This Highway In Japan Looks Like An Absolute Nightmare To Drive On

Metro- It’s a road-er coaster. Forget the funfair, if it’s thrills and tummy flips you’re after, Japan’s Eshima Ohashi bridge can provide them in spades. The mile long bridge, which spans Lake Nakaumi linking the cities of Matsue and Sakaiminato, looks less like a bridge than a massive concrete road-er coaster (see what we did there?). At its steepest point, the bridge has a gradient of 6.1 per cent (which doesn’t mean much to us, but is apparently pretty steep), meaning that you wouldn’t want to be stuck on a jam on there without a sturdy clutch (#CarChat). And if you’re wondering why someone would build a bridge like this in the first place (we sure as hell were), no, it wasn’t because they’d been on the sake, but it’s so ships can pass under.

First of all, that’s just dumb.  They went through all that trouble and built a highway like that for ships?  Dumb.  Haven’t they heard of those bridges that separate and allow ships to drive through? Apparently not because I’m pretty sure that’d be a more efficient way of going about it than whatever they hell they decided on.  Second, I will pay someone $100 to try and ride a bike up that highway.  That needs to be a daily occurrence there actually.  $100, no standing on the pedals and GO!  Just people pumping their little legs until they finally fall over.  You’d have bodies rolling down the hill all day every day and it’d be an absolute riot.  Anybody gets to the top they get the $100 and a high five.  Hell, I’d try it.  Maybe we spice it up a little and have people attempt to go down the hill on their bikes with no hands on the handle bars. Fun for the whole family as people’s faces scrape across concrete.  Fine, all of the proceeds can go to charity. All I’m saying is Japan is dropping the ball in terms of watching people fall on their face.

PS- Honestly not even sure if my Chevy Cobalt could make it up that hill.  He’s a trooper but not exactly a beast.