A road over the beach

Katsuno, Takashima Town, Shiga
(Japan)

Omizo-Sanbashi (Pier). The pier had been crowded as a landing place of Taiko-Kisen (Liner) since around Meiji 20 (1887) and an important point of the lake transportation. But after the Showa era started the land transport replaced it and the Kosei-Koro (West lake route) was abolished in Showa 24 (1949). Today Route 161 runs exactly over where there once was the pier. Comparing both pictures, we can see the change of the relation between man and the water. (A. Kobayashi)