明石海峡大橋 | |
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| Coordinates | 34°36′58″N135°01′14″E / 34.6162°N 135.0205°ECoordinates: 34°36′58″N135°01′14″E / 34.6162°N 135.0205°E |
| Carries | Six lanes of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway and four emergency lanes |
| Crosses | Akashi Strait |
| Locale | Awaji Island and Kobe |
| Other name(s) | Pearl Bridge[1] |
| Maintained by | Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited (JB Honshi Kōsoku) |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Suspension bridge |
| Total length | 3,911 metres (12,831 ft; 2.430 mi) |
| Height | 282.8 metres (928 ft) (pylons) |
| Longest span | 1,991 metres (6,532 ft; 1.237 mi) |
| Clearance below | 65.72 metres (215.6 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Satoshi Kashima |
| Construction start | 1988 |
| Construction end | 1998 |
| Opened | April 5, 1998 |
| Statistics | |
| Toll | ¥2,300 |
| Location | |
The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge (明石海峡大橋, Akashi Kaikyō Ō-hashi), also known as the Pearl Bridge, is the world's longest suspension bridge.[2]
Akashi-Kaikyō connects the island of Honshu with Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea. The bridge is part of the Honshu-Shikoku Highway which allows cars to cross the Akashi Strait.[2]
History[change | change source]
Construction begin in May 1988. The bridge was opened on April 5, 1998.[2]
Akashi Kaikyo (明石海峡） Bridge is the largest suspension bridge in the world and it is located in Japan. The total span of the Bridge is 3911 meters and the bri.
- Akashi Kaikyo Bridge also called “Pearl Bridge” is located in Japan and considered as Japan’s finest engineering feat. Akashi Kaiko Bridge is the world’s longest suspension bridge in the world with a length of 3911 meters (12,831 ft). The Akashi Kaiko Bridge acts as a link between the city of Kobe and Iwaya by crossing the Akashi strait. Akashi Kaikyo Bridge construction was finished.
- DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE AKASHI KAIKYO BRIDGE. The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a 3-span, 2-hinged stiffening truss suspension bridge being 3910 m long with a center span of 1990 m.
The cost of building the bridge is estimated at 500 billion yen.[2]
References[change | change source]
- ↑'Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Akashi Strait, Japan'. Road Traffic Technology. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ 2.02.12.22.3Cooper, James D. 'World's Longest Suspension Bridge Opens in Japan,'Public Roads (US), July/August 1998, Vol. 62, No. 1; retrieved 2012-3-24.
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| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge. |
- Structurae, Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, also called the Pearl Bridge Japan, became the world’s longest suspension bridge when measured by the length of its main span in 1998. It retains that ranking today. The other famous bridges on the top five longest list include the Xihoumen Bridge in China, the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark, the Runyang Bridge over the Yangtze River in China, and the Humber Bridge in England.
The Pearl Bridge Japan suspension bridge spans the Akashi Strait, connecting the city of Kobe on Honshu Island to Awaji Island. The Akashi Strait is part of the Inland Sea, a significant and busy international waterway that touches on the important port of Osaka. One of the facts about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is that it provides a critical and cost-saving transportation link to the three main islands of Japan.
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge also provides more economical and faster transportation to Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, and Kagawa. The Pearl Bridge Japan even makes getting to the city of Iwakuni and the famous stone Kintai Bridge easier. The Kintai Bridge is one of the most famous bridges in all of Japan. Built in the seventeenth century, it is an elegant historic structure around which several thousand trees burst out in beautiful cherry blossoms each spring.
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The historical facts about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge began as long ago as 1955, when a ferry crossing the Akashi Strait sank when it collided with another ferry. A total of 168 people, mostly children, on the first ferry drowned in the disaster. Engineers and planners were faced with the challenge of creating a bridge that would withstand earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. They needed a structure that would not impede busy and crucial commercial shipping. The current structure has withstood the 1995 Kobe earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and can weather winds up to 180-miles-per-hour.
Construction on the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge finally began in 1988. Ten years and 2 million workers later, the bridge was opened in 1998. It was a monumental engineering feat that required enough steel cable to encircle the earth seven times. It ranks with the huge Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Palm Deira Island in Dubai, the Bird’s Nest Stadium of the Beijing Summer Olympics, and the Viaduct de Millau in France as one of the greatest engineering marvels of the last couple centuries.
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Other fascinating facts about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge include its length of 12,828 feet, long enough to accommodate the Brooklyn Bridge four times. You can lay eight Chicago Willis Towers along its length. It is one of the longest bridges in the world, and is the world's largest suspension bridge. Its towers also enter into any book of records. They are 928 feet high, making it the third tallest in the world, after the Villau Viaduct and the Sutong Bridge in China. Being the tallest doesn’t necessarily make it the highest. Highest is measured by distance between the surface of the bridge and the ground/water surface below. By this standard, the Royal Gorge Bridge in Canon City, Colorado, is higher. Even though its towers are only 150 feet long, it is a fairly breathtaking 1,053 feet above the canyon floor and river below.
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