Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
By Henry Petroski
Technology meets culture in the world's longest span
This Article From Issue
May-June 2009
Volume 97, Number 3
Page 192
DOI: 10.1511/2009.78.192
In anticipation of my first visit to Japan, my host asked me what places I might wish to see on days that I was not lecturing. The first thing that came to mind was the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which is located near the city of Kobe. The main span of this suspension bridge is currently the longest in the world.
Photograph courtesy of the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited.
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