Sendai-Nanbu Road
仙台南部道路
Route information
Maintained by East Nippon Expressway Company
Length	24.8 km (15.4 mi)
Existed	1981–present
Component highways	National Route 6
Major junctions
West end	Sendai-minami Interchange Tōhoku Expressway in Taihaku-ku, Sendai
East end	Sendai-Wakabayashi Junction Sendai-Tōbu Road in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
Location
Country	Japan
Highway system
National highways of Japan Expressways of Japan

The Sendai-Nanbu Road (仙台南部道路, Sendai-Nanbu Dōro) is a toll road in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is owned and operated by the East Nippon Expressway Company (NEXCO East Japan). Along with the Sanriku Expressway, Sendai-Hokubu Road, Sendai-Tōbu Road, and Tōhoku Expressway it forms a ring road around the city, Sendai, known as the "Gurutto Sendai".^[1] The route is signed E48 under Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering."^[2]

History

The Sendai-Nanbu Road was originally built in phases between 1981 and 2001 by the Miyagi Prefecture Road Corporation.

On 1 July 2013, the Miyagi Prefecture Road Corporation transferred ownership and the tolling of the road to NEXCO East Japan.^[3]

Junction list

The entire expressway is in Miyagi Prefecture.

Location	km	mi	Exit	Name	Destinations	Notes
Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai	0	0.0	5	Sendai-Wakabayashi	Sendai-Tōbu Road – to Sanriku Expressway, Jōban Expressway, Ishinomaki, Iwaki, Fukushima
	1.2	0.75	1	Imaizumi	Miyagi Prefecture Route 54
Taihaku-ku, Sendai	3.7	2.3	2	Nagamachi	National Route 4 (Sendai Bypass)
	9.1	5.7	3	Yamada	National Route 286	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance
	12.2	7.6	27	Sendai-minami	Tōhoku Expressway – to Yamagata Expressway, Fukushima, Tokyo, Morioka, Aomori	Northern end of E48 concurrency with the Tōhoku Expressway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access