The Konohana Bridge crosses the Port of Osaka in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan. Osaka City owns it. Hitachi Zosen, MHI, Yokogawa Bridge and KHI built it. Construction started in 1979, and the bridge was finished in March 1990. The article does not list a designer.
It is a self-anchored suspension bridge with a single main cable. The total length is 5,153 feet (1,570.6 meters), the main span is 984 feet (300 meters), the width is 80 feet (24.5 meters), and the height is 323 feet (98.6 meters). It carries motor vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles.
At completion it was the largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world. The Yeongjong Grand Bridge in Korea matches its center span. The replacement eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge later passed it with a 1,263 feet (385 meters) span.
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