Japan’s Scariest Suspension Bridge: Dare to Cross?
Musou Tsuribashi, known as “Japan’s Scariest Suspension Bridge”, is extremely narrow and precarious.
Located in the Southern Japanese Alps, also known as the Akaishi Mountains, the bridge dates back to the 1950s, marking it as not only the scariest, but also Japan’s oldest remaining suspension bridge.
The bridge is held together mostly by wire, with thin wooden boards across its width for stabilization. Additional boards, also very thin, span the length of the bridge so that people can walk across with only as much space as two boards will allow.
As you can see in the video below, the bridge is falling apart and some boards are knocked out of place or even missing.
Before you even reach the bridge you have to climb the side of the mountain, which offers only metal chains to hold onto and is too steep to climb without assistance.
Still, if you like roller coasters, the rotting board on this bridge is sure to make you thrilled you came.
Happy hiking!
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By MDeeDubroff on 20-01-2009
Comment by loswl
January 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Call me crazy, but that is a suicide bridge!!….the other side is not that important for me to cross…lol
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Comment by Garth
January 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I have to agree with loswl
Comment by HELEN
January 20th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
how freakin long is that bridge!
Comment by gswafford
January 20th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I think I’d be more concerned with the length of the fall, not the length of the bridge.
Comment by Gee-man
January 20th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Ha ha, oh wow, that’s a bridge in the very most basic definition of the word. Makes me wonder what’s on the other side to make it worth the trouble.
Comment by Crazy
January 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm
whatever happens,im not going on that.never
Comment by elllo
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
and this person is holding on to a camera?
I would be holding on to my life!
Comment by Eboni
January 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Just watching the video made me feel nervous! I hope it was really worth the trouble to cross that thing. I wouldn’t have the courage to do that!
Comment by MDeeDubroff
January 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I’m afraid of heights myself and wouldn’t go anywhere near this bridge.
Thank you all for your thoughts.
I appreciate them.
Comment by Maureen
January 26th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Just looking at the video made me nauseous. I cannot imagine crossing that. What is on the other side?
Comment by Ajay
March 28th, 2009 at 6:38 am
72 virgins…
Comment by george
June 18th, 2009 at 8:19 am
shut the hell up you