Color of Bridges in Japan

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Bridges in great variety types were worked out to get long span, or to fit to landform or geology,
and designed to harmonize with scene, bring about color in view.

Girder bridge or Beam bridge

Amarube viaduct (old)

Trestle bridge
In Hyogo pref.
Longest span 18.28m, total length 310.6m, height 41.45m, construction 1912.

Tsunoshima ohashi bridge

In Yamaguchi pref.
Longest span 102m, total length 1780m, construction 2000.

Iwama-chinkabashi

In Kochi pref.
Construction 1966.
Chinkabashi is a kind of bridge and that does not have railing in order that driftwood on flood may not break bridge.

Daisan-shimohimekawa viaduct.

In Niigata pref.
Total length 224.8m, construction 1935.

Arakawa viaduct of Chichibu railway.

In Saitama pref.
Longest span 18.99m, total length 153m, construction 1914.

Dairoku-Mashitagawa viaduct

In Gifu pref.
Longest span 22.3m, total length 193.35m, construction 1931.
Mashitagawa is Hida-gawa river.

Tokyo-metro Kandagawa viaduct

In Tokyo.
Span 36m.

Truss bridge

JR Tohoku line Shinkashigawa viaduct

Warren truss.
In Tokyo.
Longest span 47.092m, total length 87m, construction 1927.

Keikyu Yatsuyama bridge (Yatsuyama kosen senro kyo bridge)

Warren truss.
In Tokyo.
Longest span 48m, total length 48m, construction 1933.

JR Kawagoe-line Arakawa viaduct

Curved chord warren truss.
In Saitama pref.
Longest span 77.5m, total length 791.22m, construction 1940.

Togawa viaduct in Tobu railways

Pratt truss.
In Tochigi pref.
Longest span 62.738m, construction 1896.

Ichinotogawa viaduct

Baltimore truss.
In Fukushima pref.
Longest span 62.408m, total length 444.627m, construction 1910.

Minami-kawachibashi bridge

Lenticular truss.
In Fukuoka pref.
Longest span 66m, total length 133m, construction 1927.

Minato ohashi bridge

Cantilever truss.
In Osaka.
Longest span 510m, total length 980m, construction 1974.

Arch bridge

Tsujun-kyo bridge

Aqueduct bridge.
In Kumamoto pref.
Longest span 28m, total length 79.6m, height 21.3m, construction 1854.

Reitai-kyo bridge

In Kumamoto pref.
Longest span 28.3m, total length 90m, height 16.32m, construction 1847.

Yabakei-bashi bridge

In Ohita pref.
Longest span 12.8m, total length 116m, construction 1923.

Suirokaku

Aqueduct bridge.
In Kyoto.
Total length 93.2m, height 9m, construction 1888.

Daitanbagawa viaduct

In Tokyo.

Arakawa-suikan-kyo bridge

Aqueduct bridge.
In Saitama pref.
Longest span 104.132m, total length 1100.95m, construction 1984.

Matsushima-bashi bridge

In Kumamoto pref.
Longest span 126m, total length 177.7m, construction 1966.

Saikai-bashi bridge

In Nagasaki pref.
Longest span 243.7m, total length 316m, construction 1955.

Goshikizakura-ohashi bridge

In Tokyo.
Span 142m, total length 146m, construction 2002.

JR Sobu line Sumidagawa viaduct

In Tokyo.
Longest span 96m, total length 172m, construction 1932.

Suspension bridge

Akashi-kaikyo ohashi bridge

In Hyogo pref.
Longest span 1991m, total length 3911m, height of tower 298m, construction 1998.

Kiyosu-bashi bridge

In Tokyo.
Longest span 91.438m, total length 186.73m, construction 1928.

Cable-stayed bridge

Tatara ohashi bridge

Between Hiroshima pref and Ehime pref.
Longest span 890m, total length 1480m, height of tower 226m, construction 1998.

Iwakurojima-bashi bridge

In Kagawa pref.
Longest span 420m, total length 790m, construction 1988.
This bridge is a member of Seto-ohashi bridge.

Extradosed bridge

Fudo ohashi bridge

In Gunma pref.
Longest span 155m, total length 590m, height of deck 86m, construction 2011.

Moveable bridge

Suehiro viaduct

In Mie pref.
Usually this bridge is rised up for boats to go through this canal, when train pass, bridge comes down.