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

June 2011 (35.662 Degrees, 139.775 Degrees) Kachidoki Bridge

Here's the view looking upstream at the Kachidoki Bridge from the back of the cruise boat that travels from Hinode Island in Tokyo Bay to just past the Asahi Brewery and the Tobu Railway Bridge. The bridge is 246 m long and 22 m wide. There are two steel tied arch spans and two bascule lift spans between the arches. The movable spans opened five times a day until 1970.

The Sumida River used to be the Arakawa until the Arakawa was diverted to the east to reduce flooding through downtown Tokyo.

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Kachidoki Bridge across the Sumida River (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.