admiring the beautiful arch! kintai (yamaguchi)

The bridge which supports the interchange with the town and the town, and the person and the person.As history is repeated, don’t you think? as for the bridge which has become the place of interest there is a large quantity on the Japanese country.

“The place of interest & the historic spot it went round and”, until now the stripe common coastal highway, closed up various bridges such as Ohashi Seto and Jun bridge even with the guide, but this time the brocade band bridge which to Iwakuni of Yamaguchi prefecture is introduced.

The vine bridge of the ancestor/founder valley (Tokushima prefecture), the monkey bridge (Yamanasi prefecture) with the brocade band bridge of the unique shape which is called the “Japanese three odd bridges” together on the bridge which does the unique shape where beautiful arch is connected, watching from wherever, is to be the bridge which becomes the picture.

The brocade band bridge where the arch whose five is beautiful is connected

Brocade band bridge (Yahoo! Map information), the east of Yamaguchi prefecture, the brocade river of Iwakuni city (system the wa) the bridge which catches.It is the bridge which has the long history where as for most first being applied 1673 of the Edo era you say.

The brocade river where the brocade band bridge is built is the biggest river under Yamaguchi prefecture, near the brocade band bridge river width reaches to also 200 meters.

this river is a bridge that was put many times in the past, there are circumstances that had been washed away by the flooding of bridges nishikigawa, when lord of iwakuni clan yoshimi yoshikawa wide (hiroyoshi kikkawa) by order of the, with reference to that bridge to the west lake in china, kintai with the arched structure was applied now.

but original kintai, 1the hardship of erosion in the flood of nishikigawa sadly after years. superimposed improved thorough pursuit of the cause of erosion at this time2kintai of the second generation is, 1950until it has really carried away by the great flood caused by typhoons of the year276of years, withstand the torrent of human nishikigawai serve as a bridge between.

and2from erosion of the second generation kintai3after year3kintai eye and the die was applied again. from the earliest pain in the only wooden bridge just, since the beginning of the heisei3pieces of annual change&reinforcement work is done, 2004successfully completed in the year. as the tourist center of existence and still old iwakuni, daylot of tourists are visiting.

so let’s cross the kintai. the bridge started to cross to pay the fee at the entrance of the bridge input. 5sense across the arch bridge is a series of, it is similar to cross the arched bridge to the shrine is well. the size of the width of the river of nishikigawa you can see again.

the way across the bridge, look forward to the mountain castle of his right hand slightly elevated, iwakuni castle tower. gil incense park lies ahead across the bridge (antagonist park) you can go to iwakuni castle ropeway up to the summit in iwakuni castle located in the.

round-trip charge and ropeway bridge input kintai, because there was also discounted tickets to the admission of iwakuni castle set, if you go to iwakuni castle, it is better to use a discount ticket.

gil is also incense in the park, there are also views of the white snake rare plants found only in iwakuni. please try to stop by all means if you have time.

the following, let’s guide you to where you can see panoramic kintai. next page followed by.

panoramic view from the castle tower kintai iwakuni castle

seen in the panoramic location kintai, it is the tower of iwakuni castle was able to see him from kintai.

station in the park from the foot of incense gil was a trail maintenance kyokan of mr. yoshikawa clan ruled the iwakuni, riding the ropeway up to the summit station iwakuni castle, only3air-minute walk. walk from the summit station5iwakuni castle is minutes away.

slightly elevated on a hill iwakuni castle is, first lord of iwakuni clan yoshikawa large house1608castle was built by the year. however, based on the decree of the edo shogunate ikkokuichijo, slightly from the fortification7has a historical fact that was demolished in the year.

it has been restored iwakuni castle1962the year. the initial position and location has changed a bit, has been restored on was moved to position clearly visible from the kintai.

inside there is a lot of exhibitions, outlook and climb on the top floor there is a space. iwakuni city is, of course, you can see through a small island in the seto inland sea akinada-.

overlooking the, nishikigawa across the city and increase the, can be seen in the panoramic kintai just came across. looking at the number of the bridge over to nishikigawa, kintai people living in iwakuniyou seem to have or know how to have helped the traffic of. i want to view indefinitely, it is such scenery.

delicacy! iwakuni sushi

i came so much trouble to iwakuni, i want to eat some delicious.

speaking of specialty cuisine and sushi iwakuni iwakuni. i have been to sushi sushi briefly press the, contains a variety of equipment have, that food and always will be issued in iwakuni auspicious seat. so that in the shop and eat around kintai, it is recommended that you try all means to eat if given the chance.

japan is one of three odd bridge, although we have introduced the kintai, what do you think. iwakuni is located at the eastern end so that most of yamaguchi prefecture, hiroshima prefecture in the neighboring world heritage miyajima from1you can go in a little over time. to realize the dreadfulness of the wisdom of the ancients, please try to go to kintai.

approach to kintai

• map: Yahoo! map information
• the case of public transportation

  from hiroshima, white city station to station by bus bound for white city geiyo. from white city stationJRon the train to iwakuni san’yosen.
  kintai bus stop by bus from the station in iwakuni iwakuni. bus to the kintai is kintai bus island bus cultivation half your bus no. ichisuke service has been mixed with fun, such as bus.

  sanyo shinkansen shin iwakuni station. kintai bus stop by bus from the station in iwakuni iwakuni new. bus to the kintai is kintai bus island bus cultivation half your bus service has been mixed with fun, such as bus.

  connecting tokyo station and hagi, yamaguchi no. express hagi (bochokotsu bus) stop in iwakuni station is.
  destination from iwakuni stationis the same as the root of the.

• if the car
  sanyo to the road through the interchange kawachi from hiroshima. national highway through a road from the interchange iwakuni iwakuni hiroshima2to enter the line, to kintai.
  there is parking around kintai.

(related sites)

• tourist destinations of iwakuni (iwakuni city tourist association)
• kintai (iwakuni tourism division)
• iwakuni castle (iwakuni tourism division)

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