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Yalu River Broken Bridge 鸭绿江断桥Yālù Jiāng Duànqiáo
National heritage site · Dandong, Liaoning
- Time needed
- About 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dandong
- Region
- Liaoning
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yalu River Broken Bridge
The Broken Bridge is what remains of the first bridge built across the Yalu, a 12-span steel railway bridge that Japan began in 1909 to link Korea with the Eurasian rail network and that later carried road traffic. United States aircraft bombed it in November 1950 during the Korean War; the Korean-side spans were later dismantled, and the four surviving Chinese spans have been a walkway since 1993, ending mid-river at a viewing platform beside the old swing-span mechanism. The Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge stands just upstream, and the city of Sinuiju faces the walkway across the water.
How to get to Yalu River Broken Bridge
On Jiang'an Road on Dandong's riverfront, about 1 km south-east of Dandong railway station.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Yalu River Scenic Area 鸭绿江风景名胜区 (under 10 km), Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea 抗美援朝纪念馆 (under 10 km), Hushan Great Wall 虎山长城 (20 km).
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