Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge

Yokohama Bay Bridge--gateway to the Port of Yokohama for ships sailing in from Tokyo Bay--is a cable-stayed bridge with an 860-meter/2,820-foot span that crosses Tokyo Bay allowing vehicular traffic to bypass congestion on the bayshore route for quicker access to Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture.

Completed in September 1989, the bridge was high enough to accommodate one of the world’s largest ships at that time—the Queen Elizabeth 2. Twenty years later, mega cruise ships became too tall to pass under the bridge and had to dock farther away from the central piers of Yokohama.