On the way to the strawberry picking place, I crossed the world's longest suspended bridge. it's lenght is 1991 meters and connects the city of Kobe on the Mainland of Japan with the Island of Awaji. It is really an impressive bridge. I took the picture above myself and stiched it togheter, but a better view is give by the aerial picture below...
During the earthquake of Kobe in 1995 the lenght of the bridge had to be adjusted of 1 meter because the two towers moved.To note is that this bridge had been constructed to support 150-kilometer-distant, 8.5-Richter-magnitude earthquakes. The one in kobe in 1995 was of 7.2 magnitude at 16 km that's the reason it caused so much damage (usually earthquakes are over 60 km in depth). (But i will tell you more on earthquakes on another post, to tell you about my visit at the earthquake musem of some time ago...)
The road has 6 lanes, and the toll cost to cross the bridge is about 2300 yen (27 Swiss Francs). It was opened in 1998 after 10 years (!!) of construction work... nice job! ;)
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