The Roman Eight bridges in Ozu City, Ehime Pref. are roofed bridges, which are very rare in Japan. One of the bridges, Miyuki-no-hashi Bridge, was designated as an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property by Ehime Pref. in 1970. The bridge was originally built in the Edo period but it was washed away by the attack of a typhoon in 1886 and rebuilt in the same year. This bridge with a length of about 8 m and a width of about 3 meters is made of zelkova wood and no nails are used. In the old times there were many roofed wooden bridges in the mountain areas to protect the bridge itself from heavy snow. Those bridges gradually fell into disuse when solid concrete bridges for cars began to be constructed in the post-war period. It was ten years ago, however, that the Miyuki-no-hashi Bridge suddenly attracted attention of the tourists all over the country due to the hit of the film “The Bridges of Madison County,” in which a roofed bridge was used as the background. Since then a lot of tourists have come to see this bridge, and the city of Ozu decided to build four more bridges in addition to the remaining four bridges and gave a collective name of “Roman Eight Bridges (‘Roman’ means ‘romantic’ in Japanese).