Shin Jinma

A facility tour and quiz rally will be held at the Nagara River estuary weir on Saturday, May 27. The boat tour is limited to the first 70 visitors on the day of the tour, but it is a popular event, and last year the registration closed in the morning. Those who answer the quiz rally questions correctly will receive a commemorative gift. Also, the quiz rally check...

This is finally the 8th "Gathering with Dam Lovers." This time it will be the Iwaya Dam, one of the five rock-fill dams (FIVE ROCK'S) in the jurisdiction of the Chubu Branch of the Japan Water Agency. There is a dam curry nearby, so let's eat and visit the Iwaya Dam! Overview■Date & TimeHeisei 29...

The "Tono Dam Festival" will be held on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the Tono Dam, a rock-fill dam in Tottori City. The event will include a tour of the Tono Dam, dam curry, Tono Dam bingo, a quiz rally, lectures, and much more. I, Shin Jinma, will give a talk introducing Tono Dam and other dams in Japan.

It has been a year and a half since the last "6th Gathering with Dam Lovers" held at the Kaneyama Intake & Maruyama Dam. We are very sorry for the long wait! The "7th Gathering with Dam Lovers" will be held! This year's event will be a continuation of the Aichi Waterway series, and will be the last in the series! The venue is Togo Regulating Pond, locally known as Aichi Pond!

The Japan Dam Awards 2016 were held on Sunday, December 18 at Tokyo Culture Culture, which has relocated from Odaiba to Shibuya, and the awards for Discharge Award, Low Water Management Award, Event Award, Flood Control Award, and Dam Grand Prize were announced. In addition, the Light-Up Award was newly established as a new trial this year, and the advance...

A tour of the permanent flood discharge at the Tokuyama Dam in Gifu Prefecture will be held on Monday, November 7. The Tokuyama Dam is currently at a low water level, and visitors will be able to see the flood discharge from the upstream side, which is not normally visible. This sight is also shown in the book "To Those Who Love Dams," but we hope you will be able to see this rare sight with your own eyes.

The fourth volume of "Dam Manga," which has been serialized in Shonen Gahosha's Young King Hours GH since 2014 and has been making the media rounds because of its main character, a beautiful girl who defies the image of dams, will be released tomorrow, September 16. Unfortunately, this volume will also be the final volume. For a preview, t...

Masaki Hagiwara, dam writer and dam photographer, announced that "Dam Night 8" will be held. The venue is Tokyo Culture Culture, and the show will start at 12:00 pm. In other words, it is a "dam night" held at noon, and some people on Twitter said, "Dam night in the middle of the day? and "Dam Night even though it's in the middle of the day! The details of the event will be worked out in the future.

JTB will hold "Dam Talk Show & Kasumigaura Water Conduction & Iida Dam Tour in Ibaraki" as a domestic one-day tour on Saturday, July 23, 2016 only. The tour includes a dam talk show by Mr. Saki Miyajima, a tour of Kasumigaura Water Supply and Iida Dam, and a visit to...

JTB is now offering a 7-day/5-night tour of 6 selected Swiss dams under the supervision of dam enthusiast Masaki Hagiwara. Hagiwara will accompany the tour throughout the entire trip. The trip is priced at 378,000 yen per adult (tax included). The tour fee is 378,000 yen per adult (tax included), based on double occupancy in a twin room, economy class seats, and...

The "Ogawachi Dam Special" that was well received last June will be shown again at the Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks History Museum from March 12 (Sat) to March 13 (Sun). If you have not seen the film yet, why not learn about the history of the construction of the Ogawachi Dam, the water reservoir of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government?

The Japan Dam Awards 2015 were held at Culture Culture in Odaiba, Tokyo, on Saturday, December 26, and the awards were announced: the Discharge Award, Low Water Management Award, Event Award, Flood Control Award, and Dam Grand Prize. This year's event was covered by Nippon Television Network Corporation's morning information program, "Sukkiri! a morning information program affiliated with Nippon Television Network...

The Omura Convention & Visitors Association has informed us that there are still places available for the special tour to be held on Saturday, December 12 at the Kayase Dam in Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture. The main point of the tour is that visitors will be able to see the inside of the embankment, which they normally cannot see.

A talk live event by dam enthusiasts, "Dam Gokoro - All Dams are Interesting," will be held at Loft Plus One West in Osaka on Saturday, November 14. The event will feature Yajaku-san, a leading dam enthusiast in the Kansai region, Kamima, a dam enthusiast from the central region, and Machan, a "dam insider.

The last tour was held at the "Makio Dam", the source of water for Aichi Irrigation, and this time we will visit the "Kaneyama Intake Works", the second in the Aichi Irrigation series! And this time, we will also visit the Maruyama Dam as part of the tour! Maruyama Dam will never be seen again in the future due to the new Maruyama Dam, so this is your chance to see it for yourself!