Japan's Bridges: Kitakami River Bridge in Miyagi Prefecture (1)

June 2011 (38.547 Degrees, 141.424 Degrees) Kitakami River Bridge

Continuing northeast about 4 km from its mouth is the new Kitakami River Bridge, a 566m long truss bridge carrying Route 398. It is a simple span bridge with seven 84.8m long spans. As the tsunami moved upstream (and back downstream) along the Kitakami River most of the damage occurred on the shallow (northwest side) including the removal of the last two bridge spans. When I arrived three months later the deck was still covered in debris and earth movers were busy regrading the riverbanks.

Japan's Bridges: Kitakami River Bridge in Miyagi Prefecture (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.