The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, also known as the Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway, is a bridge - tunnel combination across Tokyo Bay in Japan. It connects the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture with the city of Kisaradu in Chiba Prefecture. With an overall length of 14 km, it includes a 4.4 km bridge and 9.6 km tunnel underneath the bay - the fourth-longest underwater tunnel in the world.
Around the City of Kisaradu including the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, the 2014 Chiba Aqua-Line Marathon was held and I took part in it. The bridge section of the Aqua-Line was used as a part of the marathon route. Needless to say, the bridge was built for passenger and cargo traffic, and people are not allowed to walk on it. Only on the marathon day, the bridge is open to runners. That is, it's the single chance to take such a picture that I'll show you below. For your information, the guy who took this picture was a strange runner. When I saw him ask one of the organizing staff members to shoot his picture and be rejected, I suggested to him that we take pictures in rotation. The point of the picture was about 10km, and I ran with two friends to this point to take pictures of each other, but thanks to him, all three were able to enter in one picture. As for the result, don't ask me!
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