Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Kaiun Bridge across the Sabaishi River (4)

August 2007 (37.3918° 138.5806°) Kaiun Bridge

A view of the south abutment on the Kaiun Bridge. The ends of bridges are often decorated in Japan, in this case with plinths supporting panels showing peach orchards and wheat fields.

Note how much the ground has settled around this bridge. In the photo below, we can see that the abutment did not completely escape some damage. The big elastomeric bearings are distorted due to the abutment being pushed forward by lateral spreading of the surrounding soil.

Niigata, Japan's Bridges: Kaiun Bridge across the Sabaishi River (4) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.