Nipponbashi Bridge

Nipponbashi Bridge carries Sakaisuji, the Kishu Kaido, across the Dotonbori, and is in Chuo Ward, Osaka. In the Edo period the street of Nipponbashi was called Nagamachi and was a post town of long standing. There was a boat landing at the bridgehead, and the spot was busy as a junction of water and land transport. On the west side of the south end, at the corner turning into Dotonbori where foot traffic was heaviest, the shogunate set up a kosatsuba, a board for official notices that answered to today's government gazette board. At the time it is said to have been a wooden bridge about 40 m long and 7 m wide. After several rounds of repair from the Meiji era on, it was rebuilt in Showa 44 (1969) along with the construction of the subway, and stands so today. The main posts of the old bridge remain at the bridgehead. The Nipponbashi area was a busy second-hand bookshop district in the Meiji era, and after the war shops appeared selling parts and tools for home-built radios, which set it on the way to becoming the electronics district known today as Den Den Town.

Translated from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).

Osaka Prefecture's list of designated cultural properties names this place as the owner of 1. Objects are not necessarily on view.

大阪府 文化財一覧 (CC BY 4.0), current at 2024-05-01. Joined by owner name; long names are shortened to the buildings or the object.