Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Komagata Bridge from the Deck of the Azuma Bridge

June 2011 (35.710 Degrees, 139.799 Degrees) Azuma Bridge

A view looking back at the Komagata Bridge from the deck of the Azuma Bridge. I'm standing on the sidewalk at the west pier, looking across the bridge deck. We can see the expansion joint between the pier and the center span. The asphalt pavement to our left is grey while the pavement on the right is red. It appears that the bridge deck stops at the expansion joint and the top of the pier was paved to become deck between the expansion joints.

The outer bridge rail is covered up so you can't see through it for some reason. There is also an inner rail to protect pedestrians from errant vehicles. Also the sidewalk curb gets deeper from the pier to midspan of the bridge.

We saw in yesterday's photo the big Asahi brewery on the northeast side of the bridge. In this photo we can see a big advertisement for Asahi beer on top of a building on the southwest side of the bridge.

Tokyo, Japan's Bridges: Komagata Bridge from the Deck of the Azuma Bridge by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.