Alhamdulillah...setelah tertangguh beberapa kali...akhirnya tercapai juga hasrat kami untuk menjejakkan kaki ke Hiroshima...dalam perjalanan ke Hiroshima, kami singgah di Iwakuni City untuk melihat dan bergambar di Kintai Bridge... :->
Iwakuni 岩国
40km down the coast of Hiroshima Bay from Hiroshima, the small town of Iwakuni has a double face. It is an old castle town, with its samurai quarters and one of Japan's most famous traditional bridge. And on the other side, it is also one of the two US Marines bases on the Japanese mainland.
The Kintai-kyo (錦帯橋), or "Brocade Sash Bridge" in English, is what everybody comes to see in Iwakuni. The 210m long bridge was originally built in 1673 under daimyo Kikkawa Hiroyoshi, without using a single nail ! It was swept away by floods caused by Typhoon Kezia in 1950, and was almost identically reconstructed in 1953. Note that there is a ￥300 charge to cross the bridge (return). Kintai-kyo's particularity is its five steep arches, typical of Edo era bridges. In old times, only samurai were allowed to use the bridge, leaving other people to cross the river by boat.
