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Konohana Bridge

bridge, Osaka, Japan

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In bridge: Ōsaka Harbour
The Konohana suspension bridge carries a four-lane highway on a slender, steel box-beam deck only 3 metres (10 feet) deep. The bridge is self-anchored—that is, the deck has been put into horizontal compression, like that on a cable-stayed bridge, so that there is no force of…
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