Shichijo Ohashi Bridge

Shichijo Ohashi Bridge was built at the time of the Three Great Public Works of Kyoto that were underway in the late Meiji period: the No. 2 Lake Biwa Canal, the water supply system, and the creation of the tram system and, with it, the widening of roads.
Construction started in November 1911, and was completed in March 1913. It is the only remaining bridge of those that formed part of the Three Great Public Works.
The bridge was engineered by Keisaku Shibata, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, and designed by Matsunosuke Moriyama, an architect who graduated from the Department of Architecture at Tokyo Imperial University.
The main supports and the metal railings (no longer extant) featured Secession-style European designs: geometrical patterns that were popular at the time. It was one of the largest reinforced-concrete bridges in Japan.
In 1987, when the Keihan Railway was moved underground, the Kamogawa section of the Lake Biwa Canal was covered over, so one span of the bridge was removed. It is therefore now a five-span reinforced-concrete arch bridge (82 meters long, 18 meters wide). Furthermore, it has also been remodeled to feature railings with arrow wheel patterns based on the arrow wheel of Sanjusangen-do Temple.
It was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property on March 29, 2019.
Kyoto City