Miyagi, Japan's Bridges: Bridges over the Hachiman River

March 2012 (38.675 Degrees, 141.448 Degrees) Highway 221 Bridge

A photo of the Hachiman River in downtown Minami Sanriku one year after the Tohoku Earthquake. We are looking downstream at the floodgates that were closed before the tsunami but overtopped the adjacent seawalls and flooded the city. Most of the people who sought shelter in nearby tsunami evacuation buildings were drowned. However, none of the bridges were seriously damaged.

Miyagi, Japan's Bridges: Bridges over the Hachiman River by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.