The (lit. Kansai Airport Expressway) is a 4-laned national expressway in

Izumisano, Osaka Izumisano (, , ) is a Cities of Japan, city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 99,008 in 49,638 households and a population density of 1800 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Izum ...

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. It is owned and operated by

West Nippon Expressway Company The , abbreviated as , is one of the main operators of expressways and toll roads in Japan. It is headquartered on the 19th floor of Dojima Avanza in Kita-ku, Osaka. The company was established on October 1, 2005, as a result of the privatization ...

Route description

The expressway is a short connector route linking the

Sky Gate Bridge R , also known as the , serves as a link between the mainland of Osaka, Japan to the artificial island in Osaka Bay on which Kansai International Airport is built. It is the longest double-decked truss bridge in the world. The bridge carries six ...

, and ultimately,

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport (), commonly known as Kankū (; ), is the primary international airport in the Keihanshin, Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. It is located on ...

, with the Hanwa Expressway. National Route 481 serves as a

frontage road A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. Where parallel high-speed roads are provided as part of a maj ...

for the expressway.

History

The Kansai-Kūkō Expressway opened on 2 April 1994, five months prior to the opening of

Junction list

The entire expressway is in

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

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West Nippon Expressway Company
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