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.

Named bridges

Six of the eleven bridges are separately named, unlike some other long bridge complexes like the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (three bridges and one tunnel). The other five bridges are viaducts. The six named bridges are:

Related Topics:
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Tunnel - Viaduct

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• Shimotsui-Seto Bridge (???????) ?- A suspension bridge with a center span of 940 meters which connects Honshu with the island of Hitsuishijima. The 22nd largest suspension bridge in the world.
• Hitsuishijima (????) and Iwakurojima Bridges (????) ?- Two identical cable-stayed bridges with center spans of 420 meters.
• Yoshima Bridge (???) ?- A continuous truss bridge with five spans and a total length of 877 meters.
• Kita Bisan-Seto (???????) and Minami Bisan-Seto Bridges (???????; Minami Bisan-Seto ?hashi) ? Two suspension bridges with a common anchorage between them. With center spans of 990 and 1,118 meters respectively they rank as the 19th and 11th largest suspension bridges.