Toyohashi-bridge (Jah-jah bashi)
- Sawara area
place : Sawara-I, Katori City
A Bridge spanning river Onogawa, in front of the historic house of Inoh Tadataka.
Originally, this was made with a large gutter to send water for agricultural use from the east shore of river Onogawa to the opposite in the Edo period.
It is called, "Jah-jah" bridge by association from the sound of the dropping water that flows from the bridge.
The waterpower flows until 9:00AM-4:00PM all the year round every 30 minutes. If you can see the falling water, you might be lucky.
The bridge today is the one made for sightseeing, and water flows every 30 minutes. This is chosen to be The Sound scenery 100 of Japan".
The plus information
The nearby sights
- Historic street of Sawara(National landscape conservation area)
- Machi-gurumi Museum at-home
- Toyohashi-bridge (Jah-jah bashi)
- Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka
- Reference
- Sawara area
The sights a little way off
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Data
- Name
- Toyohashi-bridge (Jah-jah bashi)
- place
- 1900-1, Sawara-I, Katori City
- [admission] fee
- free
- Access
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By train : Getting off at Sawara Station, JR Narita-line. And 15 minutes on foot
By car : Higashi Kanto Expressway 10 minutes from Sawara-Katori exit
By High-way bus: Kanto Railways Green Bus from Tokyo Station for Hokota-station getting off at "Yasaka-mae".
Keisei bus, from Hamamatsu-cho, or Tokyo-station, by way of Sawara, for Choshi 20 minutes from "Sawara-eki Kitaguchi".
- Parking
- (Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka) 70 standard-sized car for free.
- Souvenir
- fish boiled in soy sauce, pickles, local sake, sweet potato cake, and Japanese cloth etc.
- Inquiries
- Katori City Sightseeing division; Tel.0478-50-1212