6-600: The Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited ( 本州四国連絡高速道路株式会社 , Honshū-shikoku-renraku-kōsoku-dōro-kabushikigaisha ) , abbreviated as JB本四高速 ( JB honshi-kōsoku , with "JB" stands for " J apan B ridge") in Japanese or HSBE in English, operates the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto , Nishiseto , and Seto-Chūō expressways and their respective bridges between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku , Japan. It
12-767: Is 89.0 kilometres (55.3 mi) long with 24.3 kilometres (15.1 mi) of that stretch consisting of bridges, chiefly the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and Ōnaruto Bridge . The expressway has four lanes along the entire route from Kobe to Naruto in Tokushima, with an exception along the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, were it has six lanes. The speed limit is 70 km/h between Awajishima-minami Interchange and Naruto-kita Interchange, 100 km/h between Awaji Interchange and Seidan-Mihara Interchange as well as between Kobe-Nishi Interchange and Tarumi Junction. The remainder of
18-672: 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." The expressway
24-877: Is headquartered in Chūō-ku, Kōbe , Hyōgo Prefecture . The company was established on October 1, 2005 as a result of the privatization of its predecessor, the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority, itself a successor to the Japan Highway Public Corporation . The company is responsible for maintaining the three expressways and bridge systems between Honshu and Shikoku, as well as the management of the Seto-Ōhashi railway line. Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway 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 ) )
30-469: The expressway has a speed limit set at 80 km/h. On 8 June 1985 the first sections of the expressway opened. These were between Tsuna-Ichinomiya Interchange and Sumoto Interchange and between Naruto-kita Interchange and the now defunct Seidan Interchange. The latter of the two sections includes the Ōnaruto Bridge. On 23 May 1987, the road was extended south from Naruto-kita Interchange to its southern terminus at Naruto Interchange. Next, on 8 October 1987,
36-487: The highway between Sumoto IC and Seidan-Mihara Interchange was opened. The opening of Seidan-Mihara Interchange necessitated the closure of Seidan Interchange. On 5 April 1998 the highway between Kobe-Nishi Interchange and Tsuna-Ichinomiya Interchange was opened with the completion of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge. The most recent development on the expressway came on 17 February 2018, when the ETC -only Awajishima-chuo Smart Interchange
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