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HISTORY

  • June 30 , 1971 , near Kumamoto to Kumamoto Interchange became opened

  • October 21 , 1972 , from Nankan to north of Kumamoto was opened

  • November 16 , 1973 , Tosu Interchange and Junction to Nankan was open to traffic

  • December 13 , 1973 , Satsuma Yoshida to Kajiki Interchange was opened to traffic

  • March 13 , 1975 , Koga Interchange to Tosu Junction was open t traffic

  • March 4 , 1976 , Ebuno Junction with the Miyazaki Expressway to Ebuno Interchange was opened.

  • November 26 , 1976 , The section was opened to traffic from Kumatoto to Mifune Interchanges

  • November 29 , 1976 , A secton from Mizobe Kagoshimna Airport to Kajiki Interchanges was opened

  • July 21 , 1977 , A section from Wakamiya to Koga was open to traffic

  • November 15 , 1977 , a section from Yoshida Satsuma to Kagoshima North Interchanges was opened

  • December 15 , 1978 , a section from Mifune to Matsubase Interchanges was opened

  • March 8 , 1979 , A section from Wakamiya to Koga Interchanges was opened

  • March 12 , 1980 , a section from Matsubase to Yatsushiri Interchanges was opened

  • March 22 , 1980 a section from Kurino to Mizobe-Kagoshima Airport was opened

  • October 1 , 1981 , a section from Ebuno Junction to Kurino Interchange opened made that section ran from Ebuno to Kagoshima North interchanges that time

  • March 27 , 1984 , a section from Moji to Kokura Higashi was opened which made access to the bridge with Honshu

  • February 5 , 1987 , The Tosu Junction in the east was opened.

  • March 29 , 1988 , a section from Kagoshima North to Kagoshima was opened with an interchange with the expressway.

  • December 7 , 1989 , a section from Yatsushiro to Hitoyoshi was opened to traffic

  • March 25 , 1992 , a section in the Kajiki Interchange with the road was opened

  • March 31 , 1993 , the New Moji Interchange was opened

  • July 27 , 1995 , a section from Hitoyoshi to Ebuno was opened to traffic which made the Kyushu Expressway from Moji to Kagoshima fully accessible with no gaps.

  • April 20 , 1998, the Yatsushiro Junction was opened to traffic with another freeway

  • December 19, 2001 Kajiki Junction was opened to traffic

  • December 18, 2004 , the tunnel from Hitoyoshi to Ebuno Interchanges which made Kyushu Expressway with four lanes now being connected with no gaps



INTERCHANGES




LANES


  • 6-lane, Dazaifu to Kurume Interchanges

  • 4-lane, Moji to Dazaifu Interchange and from Kurume to Kagoshima Interchanges



EXTERNAL LINKS


  • http://www.kyushu-jhnet.jp (in Japanese)