Japan's Bridges: Jokawa Bridge across the Higashimatsushima River, Miyagi Prefecture

June 2011 (38.4199 Degrees, 141,2470 Degrees) Jokawa Bridge

Near the mouth of the Higashimatsushima River is the Jokawa Bridge, a three-span precast I girder bridge on pier walls and seat-type abutments. During the tsunami, a barge broke loose and struck the bridge, taking out the middle span and damaging the other spans. The tsunami waves also scoured the soil at the west abutment, leaving one of the spans (almost) surrounded by water.

Japan's Bridges: Jokawa Bridge across the Higashimatsushima River, Miyagi Prefecture by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.