Tsujun Bridge

Tsujun Bridge is Japan's largest stone aqueduct bridge, built in 1854 to carry irrigation water across a deep valley to farmland on the plateau above. The bridge is 75 meters long and 20 meters high, and was an extraordinary engineering achievement for its time, designed by a local headman named Futoda Hossuke. The bridge is famous for its spectacular scheduled water discharges, when water is released from spouts on both sides of the bridge, creating dramatic arcs of water plunging into the valley below. This discharge was originally designed to clear sediment from the water channels. The bridge was designated an Important Cultural Property and is set amid beautiful rural scenery in the mountains of central Kumamoto.