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New Highway Link to Bring Oita, Miyazaki Closer Together

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Kyushu Regional Development Bureau announced that the section of the Higashi-Kyushu Expressway between the Saiki and Kamae interchanges in Oita Prefecture will open on Mar. 21. The 20.4km link will complete the connection between Oita and Miyazaki cities and reduce total travel time by 20 minutes to 2 hours and 50 minutes. The national government and the prefectures of Oita and Miyazaki spent ¥ 77.6 billion to complete the new section of road which will be toll-free. They also built an interchange (Saiki-Katata) halfway between Saiki and Kamae in response to local demands. When complete, the Higashi-Kyushu Highway will run 436km from Kitakyushu through Oita and Miyazaki to Kajiki in Kagoshima. About 70% of the road is complete, as of December 2014. The missing links between Kitakyushu and Miyazaki are Shiida-Minami to Buzen in Fukuoka Prefecture (slated to open in the spring of 2016) and Buzen to Usa, Oita Prefecture (slated to open before the end of fiscal 2014). Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 1/17

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Published: Jan 19, 2015 / Last Updated: Apr 1, 2016

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