Tokyo · Landmarks

Best Bridge in Tokyo

28 places, each checked by our team.

• Aioi Bridge 相生橋Tsukuda / Etchujima — A blue truss bridge linking Tsukudajima to Etchujima, with a tiny island park in the middle of the river and views of the Okawabata towers.
• Asakusabashi Bridge 浅草橋Asakusabashi — The Kanda River bridge on Edo-dori where the Asakusa gate of Edo Castle once stood, rebuilt in 1930 and lined with yakatabune boats below.
• Benkei Bridge 弁慶橋Akasaka / Kioicho — A wooden-railed bridge with Edo-style giboshi finials over the old castle moat of Benkeibori, beside Akasaka and the Tokyo Garden Terrace towers.
• Chuo Ohashi Bridge 中央大橋Shinkawa / Tsukuda — A 1993 cable-stayed bridge designed with French input, its towers shaped like samurai helmets and a bronze statue by Ossip Zadkine gifted by Paris.
• Fureai Bridge ふれあい橋（旧中川）Hirai / Kameido — Pedestrian steel arch bridge over the Kyu-Nakagawa River, a local favourite for photos of Tokyo Skytree reflected in the water.
• Kachidoki-bashi Bridge 勝鬨橋Tsukiji / Kachidoki — A 1940 double-leaf drawbridge, once the largest in Asia, whose twin arches and machinery towers light up at night in front of the Kachidoki skyline.
• Kiyosu-bashi Bridge 清洲橋Nihonbashi / Kiyosumi — An elegant 1928 suspension bridge over the Sumida, modelled on a bridge in Cologne, lit in soft blue at night with Skytree visible upriver.
• Komagata Bridge 駒形橋Asakusa — A 1927 arch bridge right by Asakusa, Japan's first full-scale steel half-through arch with a graceful central arch, lit up at night.
• Kototoi Bridge 言問橋Asakusa / Mukojima — A bold, straight-lined 1928 Gerber girder bridge between Asakusa and Mukojima, named after a classical poem and flanked by the cherry trees of…
• Manseibashi Bridge 万世橋Akihabara / Kanda — The Kanda River bridge at the southern gateway to Akihabara, with granite arches and views of the red-brick railway viaduct of the old Manseibashi…
• Minami-Takahashi Bridge 南高橋Shinkawa / Minato — Tokyo's oldest surviving steel truss road bridge in use, made in 1932 from a reused section of the Meiji-era Ryogoku Bridge.
• Nihonbashi Bridge 日本橋Nihonbashi — The 1911 stone bridge at the heart of Edo, guarded by bronze winged kirin and lions, and the official zero-kilometre point for Japan's national…
• Rainbow Bridge レインボーブリッジShibaura / Odaiba — The white 798 m suspension bridge linking central Tokyo to Odaiba, walkable on free promenades on both sides, and lit in a twinkling white (or…
• Ryogoku Bridge 両国橋Ryogoku — The bridge that gave Ryogoku its name: first built in 1659 between two provinces, now a 1932 Gerber bridge decorated with sumo and fireworks motifs.
• Senju Ohashi Bridge 千住大橋Senju — The first bridge ever built across the Sumida River (1594), still carrying the old Nikko and Oshu highways north out of Edo on a 1927 steel…
• Shin-Ohashi Bridge 新大橋Hamacho / Morishita — A 1977 cable-stayed bridge on the site of Edo's third Sumida bridge, the one Hiroshige painted in his famous "Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi".
• Shirahige Bridge 白鬚橋Hashiba / Tsutsumi-dori — A graceful 1931 braced-rib tied-arch bridge on Meiji-dori, built where the Hashiba ferry once carried travellers across the Sumida.
• Shoheibashi Bridge 昌平橋Kanda / Akihabara — A 1923 reinforced-concrete arch bridge on the Kanda River, named in 1691 after Confucius's birthplace when the shogun built Yushima Seido nearby.
• Sumidagawa Ohashi Bridge 隅田川大橋Hakozaki / Saga — The Sumida's only double-decker bridge, with an expressway on top and a road and footpath underneath, offering a high, open view down toward Eitai…
• Tamagawa Sky Bridge 多摩川スカイブリッジHaneda / Tonomachi — The sleek 2022 bridge that finally linked Haneda to Kawasaki across the Tama River, with a wide footpath where you can walk between Tokyo and…
• Tokiwabashi Stone Bridge 常磐橋Otemachi / Nihonbashi — A twin-arch stone bridge from 1877 over the Nihonbashi River, built from the stones of an Edo Castle gate and reopened in 2021 after restoration.
• Tokyo Gate Bridge 東京ゲートブリッジWakasu — Tokyo Bay's "dinosaur bridge", a 2012 steel truss whose two humps look like dinosaurs facing each other, with a walkable sightseeing promenade on top.
• Toyomi Bridge 豊海橋Shinkawa / Hakozaki — A small 1927 Vierendeel bridge at the mouth of the Nihonbashi River, shaped like a ladder laid on its side and lit up white-orange at night.
• Tsukiji Ohashi Bridge 築地大橋Tsukiji / Kachidoki — The newest and lowest bridge on the Sumida (2018), a white twin arch with outward-leaning ribs that links the old Tsukiji market site with Kachidoki.
• Tsukuda Ohashi Bridge 佃大橋Tsukuda / Akashicho — The first new Sumida bridge after the war, opened in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics on the site of the 320-year-old Tsukuda ferry.
• Umaya Bridge 厩橋Kuramae — A three-arch 1929 bridge in Kuramae decorated with horse motifs, a nod to the shogunate's stables that once stood on the west bank.
• Yanagibashi Bridge 柳橋Yanagibashi — A green 1929 tied-arch bridge at the mouth of the Kanda River, surrounded by moored yakatabune boats in the old Yanagibashi geisha quarter.
• Yume no Ohashi Bridge 夢の大橋Odaiba / Ariake — Japan's widest pedestrian bridge (60 m), an Odaiba promenade that held the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cauldron and is lit up at night.