Tatara Bridge

34.259444444444133.06416666667Koordinaten: 34 ° 15 ' 34 "N, 133 ° 3' 51" E

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Seto Inland Sea

The Tatara Bridge (Japanese多 々 罗 大桥, Tatara Ōhashi ) is one with nine other bridges of the 60 km long Nishiseto highway that connects many small islands of the Hiroshima Prefecture on Honshu with Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku.

The bridge was completed in 1999. It is a cable-stayed bridge, which is similar with its harp -shaped tuft arrangement of the Normandy bridge over the Seine estuary. It has four tracks on which may be driven up to 70 km / h and on the edge of a footpath.

The pylons have a height of 220 m, it separate under the roadway two parts that run over it back together, after which they are still running for about a third of the total height in parallel. Here the steel cables go off. In this section there are only two narrow cross- connections so that the pylons get a very elegant form.

The span lengths are 270, 890 and 320 meters long, the bridge thus has a total length of 1480 meters. It is thus one of the largest cable-stayed bridges.

East of the highway Nishiseto there with Seto Ōhashi for motor vehicles and railway between Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture as well as the Kobe - Awaji - Naruto Expressway two other bridge connections between Honshu and Shikoku.