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Japan
001-000109, 001-00109, 2003, Asia, Japan, Kanto region, Odaiba, Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo prefecture, artificial, artificial island, beach, bridge, entertainment, exterior, global view, island, leisure, nobody, outdoor, people, tokyo
Tokyo Rainbow Bridge
Tadayoshi Nakamura
14 September 03
Jean-Philippe Dain
Tokyo prefecture
Tokyo
JPN
The Rainbow Bridge from Odaiba. Odaiba was originally constructed in 1851 by the Tokugawa shogunate as a series of 6 fortresses in order to protect Tokyo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships, which had arrived in the same year. Daiba in Japanese refers to the cannon batteries placed on the islands, the honorific o sufficing to indicate that this is by far Japan's best-known site.
The Rainbow Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Tokyo Port, located on the northernmost part of Tokyo Bay, connecting the Shibaura Wharf and the new waterfront development area, known as Odaiba in Minato-ku ward, Tokyo.
This new symbol of the bayside Tokyo, completed in 1993, is 570m (1870 ft.) in length and carries three lines of transportations; Metropolitan Expressway No. 11 Odaiba Route on the upper deck, Route 357, also known as "Rinkou Douro" (Portside Avenue) and the Yurikamome New Transit on the lower deck.