JAPAN

JAPAN / 日本

Roads crossing the Seto Inland Sea.
Great Seto Bridge.
First stamp in a minisheet of 10, issued on 08.07.2010.
Face value: 80 Japanese yen.
Design: Maruyama Satoru.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,200,000 copies.
Size: 28 x 37 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No.
- Michel No. 5352.
- Sakura No. R775a.
- Scott No. 3248a.
- StampWorld No. 5375.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 4422.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 5151.

The Great Seto Bridge or Seto Ohashi Bridge (瀬戸大橋) is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Built over the period 1978–88, it is one of the three routes of the Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands and the only one to carry rail traffic. The total length is 13.1 kilometers (8.1 mi). The bridge opened to road and rail traffic on April 10, 1988.