How to say "junction" in Japanese

• ジャンクションCommon
  nounCovers the road-engineering sense of 'junction', especially a system interchange between highways. This is the word you want when talking about expressway junctions in traffic or driving contexts.
  私わたしたちはジャンクション１１で高速道路こうそくどうろを出でた。↗

  We left the motorway at junction 11.
• 分かれ目わかれめCommon
  nounA fork or parting of the ways: the point where something splits, literally for roads or figuratively for life decisions. It stresses the moment of parting rather than the junction as infrastructure.
• 分岐点ぶんきてんCommon
  nounA fork or diverging point, typically where roads, routes, or lines branch off. It names the physical point of divergence and is the natural choice for a road or route junction.
• 連結れんけつCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbMeans connection, linking, or coupling — the act of joining things together, not a place. It is seldom the word you want for 'junction' in the road sense; use it when the English means joining or coupling.
  ここでも、このアプローチがマシュー・アーノルドの「どこにも連結れんけつがある」という考かんがえに由来ゆらいしていることを見みて取とることができる。↗

  Again, we can see this approach as deriving from Matthew Arnold's idea that everywhere there is connection.

Use 「ジャンクション」 for a highway interchange, 分岐点 or 「分かれ目」 for a point where roads, paths, or figurative courses diverge, and 連結 for the act of connecting or coupling rather than a place.

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• ジャンクションjunction
• 分かれ目わかれめfork
• 分岐点ぶんきてんfork
• 連結れんけつconnection
• 分岐駅ぶんきえきjunction
• 接続駅せつぞくえきjunction
• 合流点ごうりゅうてんconfluence (of rivers)
• 合流地点ごうりゅうちてんconfluence (of rivers)
• ＪＣＴジェー・シー・ティー(highway) junction