Yodogawa Bridge, Railway bridge in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Japan.
Yodogawa Bridge is a railway bridge in Osaka that crosses the Yodo River, connecting Higashiyodogawa-ku and Miyakojima Ward on two tracks. The structure is a steel frame design that runs nearly the full width of the river.
The Ministry of Railways built the bridge in 1929 for the Jōtō freight line, with a double-track width but only one track laid on the downstream side. The spare upstream half carried the wooden Akagawa temporary footbridge, an Osaka city road later promoted to a prefectural cycle route, until it closed on 31 October 2013. Doubling work then laid new track on the footbridge side before relaying the old track, and passenger service on the Osaka Higashi Line began on 16 March 2019.
Locals call the bridge Akagawa Tekkyō, and it appears in the NHK morning dramas Yanccha Kure and Manten as well as a GARNET CROW music video. Until 31 October 2013 a wooden walkway, the Akagawa Karibashi, ran along the upstream side, letting residents cross on foot beside the trains.
The riverbanks on both sides of the bridge offer open views of the crossing and are easy to walk along. The bridge itself is an active railway line and is not open to the public, so observation is done from the ground level near the water.
The bridge kept its wartime scars: some piers still show bullet marks from P-51 Mustang strafing, and near the abutments a bomb crater from a B-29 raid survives as a pond, the so-called bomb pond, now part of a river backwater. The steel was once red-brown rust-proofing paint; it is now pale white.
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