Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway

Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway
神戸淡路鳴門自動車道
Route information
Maintained by Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company
Length	89.0 km (55.3 mi)
Existed	1985–present
Component highways	National Route 28
Major junctions
North end	Kobe-nishi Interchange AH1 San'yō Expressway in Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo
South end	Sakaide Interchange Takamatsu Expressway in Naruto, Tokushima
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

The Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway (神戸淡路鳴門自動車道, Kōbe-Awaji-Naruto Jidōsha-dō, shortened to Shintanmei-dō (神淡鳴道)) is a tolled expressway that connects Hyōgo and Tokushima prefectures in Japan by crossings of the Akashi Strait and Naruto Strait. Built between 1970 and 1998, it is one of the three routes of the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands. The route is signed E28 under Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[1]