bridges

Two panniers and a bag (containing a pair of shoes) on wet ground in front of a fence and gate blocking entry to a long wide steel and concrete footbridge with a puddle covering its near end.

Open gate over a puddle reading (in English translation) “Wild Boars / Preventive Fencing / This barrier has been erected to prevent the spread of swine cholera from wild boars / Your cooperation is appreciated / Wild boars may enter through this barrier, so please shut the gate when it is opened” (followed by contact phone numbers)

Bicycle with front and rear panniers parked at the rusted steel railing of a footbridge, with two lanes of a four-lane freeway visible below.

Bicycle with front and rear panniers on a bridge in the foreground, with the full span of the bridge stretching into forest shadow behind. Near the bicuycle, some scruffy weeds are growing in the thin layer of dirt accumulated on the bridge.

A view down the right edge of a wet steel-trussed bridge span over a river. The river bends sharply away from the camera after passing under the bridge, running in parallel with it into the distance. The far end of the river is obscured by a layer of mist lying in the gorge.

View down a four-lane expressway from the vantage point of a footbridge spanning it, with its handrail in the foreground. In the far distance, another bridge over the expressway is visible.

A loaded cargo bike parked at a painted steel railing, overlooking the view of a river winding into the distance between wooded banks, with a small village visible very far down at a distant bend in the river.

A loaded cargo bicycle parked at a bridge over an earthen canal with trees and dried grass on the banks. A sign on a guardrail behind the bike is partly obscured by black spray paint over the school name, but seems to read “Miyoshi North District County Elementary School/Gathering Point/Departure Time 7:40” (三好町立北部小学校・集合場所・出発時間７時４０分). Not sure what the reason for the splotch of black paint is, but the sign must be at least 13 years old, since Miyoshi County became Miyoshi City in 2010.

A narrow paved walkway lying to the left of two lanes of traffic stretches into the distance. To the right of the carriageway stand a series of boxes, each two stories in height, which are (I think) control towers for equipment used to control the flow of water across the dam below.