Japan's Bridges: Route 48 Bridge and Tunnel in Miyage Prefecture

June 2011 (38.2599 Degrees, 140.8204 Degrees) Route 48 Bridge and Tunnel

I thought I'd include this photo because it gives you a sense of what it's like riding in a car in Japan (steering wheel on the right and elaborate navigation system) and it also includes a photo I accidentally took of myself in the rearview mirror. We are driving east on Route 48 on a bridge that goes over a channel just before entering a tunnel that goes under Tohoku University's campus. On the other side of the tunnel is the city of Sendai. We are leaving the hillside community of Oritate, which had a great deal of landslide damage during the earthquake. This is the most western bridge photo I took in Miyagi Prefecture.

Japan's Bridges: Route 48 Bridge and Tunnel in Miyage Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.