Niigata Japan's Bridges: Osu Bridge across the U River (2)

August 2007 (37.3635 Degrees, 138.5478 Degrees) Osu Bashi

The south end of the bridge (with the tall abutment) had a lot more damage than the north end during the 2007 earthquake due to the embankment settling almost two meters and breaking a water line.

Like the other bridges across the U River, the Osu Bridge has pedestals with name plaques that also serve to support the barrier rail. I wonder why they have a fence on the west side of the bridge but not the east side?

Tomorrow we'll take a look under the bridge.

Niigata Japan's Bridges: Osu Bridge across the U River (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.