Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Sakura Bridge across the Sumida River (2)

March 2012 (35.717 Degrees, 139.807 Degrees) Sakura Bashi
Continuing upstream the next bridge is the Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Pedestrian Bridge. The bridge has an 'X' shaped steel box girder superstructure, with two hammerhead piers in the river and four seat-type abutments on the riverbanks. The bridge was completed in 1985. It is 556 ft long and has a variable width (about 40 ft wide at the center of the span).

In the Google Earth Photo below we can see that the bridge has changed a little since I last photographed it in 1994 (see my May 27, 2009 blog). Large white cones now sit on the deck where the legs meet. We'll take a closer look at the bridge tomorrow.
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Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Sakura Bridge across the Sumida River (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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