The is a free national
expressway in the
Japanese prefecture
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of
Ishikawa. As of July 2019, it connects the town
Uchinada to the town
Wajima, spanning nearly the entire
Noto Peninsula
The Noto Peninsula (, ''Noto-hantō'') is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. Th ...
from south to north. Much of the northern portion of the road runs concurrently with the
Nōetsu Expressway
The is an incomplete national expressway in Toyama Prefecture and Ishikawa Prefecture. It is owned and operated primarily by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), but also has sections maintained and tolled by the ...
. It is owned and operated by
(MLIT) and is signed as E41 and E86 under their "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."
History
The Noto-Satoyama Kaidō was first opened as the tolled between Takamatsu and Yanaida interchanges on 21 July 1973 by the Ishikawa Prefecture Toll Road Corporation. In August of the same year it was extended south to Shiroo Interchange. When the highway was extended north to Tokudaotsu Interchange in 1982, its name was changed to the .
The Noto Toll Road was damaged by the
2007 Noto earthquake, a
magnitude
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6.9 earthquake that closed sections of the road for six months.
The toll road was released from the Ishikawa Prefecture Toll Road Corporation on 1 April 2013 and all tolls were removed. When MLIT took control of the highway after its release by the Ishikawa Prefecture Toll Road Corporation, it was given its current name, the Noto-Satoyama Kaidō.
Junction list
The entire expressway is in Ishikawa Prefecture. Exits are not numbered. PA= Parking area, SA= Service area
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Noto-Satoyama Kaido
Expressways in Japan
Roads in Ishikawa Prefecture
1973 establishments in Japan