Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Motomura (本村橋) Bashi across the Yoko Jikkengawa

March 2012 (35.689 Degrees, 139.820 Degrees) Motomura Bridge

The next bridge is the single span, steel girder Motomurabashi. For some reason, it's also called the Honmurabashi which means Village Books Bridge, although I couldn't figure out why and the Google translated website was not of much help. However, it did say that this bridge was built in 1977 and replaced the previous bridge at this site that was built in 1927. So the Shimizu Bridge (just north to the north) was left standing while this bridge was replaced. Probably with a wider structure to handle the increased traffic on Route 50 (Shin-Ohashi Dori).

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Motomura (本村橋) Bashi across the Yoko Jikkengawa by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.