Great Seto Bridge

The Great Seto Bridge (Japanese: ????, also known as the Seto-Ohashi Bridge or the Seto-Chuo Expressway) is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto inland sea. Built over the period 1978 - 1988, it is one of the three routes of the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshu and Shikokuislands. At 13.1 km long, it ranks as the world's longest two-tiered bridge system.

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Bridge - Okayama - Kagawa - Japan - Seto inland sea - 1978 - 1988 - Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project - Honshu - Shikoku

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Crossing the bridge takes about 20 minutes by car or train. The ferry crossing before the bridge was built took about an hour. The toll for ordinary motor vehicles is 4,850 Yen.

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Motor vehicle - Yen

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The bridges carry two lanes of highway traffic in each direction on the upper deck and one railway track in each direction on the lower deck. The lower deck was designed to accommodate an additional Shinkansen rail line in each direction.

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Lane - Traffic - Railway - Shinkansen

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