Kachidokibashi (Important Cultural Property)

Kachidokibashi is an electric movable bridge where about 80m left and right in the center of the 246m total length jumps 70 degrees upwards. When it was completed in 1940, it opened 50 times a day for 20 minutes and passed through a large ship. Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge (1964) was completed upstream of the Sumida River, and has not been opened since November 1970 due to a decrease in the number of sailing ships and an increase in traffic volume. Kachidokibashi is lit up all year round from sunset to around 22:00. The night bridge illuminated by the green lights shows its brilliance on the surface of the river, and has a special taste as the bridge seen during the day.

Kachidokibashi was built using the state-of-the-art technology at the time as Japan's largest bounce bridge, and since it has high value in the history of Japanese bridge technology, along with Kiyosu Bridge and Eitai Bridge over the Sumida River, it was designated as a national important cultural property in 2007.