Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

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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 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, and at the time, was the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world, 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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Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway;Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, Awaji Tarumi Ward

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N 34.6162 °	E 135.0205 °

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明石海峡大橋

Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway;Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
655-0046 Awaji, Tarumi Ward
Japan
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