Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Sumidagawa Ohashi across the Sumida River

June 2011 (35.679 Degrees, 139.789 Degrees) Sumidagawa Ohashi

I must apologize for interrupting our forward progress for a temporary diversion back in Tokyo Bay. We now continue our journey up the Sumida River from the previously studied Eitai Bridge (seen in the background) to the double-deck (triple-deck?) Sumidagawa Ohashi, which carries the ubiquitous Metropolitan Expressway Viaduct back and forth along the Sumida like some parasitic growth continually blocking our view of the river and its bank.

An enemy to the enjoyment of urban life is the expressway that rushes commuters in and out of the area on ugly structures. Why is it that the elevated railway celebrates urban life while the elevated expressway denigrates it?

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Sumidagawa Ohashi across the Sumida River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.