Yuzawa-Yokote Road

The Yuzawa-Yokote Road is a two-lane partially-tolled road in Akita Prefecture connecting the cities Yuzawa and Yokote while bypassing the original routing of Japan National Route 13. The road is jointly managed by the East Nippon Expressway Company and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is numbered E13 under the MLIT's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."
After 30 November 2023, it became a part of Tōhoku-Chūō Expressway, and the motorway section is guided as Tōhoku-Chūō Expressway.

Route description

The total length of Yuzawa-Yokote Road is. Distance markers on the road are derived from the distance markers of Route 13 rather than starting at zero at the origin of the road, so the beginning of the route at Route 13 in Yuzawa has a marker for rather than 0.

History

The first section of Yuzawa-Yokote Road opened in July 1991. The entire road was opened to traffic on 26 August 2007.

List of major junctions

The entire route is in Akita Prefecture. Yuzawa-Yokote Road is a direct extension of National Route 13. Therefore, the distance markers continue from the sequence of Route 13, starting at.