The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a suspension bridge linking the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu with Iwaya on Awaji Island, carrying the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway across the Akashi Strait. Completed in 1998, it held the record for the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world, at 1,991 meters, until it was surpassed by the Canakkale Bridge in Turkey in 2022.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, located there.
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1. Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation- Wikipedia "Akashi Kaikyo Bridge" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
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The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a suspension bridge linking the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu with Iwaya on Awaji Island, carrying the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway across the Akashi Strait. Completed in 1998, it held the record for the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world, at 1,991 meters, until it was surpassed by the Canakkale Bridge in Turkey in 2022.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1998)
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Japanese: 明石海峡大橋, Hepburn: Akashi Kaikyō Ōhashi) is a suspension bridge that links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu and Iwaya, Awaji on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait (Akashi Kaikyō in Japanese). It was completed in 1998, and at the time, was the longest central span of any su
View the Source 2. Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Suspension bridge)
Wikidata item Q184213, instance of (P31): suspension bridge
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 282.8
Wikidata item Q184213, property P2048 (height): 282.8 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Tarumi-ku, Japan
Wikidata item Q184213, property P131/P17 (location): Tarumi-ku, Japan
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