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The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Japanese: 明石海峡大橋, Hepburn: Akashi Kaikyō Ōhashi) is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu and Iwaya, Awaji on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait (Akashi Kaikyō in Japanese).
The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge at the time of its construction in 1998, and connects Kobe to Awaji Island (Awaji, Hyogo). The others are the Ōnaruto Bridge, connecting Awaji to Ōge Island (Naruto, Tokushima) across the Naruto Strait, and the Muya Bridge connecting Ōge Island with Shikoku.
Opened in 1931, it is the suspension bridge with the most lanes of traffic (at fourteen total on two levels). Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge (Japan). Opened in 1999, it is the world's longest suspension bridge structure. Great Seto Bridge (Japan). Opened in 1978 and 1988, it is the longest two-tiered bridge system (but not all of the spans that make ...
Largest stone aqueduct in Japan Important Cultural Property (1960) 84 m (276 ft) Masonry 271 arches: Aqueduct Rogataki River. 1854: ... Akashi Kaikyō Bridge:
Satoshi Kashima (加島 聰, Kashima Satoshi) is a Japanese civil engineer. He was lead designer/engineer of the longest suspension bridge in the world, the 3,911-meter Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (also known as the Pearl Bridge) located in Japan which was completed in 1998.
President Donald Trump has placed holds on tens of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved spending for projects across the U.S. that range from Iowa soybean farmers adopting greener ...
Awaji island map. The island is separated from Honshū by the Akashi Strait and from Shikoku by the Naruto Strait.Since April 5, 1998, it has been connected to Kobe on Honshū by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the second longest suspension bridge in the world. [3]
L.A.-based artist Kelly Akashi, who works with photography and sculpture, among other mediums, has her first museum retrospective on view at the San Jose Museum of Art.