Bridge of Friendship

The East Wenatchee Bridge of Friendship Garden was designed as a symbol of friendship between the sister cities of Misawa, Japan and Wenatchee/East Wenatchee. In 1931 the first transpacific flight was made from Misawa, Japan to East Wenatchee. The Japanese garden is now a showcase at the corner of Ninth Street and Eastmont Avenue, not so very far from where Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon made their famous landing. At the center of the garden is a cedar bridge connecting two land masses, symbolic of other kinds of bridges this project strengthens.