Centrair Ohashi, Road bridge in Tokoname, Japan.
Centrair Ohashi is a road bridge in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, linking the artificial island of Chubu Centrair International Airport to the mainland across Ise Bay. It carries both road traffic and railway tracks side by side on separate parallel decks.
The bridge opened in 2005 alongside the airport it was built to serve, forming the first fixed link to the newly constructed artificial island. Both the island and the crossing were built from scratch as part of the same large infrastructure project.
The bridge serves as a practical gateway for the Chubu region, carrying both road and rail traffic to the airport. For travelers, it marks the transition from the mainland to the isolated airport island.
The bridge is a toll road used mainly by airport traffic, so extra time is worth allowing during busy travel periods. Visitors arriving by train cross on the same structure but on a separate rail deck, without needing to use the road lanes.
The two parallel structures of the bridge were built separately to reduce overall construction time, allowing work on both directions to progress at once. This approach is unusual for a crossing of this size and was driven by the tight deadline to open alongside the airport.
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