The ferry Kameyama sails across the Ōshima Strait with the island’s peak that gives it its name behind it. The ferry service is scheduled to come to an end once the bridge route is completed.
A massive crane barge sets the span down on its pillars. The main structure was built in Okayama Prefecture and shipped to Miyagi for installation.
A young schoolgirl from the island photographs the new bridge pillars during a tour of the site for Ōshima residents. Her worried question to her father, “Is the ferry really going to disappear?” hints at the uncertainties that remain in the islanders’ future.
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