Japan's Bridges: Route 4 Bridges over the Umeda in Miyagi Prefecture

June 2011 (38.273 Degrees, 140.939 Degrees) Umeda River Bridges

Back on National Route 4, driving north over the Umeda River, a tributary of the Nanakitagawa. I like these brightly painted steel arch bridges that carry the frontage roads on the sides of the highway bridges. In California, the tendency would be to build the adjacent bridges either attached to the existing bridges, or in the same style as the existing bridges. Japan is not like that for some reason.

Japan's Bridges: Route 4 Bridges over the Umeda in Miyagi Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.