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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 expressway is 89.0 kilometres (55.3 mi) long with 24.3 kilometres (15.1 mi) of that stretch consisting of bridges, chiefly the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and Ōnaruto Bridge. The expressway has four lanes along the entire route from Kobe to Naruto in Tokushima, with an exception along the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, were it has six lanes. The speed ...
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]
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 up the bridge system are suspension bridges). Sky Bridge 721 (Czech Republic). Opened in 2022, it is the ...
The Akashi Strait (明石海峡, Akashi Kaikyō) is a strait between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Awaji. The strait connects Seto Inland Sea and Osaka Bay. The width of the Akashi Strait is approximately 4 kilometers, and maximum depth is about 110 meters. [1] The fastest tidal current is about 4.5 metres per second (8.7 knots). [1]
Oldest existing modern suspension bridge in Japan Important Cultural Property (2003) ... Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: ... Kobe Hyōgo [S 36] 22: Megami ...
The city of Awaji occupies the northern third of Awaji Island. It is connected to Kobe City to the north by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, and is sandwiched between Osaka Bay and the Gulf of Harima on the Seto Inland Sea. There are no large rivers in the city, but there are many agricultural ponds.
Akashi is located in southern Hyōgo prefecture, and is a long and narrow municipality along the Seto Inland Sea.It is separated from Awaji Island by Harima Bay; however, the terminus of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, which connects Honshu to Awaji Island and to Shikoku, is not in Akashi but in Tarumi-ku, Kōbe.