Yokohama’s Bridges (Japan post 4 of 6)

Yokohama is about 30 miles south of Tokyo and is Japans' second largest city. The two cities, the nations' largest, were connected by one freeway until the late 1980s. The government could not figure out where to put a reliever route, so in true Japanese fashion, they built one in the coolest way possible - my making a bunch of islands connected by cable stayed bridges, tunnels, and 10-story high [...]