The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge now under construction will become the world's longest suspension bridge with a total length of 3,910 m when completed. Each main cable measures about 1,1 m in diameter, totaling about 50,500 tons in weight, and represents an unprecedented large-scale project. Long engaged in the development of cable design and fabrication methods, Nippon Steel has realized the PPWS (prefabricated parallel wire strand) method and bridge cable wires with a high strength of 180 kgf/mm2. The company also has tackled the development of various methods for bridge cable erection. An overview is given here of the cable erection work of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.