| Country: | JPN |
| Type: | Expressway |
| Maint: | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism |
| Route: | Kyushu Chūō |
| Length Km: | 95 |
| Established: | 2006 |
| Direction A: | West |
| Terminus A: | Kashima Junction Kyushu Expressway in Kashima, Kumamoto |
| Direction B: | East |
| Terminus B: | Nobeoka Interchange Higashikyushu Expressway in Nobeoka, Miyazaki |
The is an incomplete two-lane national expressway in that crosses the island of Kyushu, namely in Kumamoto Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture. It is owned and operated primarily by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), but has a short section maintained and tolled by the West Nippon Expressway Company at its western terminus at the Kyushu Expressway. The route is signed E77 under MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."[1]
| No. | Name | Connections | Dist. from Origin | Bus stop | Notes | Location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-2 | Kashima JCT | 0.0 | Kumamoto | Kashima | |||||
| TB | Mashiki TB | 0.9 | Mashiki | ||||||
| 1 | Oike-Takayama IC | (Tsuchiyama Bypass) | 1.8 | Mifune | |||||
| 2 | Ueno-Yoshimuta IC | Pref. Route 221 (Tashiro Mifune Route) | |||||||
| 3 | Yamato Nakashima-Nishi IC | 12.6 | Yamato | ||||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Kita-Nakashima IC | Pref. Route 152 (Inanoo Kōsa Route) | Planned | |||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Yabe IC | 23.0 | Planned | |||||
| 18 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by | |||||||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Soyō IC | style="background-color:#ffdead; text-align: right; " | - | Planned | ||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Gokase-Nishi IC | style="background-color:#ffdead; text-align: right; " | - | Planned | Miyazaki | Gokase | ||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Gokase-Higashi IC | (Gokase Takachiho Road) | 0.0 | Planned northbound exit, southbound entrance | ||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Takachiho IC | (Gokase Takachiho Road) | 9.2 | Planned | Takachiho | |||
| Planned | |||||||||
| style="background-color:#ffdead; " | - | Makado Intersection | (Takachiho Hinokage Road) Pref. Route 7 (Ogata Takachiho Route) | Planned Beginning of concurrency with Takachiho Hinokage Road. | |||||
| 0.6 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by | |||||||||
| Unkai-bashi Intersection | 0.0 | South end of concurrency with Takachiho Hinokage Road. | |||||||
| Hinokage-Fukasumi IC | 2.8 | Hinokage | |||||||
| style="background-color:#BFB; " | - | Hirasoko Intersection | (Takachiho Hinokage Road) | 5.1 | |||||
| 16 km gap in the expressway, connection is made by | |||||||||
| Kurata Intersection | (Kitakata Nobeoka Road) | 0.0 | Nobeoka | ||||||
| Kitagata IC | Pref. Route 242 (Kitagata Interchange Route) | 4.6 | |||||||
| Maino IC | 11.0 | northbound exit, southbound entrance | |||||||
| 22 | Nobeoka JCT/IC | Higashikyushu Expressway (Nobeoka Road) Nobeoka Interchange Road | 13.1 | ○ | |||||