響橋, Transportation bridge in Kanagawa, Japan.
Hibiki Bridge is a reinforced-concrete arch bridge on Yokohama city road 85 (Suidō-dō) in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, carrying the road over National Route 1 (Dai-ni Keihin). Its arch rises about 13 m and the bridge is 48 m long; the arch shape has earned it the nickname "Megane-bashi" (spectacles bridge). It was completed in 1941, designed by Kenji Imai with the Yokohama civil engineering office of the Ministry of the Interior.
Hibiki Bridge was completed in 1941, designed by Kenji Imai with the Yokohama office of the Ministry of Interior's New Keihin Highway project; the working design was by Masaharu Watanabe. It was planned as the turning point of the marathon course for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, which were cancelled, and was built to serve as a landmark over the Second Keihin Highway. It was named a Yokohama City historic building in 2001 and an Engineering Heritage selection of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers in 2016.
The name comes from the echo heard under the concrete arch when traffic passes on National Route 1 below, not from any water. The bridge appears in Frank Nagai's song "Yogiri no Daini Kokudo", in the 1968 Nikkatsu film "Musume no Kisetsu" and in the 1975 Shochiku comedy "Seigi da! Mikata da! Zen'in Shugo!!", as well as in Osamu Tezuka's manga "Bampire".
Hibiki Bridge carries the Yokohama city road 85 (Suidō-dōri) over National Route 1, the Dai-ni Keihin, at the top of a long slope. Buses from Tsurumi Station's west exit stop at Nihongi or Terao on the bridge itself; city buses from the east exit and Kawasaki Station's west exit stop at Higashi-Terao Rikkyō-shita beneath it. The arch rises about 13 m above the road passing underneath.
The bridge was planned as the turning point of the marathon course for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, which were cancelled, and was built to serve as a landmark on the Second Keihin highway. Its concrete arch, about 13 metres high, also appears in the final scene of the 1968 Nikkatsu film Musume no Kisetsu and in Tezuka Osamu's manga Bampire.
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