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Tokyo Gate Bridge 東京ゲートブリッジ | |
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Coordinates | 35°36′41″N 139°49′38″E / 35.61139°N 139.82722°E |
Carries | Road traffic (4 lanes), pedestrians |
Crosses | Tokyo Bay |
Locale | Kōtō City (Tokyo, Japan), between Chubo and Wakasu artificial islands) |
Characteristics | |
Design | cantilever bridge |
Total length | 2,618 metres (8,589 ft) including approaches |
Width | 21 metres (69 ft) |
Height | 87.8 metres (288 ft) |
Longest span | 440 metres (1,440 ft) |
No. of spans | 3 |
Clearance below | 54.6 metres (179 ft) |
History | |
Construction start | 2002 |
Construction end | 2011 |
Opened | 2012 |
Statistics | |
Toll | None |
Location | |
Tokyo Gate Bridge (東京ゲートブリッジ, Tōkyō Gēto Burijji) is a truss cantilever bridge across Tokyo Bay in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It opened on 12 February 2012[1][2] with an estimated total construction cost of ¥113,000,000,000 (equivalent to ¥119,120,400,000 in 2019) for the Stage II section of highway including the bridge.[3] it is similar to those as Forth Bridge in the UK and Quebec Bridge in Canada and Queensboro Bridge in the United States.