Kurima Ohashi

The Kurima Ohashi starts at the south-east end of Yonaha Maehama and runs 1,690 m west to Kurima. It opened on 13 March 1995 as a farm-road bridge, the longest of its kind in Japan at the time, and a pipeline under the deck still carries irrigation water and power from Miyako's underground dam to the cane and tobacco fields on Kurima. The raised navigation span gives 13.5 m of clearance.

From the deck you look down on the shallows off Maehama and along the 7 km of sand back toward the Tokyu resort. In winter the north wind hits from the right as you ride out, and Kurima's 9.0 km coastline is short enough to loop before lunch. The Ryugu-jo observatory and the Marukami soba shop are both a couple of minutes from the far end. Japanese Wikipedia notes that the triathlon bike course used the bridge until 2019.