Nirai-Kanai Bridge.
Curved twin-span highway bridge dropping eighty meters toward the coast, framing a sweeping Pacific view.
The Nirai-Kanai Bridge guide explains how Okinawa Prefectural Route 86 drops eighty meters in under seven hundred to reach the coast, a slope so steep that planners split the descent into two separate structures rather than one straight span. It follows the Nirai Bridge curving down from the Chinen highlands and the Kanai Bridge that picks up the descent to sea level at Yoshitomi, meeting at a roadside monument between them. The crossing opened to traffic in 2002 and takes its name from Nirai Kanai, the paradise Okinawans have long said lies beyond the sea past Kudaka Island, visible from the road ahead.
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