Fujisawa Bypass (part of Route 1). An upgrade of that road will take it to the existing Shin-Shonan Bypass, an expressway, which it will split from as that road turns towards the south.

The Ken-O Expressway will then head north, crossing the Tomei Expressway and Chūō Expressway. North of the latter road, the present expressway begins, heading north and northeast to the junction with the Kan-Etsu Expressway. There it will continue east across the Tohoku Expressway and Joban Expressway; a short piece from the Joban Expressway east to the next interchange has been opened. It will turn southeast, crossing the Higashi-Kanto Expressway east of Narita Airport, and then running south to the present end of the Chiba-Togane Road, a two-lane expressway. Where that road abruptly turns west, the Ken-O Expressway will continue south, looping west to and at the junction of the Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line and Tateyama Expressway.

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Sections not yet opened are shown with a red background.

Number km Name Intersecting routes Opened Notes
Namiki (並木) Shuto Expressway Bayshore Route; Route 357 counterclockwise exit and clockwise entrance
Horiguchi Noukendai (堀口能見台) Route 16 counterclockwise exit and clockwise entrance
Kamariya Junction (釜利谷) Yokohama-Yokosuka Expressway; Route 16 bypass
Kuden (公田)
Sakae? Junction (栄) Yokohama Ring Expressway
Fujisawa (藤沢) Route 1 March 30, 1988
Chigasaki? (茅ヶ崎中央) March 30, 1988
Nishikubo Junction (西久保) Shin-Shonan Bypass; Route 1 bypass
Samukawa South (寒川南)
Samukawa North (寒川北)
Ebina South Junction (海老名南) Second Tomei Expressway
Ebina North Junction (海老名北) Tomei Expressway
Ebina North (海老名北)
Atsugi (圏央厚木) Route 129/Route 246
Sagamihara (相模原) Route 129
Shiroyama (城山)
Hachioji South (八王子南) Route 20 bypass
40 Hachioji Junction (八王子) Chūō Expressway
41 Hachioji North (八王子北)
42 Akiruno (あきる野) Route 411 March 21, 2005
43 Hinode (日の出) March 29, 2002
44 Ōme (青梅) March 26, 1996
45 Iruma (入間) Route 16 March 26, 1996
46 Sayama Hidaka (狭山日高) March 26, 1996
47 Tsurugashima (圏央鶴ヶ島) March 26, 1996
50 Tsurugashima Junction (鶴ヶ島) Kan-Etsu Expressway March 26, 1996
Sakado (坂戸)
Kawashima (川島) Route 254
Okegawa Junction (桶川) Route 17
Okegawa (桶川)
Shobu Shiraoka (菖蒲白岡) Route 122 bypass
Kuki Shiraoka Junction (久喜白岡) Tohoku Expressway
Satte (幸手)
Goka (五霞) Route 4 bypass
?? (境) Route 354 bypass
Sarusima Iwai (猿島岩井)
Mitsukaido (水海道) Route 294 bypass
Tsukuba (つくば)
80 Tsukuba Junction (つくば) Joban Expressway March 29, 2003
81 Tsukuba Ushiku (つくば牛久) Route 6 bypass March 29, 2003
Ami (阿見)
Ami South (阿見東)
Edosaki (江戸崎)
?? (東)
Kanzaki (神崎) Route 356 bypass
Shimofusa (下総)
Taiei Junction (大栄) Higashi-Kanto Expressway
Matsuo Yokoshiba (松尾横芝) March 30, 1998
Sanbu Naruto (山武成東) March 30, 1998
Togane Junction (東金) Chiba-Togane Road; Route 126 March 30, 1998
Mobara North (茂原北)
Mobara Chonan (茂原長南) Route 409
Ichihara South (市原南) Route 297
Kisarazu (木更津) Route 410 bypass
Kisarazu Junction (木更津) Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line; Tateyama Expressway

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