Nishi-Meihan Expressway

Nishi-Meihan Expressway (西名阪自動車道, Nishimeihan Jidōshadō) is a national expressway in the Kinki region of Japan. It is owned and operated by West Nippon Expressway Company.

Naming

Meihan is a kanji acronym of two characters. The first character represents Nagoya (名古屋) and the second character represents Osaka (大阪). Nishi (西) means west; together with the Meihan Highway and Higashi-Meihan Expressway, it forms a corridor linking the greater Nagoya and Osaka areas.

Passage cities

• Osaka Prefecture

Matsubara - Fujiidera - Habikino - Kashiwara

• Nara Prefecture

Kashiba - Kanmaki - Kawai - Ando - Yamatokōriyama - Ando - Yamatokōriyama - Tenri

Interchanges and Junctions

• (10) Matsubara Junction
• TB Matsubara Toll Gate
• 1 Fujiidera Interchange
• TB Kashiwara Toll Gate
• 2 Kashiwara Interchange
• SA Kashiba Service Area
• 3 Kashiba Interchange
• 4 Hōryūji Interchange
• 5 kōriyama Interchange
• TB/PA Tenri Toll Gate/Tenri Parking Area
• 6 Tenri Interchange

External links

• (Japanese) West Nippon Expressway Company

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Expressways of Japan
East Nippon Expressway Company	Akita Aomori Ban-etsu Dōtō Hachinohe Higashi-Kantō Hokkaidō Hokuriku Jōban Jōshin-etsu Kamaishi Kan-Etsu Ken-Ō Kita-Kantō Nagano Nihonkai-Tōhoku Sasson Shin-Kūkō Tateyama Tōhoku Tōhoku-Chūō Tokyo Gaikan Yamagata
Central Nippon Expressway Company	Chūbu-Ōdan Chūō Higashi-Meihan Hokuriku Ise Isewangan Ken-Ō Kisei Meishin Nagano Shin-Meishin Shin-Tōmei Tōkai-Hokuriku Tōmei
West Nippon Expressway Company	Chūgoku Hamada Hanwa Harima Higashikyūshū Hiroshima Kanmonkyo Bridge Kansai-Kūkō Kinki Kōchi Kyūshū Maizuru-Wakasa Matsue Matsuyama Meishin Miyazaki Nagasaki Nishi-Meihan Ōita Okayama Okinawa Onomichi San-in Sanyō Shin-Meishin Takamatsu Tokushima Yonago
Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company	Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Nishiseto Seto-Chūō
Urban Expressways	Fukuoka & Kitakyūshū Hanshin Hiroshima Nagoya Shuto Tokyo