Dosho, a monk, is said to have built the first bridge between 834 and 848, and later Ryoi SUMINOKURA is said to have built a bridge at the place where the present one is.
承和年間（834-848）に僧、道昌が架橋したのが始まりとされ、現在の位置には、後年に角倉了以が架けたとされる。