Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Hesei (平成橋) Bridge across the Naka Gawa

March 2012 (35.685 Degrees, 139.846 Degrees) Hesei Bridge

As we paddled east from the Onagi into the Nakagawa, I took a quick photograph to the south of the Hesei (平成橋) Bridge, a single span tied arch structure with 'I' girder hangers and box girder arch ribs. This bridge was built in 1994 and spans 105 meters across the Nakagawa. 


The bridge acts as an evacuation route, perhaps from floods. Note in the Google Earth photo below that it is the last bridge across the Nakagawa before the Arakawa Flood Gates.  

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Hesei ((平成橋) ) Bridge across the Naka Gawa by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.