 It starts at a junction with its parent route, the main line of National Route 7, near the Sannai-Maruyama archaeological site in southwestern Aomori city.From there, it travels southeast towards Aomori Interchange, a junction between the Aomori Belt Highway and the northern terminus of the Tōhoku Expressway.Curving to the south and then east, it passes by the Sannai-Maruyama site and the Aomori Museum of Art and then begins paralleling the Aomori Expressway.