an area located on the small Awaji island part of the Seto Inland Sea. Started in 1988, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge held the record for longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world for ...

This giant suspension bridge links the city of Kobe on the island of Honshu with Iwaya on Awaji Island. Construction started in 1988 and didn’t finish until ten years later, in 1998. It’s part ...