Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Agewa Ohashi Bridge (上輪大橋) on Route 8 (3)

August 2007 (37.325 Degrees, 138.454 Degrees) Agewa Ohashi

One last photo of the Agewa Bridge. The dense vegetation reflects the heavy rainfall and temperate climate along the west coast of Japan.

The spandrel bridge columns have slender diagonal members at the top sloping towards the center of the arch ribs to keep the whole thing stable. They did a remarkable job of preventing bridge damage during the 2007 earthquake.

Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Agewa Ohashi Bridge (上輪大橋) on Route 8 (3) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.