Tsunoshima Bridge | Japan's longest toll-free Bridge

Japan's longest toll-free bridge, linking the island of Tsunoshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture with Honshu, was built in 2000. Since then, a longer bridge has been built in Okinawa. The Tsunoshima Bridge, built at a cost of 14.9 billion yen, which works out at about 150,000 USD per inhabitant, spans 1.78 kilometres, 90 metres longer than the Kuruma Bridge in Okinawa, the longest toll-free road bridge in Japan until now. Tsunoshima, with a population of 996, is a small, 4.1-square-km island off the coast of Hohoku, a fishing town in western Yamaguchi.

As Tsunoshima is located within the Chomon Kaigan national park, the government has adopted a low-hanging structure for the bridge in order to make it less obstructive to the surrounding scenery, officials said.

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