Without this bridge, you wouldn't know that trains once ran here. That's precisely what makes its significance stand out. Reflecting on the scenery railway workers must once have seen from the driver's cab….

I'm moved that it still stands so solidly even though so much time has passed since the line closed.

Visited on the way back after stopping at the Horokanai roadside station. It's about 500m from the roadside station. There's a fence in front of the iron bridge, so you need to take photos from the road side to get a good angle. There is space to park a car (not a parking lot) just after turning off the road onto the side road, near the foreground of the 2nd photo.

I visited because it's said to be a civil engineering heritage site. It's an iron bridge from a closed railway line, but the actual structure is magnificent. Worth seeing.

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Remains of a bridge on the closed JR Shinmei Line Space available to park a car

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