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Nagoya Port Drawbridge

Nagoya Port Drawbridge
名古屋港跳上橋
Nagoya Port Drawbridge
Nagoya Port Drawbridge
Coordinates 35°05′36.92″N 136°53′15.62″E / 35.0935889°N 136.8876722°E / 35.0935889; 136.8876722Coordinates: 35°05′36.92″N 136°53′15.62″E / 35.0935889°N 136.8876722°E / 35.0935889; 136.8876722
Carries Rail
Crosses Nagoya Port
Locale Nagoya
Owner Nagoya Port Authority
Heritage status Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
Heritage of Modern Industrialization
Characteristics
Total length 63.4 metres (208 ft)
Width 4.7 metres (15 ft)
Longest span 23.8 metres (78 ft)
Load limit 40 tonnes (44 short tons)
History
Designer Utarō Yamamoto
Opened June 20, 1927 (1927-06-20)
Closed March 1986 (1986-03)
References

The Nagoya Port Drawbridge (名古屋港跳上橋?, nagoyakō haneagebashi) is a drawbridge in Nagoya Port in Nagoya, Japan.

It was used on a rail line bound for Nagoya but has not been used since the rail line it belonged to was retired in March 1986, and now it remains up at all times. Completed in 1926; 91 years ago (1926), it is the oldest drawbridge in Japan still in existence.

Since 1999, it has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan of Japan, and it is also registered in Japan as an artifact of the Heritage of Modern Industrialization.



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