Seta no Karahashi Bridge is one of the Three Famous Bridges of Japan, and has also been immortalized in "Evening Glow at Seta," one of the Eight Views of Omi. In the past it has been called the Setahashi Bridge and Seta no Nagahashi (“long bridge”), and it is even mentioned in the Nihon-shoki, the oldest chronicles of Japan. Its current condition is as created by the feudal warlord Nobunaga Oda.