akashi kaykyo Bridge 

The bridge is located in Akashi Kaikyo in the Akashi Strait between the City of Kobe and Awaji Island, The bridge is part of a National Network of Roads What Connect to the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Awaji and helps in stimulating economic growth Cultural exchange and the Japanese of the West Country.
What is most impressive is the size of the bridge.

The Akashi Strait is 4 km wide at the bridge site with 100 meters of depth. The Akashi Bridge is one of the busiest roads of the sea in the world and over a thousand ships pass beneath it every day. In addition, the bridge is in a typhoon region where the winds can reach speeds of 290 km / ha construction is inicou in 1988, and officially opened to the public in 1998, were used 181 thousand tons of steel and 1.4 million meters cubic concrete. Steel cords used correspond to seven times around the globe. During the ten years of construction, there has never been a fatal accident in Akashi-Kaikyo.

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