It is largest domestically in stone construction girder and is appointed to "important cultural property of country" as rare "multi-leg expression" nationwide. With simple structure that put columnar stone together bridge pier of triangle for drainer become streamlined. Between bridges which are 28.6m in length, nearly 3.3m in width, five lines of prisms of about 30cm are supported by 45 nine lines.
Village headman Kennosuke Otani in in (1832) proposes in 1832 in the building generation and, by cooperation of general public, we start construction by setsushitanjunkyosennihyakunensai and, including the master of local silver, are completed. As for the building stones, mason is ishiokutatsumigieimon of shitaura in the same way in shitaurasan, too.
Desperate struggle with the Christian forces and Karatsu feudal clan was developed by (1637), Shimabara, Amakusa riot across town Yamaguchi River in 1637. Monument inscribed with a tanka poem of Toku Hashimoto Toshi stands near the bridge to condole with corpse which filled up riverbank.
※Is transcribed into "Gion Bridge" in registration of pasokonn, but notation of Gion Bridge "gi" is him in ne (show change)