Tengenji Bridge, Road bridge in Hiroo, Japan
Tengenji Bridge carries Gaien-nishi-dori over the Shibuya River in Hiroo 5-chome, Shibuya. A few metres downstream, the Shibuya and Kogai rivers meet, and from there the stream is the Furukawa. The Kogai, now culverted, emerges just east of the Tengenji Bridge intersection and runs alongside the bridge.
In 1863 the bridge crossed the Kogaigawa, a tributary of the Shibuya River; the Kogaigawa now runs in a culvert whose outlet is just east of the Tengenji Bridge intersection. Trams reached the bridge in 1911 and 1913, and the line over the bridge was abolished in 1969. The surrounding area was damaged by US air raids around 1945.
The name comes from the nearby Tamonzan Tengenji temple, northeast of the Tengenji Bridge intersection. Until the Kogai River was culverted, the name referred to the bridge over that tributary; its culvert outlet now sits just east of the intersection, next to the Shibuya River bridge.
The bridge welcomes both cars and pedestrians with equal ease and provides straightforward crossing for most people. Visitors can cross at any time of day without facing restrictions or obstacles.
The bridge spans the Shibuya River a few metres upstream of where the Kogai River joins it; below that confluence the water is called the Furukawa. The boundary between Shibuya and Minato wards runs between Tengenji Bridge and the Ryogoku Bridge downstream.
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