Curly Bridge Over the Seto Inland Sea
Thursday, 27th July 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Check out this fantastic curly bridge, which connects mainland Honshū to one of the tiny islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. It looks a bit like a tiny Lotus Bridge, but instead of allowing traffic to swap sides of the road, I believe this one is designed to join the higher mainland with the lower down island.
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Or maybe if they’re the same height (I mean, sea-level is sea-level whether island or mainland) then its just due to the fact that there wasn’t room for long straight ramps on land to get the bridge up to a reasonable height that ships could pass underneath, so instead they made them curly. Neat design for sure.
Either way, looks most like TrackMania than real world – or for the more aged, Scalextrix
Cool bridge. The Japanese rule. Here are some ground photos. http://static.flickr.com/43/81990931_005eb45d51_m.jpg http://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/KAN6/photo/ondo_no_seto/ondo_no_seto2.jpg http://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/KAN6/photo/ondo_no_seto_old/ondo_no_seto.jpg They even have it on a stamp http://yushu.or.jp/english/e_sdate/98jpn/pre98/98jul17f2.html
Also, just north of the bridge is a big and impressive ship and submarine building complex. View Placemark Here are some ground photos. http://knp.sanyokure.com/kure-2e.html (you’ll have to scroll down to the base photos.)
After seeing Gesh’s pictures, I agree with jdp.
Can anyone find where they filmed MXC (aka Takeshi’s Castle)? http://www.slate.com/id/2103427/ Love that show!!
The bridge is level, and both sides have long ramps so I’d say definitly just a high bridge for ships.
Sea level is sea level? Don’t tell Al Gore.
No, I think that the moon is red.
To WRA: “Takeshi’s Castle” has Filmed at Midoriyama Studio City in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. You can find it here. As the castle was a temporary set, and the program was filmed about 20 years ago, castle does not remains any longer.
http://www.ihi.co.jp/bridge/ihi_hp2006/sekoujisseki/kokunai/ondo/ondo.html http://library.jsce.or.jp/jscelib/committee/2003/tajima/B208.jpg
This bridge is”Ondo Ohashi”,builded by Japan Highway Public Co. in 1961.