The Kitakinki-Toyooka Expressway (北近畿豊岡自動車道, Kitakinki-Toyooka Jidōsha-dō), otherwise known as the Kitakinki Road, is an incomplete two-lane national expressway in Hyōgo 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 Hyōgo Prefecture Road Corporation. The route is signed E72 under MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[1]

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Kitakinki Toyo-oka Expressway
北近畿豊岡自動車道
Route information
Maintained by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Length	65.5 km (40.7 mi)
Existed	1977–present
Component highways	National Route 483
Major junctions
South end	Kasuga Interchange Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway in Tanba
North end	Hidaka-Kannabekōgen Interchange National Route 482 in Toyooka
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

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The entire expressway is in Hyōgo Prefecture. PA - parking area, TB - toll gate

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Location	km	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Tanba	0.0	0.0	3 / TB	Kasuga	National Route 175 / Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway	Southern terminus
	6.9	4.3	PA	Hikami	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 7 (Aogaki Kaibara Route)	Northbound access only to the parking area; full access to and from Route 7
	17.1	10.6	—	Aogaki	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 7 (Aogaki Kaibara Route)
	24.4	15.2	—	Tōzaka Ramp	National Route 427	Northbound entrance, southbound exit
Tanba / Asago border	25.5 28.1	15.8 17.5	Tōsaka Tunnel; marking the border between Tanba and Asago
Asago	28.6	17.8	TB	Tōsaka
	30.3	18.8	—	Santō	National Route 427
	33.9	21.1	PA	Santō		Known otherwise as “Michinoeki Tajima no Mahoroba”
	36.4	22.6	17	Wadayama	National Route 312 / Bantan Renraku Road south	Northern terminus of Bantan Renraku Road
Yabu	46.1	28.6	—	Yabu	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 70 (Jūni Shosawa Route)	Northbound exit, southbound entrance
	46.4– 49.4	28.8– 30.7	Yōka Tunnel
	50.1	31.1	—	Yōka-Hyōnosen	National Route 9
Toyooka	59.8	37.2	—	Hidaka Kannabe-Kōgen	National Route 482	Current northern terminus
	63.0	39.1	—	Hidaka-kita	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 1 (Hidaka Takeno Route)	Southbound entrance, northbound exit
	65.5	40.7	—	Tajima Airport	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 50 (Tajima Airport Route)	Northbound entrance, southbound exit
	67.5	41.9	—	Toyooka	Hyōgo Prefecture Route 727 (Toyooka Inter Route)	Opening in 2024
	73.0	45.4	—	Toyooka-kita	National Route 178 / San'in Kinki Expressway	Planned
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Unopened

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