Minami-Hanna Road

Minami-Hanna Road (南阪奈道路, Minami-Hanna Dōro) is a national expressway in the Kinki region of Japan. It is owned and operated by West Nippon Expressway Company. The route is signed E91 under Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[1]

Minami-Hanna Road
南阪奈道路
Route information
Maintained by West Nippon Expressway Company
Length	16.9 km (10.5 mi)
Existed	March 2004–present
Component highways	National Route 165 / National Route 166
Major junctions
West end	Mihara Junction
East end	Katsuragi Interchange
Location
Country	Japan
Major cities	Habikino, Taishi, Katsuragi
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

Taishi Toll Gate (For Mihara)

Route description

Minami-Hanna Road passes through Mihara-ku, Sakai, Sakai, Habikino, back into Mihara-ku, Sakai, and Habikino, back into Mihara-ku, Sakai, Habikino, and finally Taishi in Osaka Prefecture. It then crosses into Katsuragi in Nara Prefecture.

Naming

Hanna is a kanji acronym of two characters. The first character represents Osaka (大阪) and the second character represents Nara (奈良). Minami (南) means south.

History

Construction on the toll road was completed on 28 March 2004. After opening, the road was managed by the Osaka Prefecutural Road Public Corporation and Japan Highway Public Corporation.

On 1 April 2018, the Osaka Prefecutural Road Public Corporation transferred ownership between Mihara Junction and Habikino Interchange and the tolling of the road to NEXCO West Japan.^[2]

Junction list

TB= Toll booth

Prefecture	Location	km	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Osaka	Mihara-ku, Sakai	0.0	0.0	12-1	Mihara	Hanwa Expressway	Western terminus
		0.0	0.0	1	Mihara	Osaka Prefecture Route 32 – Sakai, Taishi, Osaka Prefecture Route 36 – Izumiōtsu	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
				TB	Tajihaya Toll Gate		Eastbound tollbooth
		2.2	1.4	2	Mihara-higashi	Osaka Prefecture Route 32	Westbound entrance, eastbound exit
	Habikino	4.6	2.9	3	Habikino	National Route 170 – Takatsuki, Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture Route 32
		7.5	4.7	4	Habikino-higashi	National Route 166 – Yamatotakada, Matsusaka	Westbound entrance, eastbound exit
	Taishi	9.5	5.9	5/TB	Taishi
Osaka / Nara border				Takeuchi Tunnel; marking the border between Osaka and Nara prefectures
Nara	Katsuragi	15.8	9.8	6	Katsuragi	National Route 166, Nara Prefecture Route 30 – Gose, Kashiba	Westbound entrance, eastbound exit
		16.9	10.5	—	Shinjō	National Route 24 / National Route 165 / National Route 166 (Yamato-Takada Bypass)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access