Six lanes of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway and four emergency lanes
Crosses
Akashi Strait[1]
Locale
Awaji Island and Kobe[1]
Other name(s)
Pearl Bridge[2]
Maintained by
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited (JB Honshi Kōsoku)
Characteristics
Design
Suspension bridge[1]
Total length
3,911 metres (12,831 ft)
Height
282.8 metres (928 ft) (pylons)[1]
Longest span
1,991 metres (6,532 ft)[1]
Clearance below
65.72 metres (215.6 ft)
History
Designer
Satoshi Kashima
Construction start
1988[1]
Construction end
1998[1]
Opened
April 5, 1998
Statistics
Toll
¥2,300
Location
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Japanese: 明石海峡大橋, Hepburn: Akashi Kaikyō Ōhashi) is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu to Iwaya, Awaji [ja] on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait (Akashi Kaikyō in Japanese). It was completed in 1998,[1] and at the time, was the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world,[3] at 1,991 metres (6,532 ft). Currently, it is the second-longest, behind the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that was opened in March 2022.
It is one of the key links of the Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project, which created three routes across the Inland Sea.
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Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway and four emergency lanes