Tokyo Gate Bridge
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The is a truss bridge under construction across the Tokyo Bay
in Kōtō, Tokyo
, Japan. It is scheduled to open during fiscal 2011.
The two sides were joined with the installation of the central span section on 27 February 2011.
Tokyo Bay
is a bay in the southern Kantō region of Japan. Its old name was .-Geography:Tokyo Bay is surrounded by the Bōsō Peninsula to the east and the Miura Peninsula to the west. In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is the area north of the straight line formed by the on the Miura Peninsula on one end and on...
in Kōtō, Tokyo
Koto, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 442,271 and a population density of 11,070 persons per km². The total area is 39.48 km². The ward refers to itself as Kōtō City in English....
, Japan. It is scheduled to open during fiscal 2011.
History
The name "Tokyo Gate Bridge" was officially announced on 15 November 2010.The two sides were joined with the installation of the central span section on 27 February 2011.