Daisuke Niwa Avenue

Daisuke Niwa Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym DANA or Inner Circular Route, is the oldest limited-access circumferential freeway around Kaijo Metropolis, the largest urban conurbation in the Federal Kingdom of Teiko. It is the main thoroughfare in Greater Kaijo passing through 9 of the city's 20 wards namely from the northern terminus to the southern end: Fukuoka, Aoi, Sakai, Fuma, Tomoya, Shirofuku, Yuta, Nozaki and Manato. The road links the Rakuzan-Kaijo Expressway at Tomoya Junction and Seirin-Beika-Takezaki Expressway at Nozaki Junction, as well as major financial districts of Akashi Global City, Aoi and Aramaki. In popular culture, it is considered as the most congested highway in the country servicing an average daily volume of 250,000 vehicles.