Tatara Bridge
Coordinates: 34 ° 15 ′ 34 ″ N , 133 ° 3 ′ 51 ″ E
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| Official name | 多 々 羅 大橋 | |
| Crossing of | Tatara Strait, Seto Inland Sea | |
| place | Onomichi and Imabari | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 1480 meters | |
| completion | 1999 | |
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The Tatara Bridge ( Japanese 多 々 羅 大橋 , Tatara Ōhashi ) crosses the Tatara Strait ( 多 々 羅 海峡 , Tatara-kaikyō ) between the island of Ikuchi (or its Tatara cape, 多 々 羅 岬 , Tatara-misaki ) in the municipality of Onomichi , prefecture Hiroshima and Ōmi Island in Imabari Township , Ehime Prefecture . It belongs with nine other bridges to the 60 km long Nishiseto highway , which connects the two prefectures and the two main Japanese islands of Honshū and Shikoku via many small islands .
The bridge was completed in 1999. It is a cable-stayed bridge , which with its harp-shaped cluster arrangement is similar to the Normandy bridge over the Seine estuary. It has four lanes, which can be driven at speeds of up to 70 km / h, and a footpath at the edge.
The pylons have a height of 220 m, two parts separate under the carriageway, which run together again above, whereupon they run parallel to each other for about a third of the total height. This is where the steel cables come off. There are only two narrow cross connections on this section, so that the pylons have a very elegant shape.
The field widths are 270, 890 and 320 meters long, the bridge thus has a total length of 1480 meters. This makes it one of the world's largest cable-stayed bridges.
To the east of the Nishiseto Highway, there are Seto-Ōhashi for motor vehicles and railways between Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture and the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Highway, two other bridges between Honshū and Shikoku.
