The Tokachi-Okhotsk Expressway (十勝オホーツク自動車道, Tokachi Ohōtsuku Jidōsha-dō) is a two-lane national expressway in Tokachi Subprefecture and Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
It is owned and operated by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and is signed as E61 under their "2016 Proposal for Realization of Expressway Numbering.
"[2] The first section of the expressway to open was a 5.8-kilometer (3.6 mi) long section between Kitami-higashi Interchange and Kitami-nishi Interchange on 31 March 2013.
Later that year on 24 December, Kitami-chūō and Kitami-kitagami interchanges were added along the section that opened in March.
[4] The Tokachi-Okhotsk Expressway is planned to have a total length of approximately 79 kilometers (49 mi) upon completion.