Shin Jinma

3131-Kirimegawa Dam / Wakayama Pref.

Date: 1/28/2015 (Wed.) I came here after hearing that the Kirimegawa Dam, which is under test flooding, is surcharged and overflowing. As I live in Aichi Prefecture, the route from Mie Prefecture is shorter in terms of driving distance, but since there are many sections where the expressway is not yet ...

2023.01.27

Wakayama Prefecture Dam

1649-Tsubayama Dam / Wakayama Pref.

Date of interview: 1/28/2015 (Wed.) The second dam of the day was the Tsubakiyama Dam. It is one of the dams in Wakayama that I would like to see once because it has prevented floods many times. It is equipped with many facilities and looks like a dam of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Japan Water Agency, but it is a prefectural...

2023.01.21

Wakayama Prefecture Dam

New Year's gift for you! Hatsumode at Jishui-jinja Shrine 2023

Last year 2022 brought record rainfall in the Tohoku region due to high water temperatures and high water vapor in the Sea of Japan. typhoon No. 14 in September grew to be called a super typhoon with a central pressure of 910 hectopascals. Five people were killed and more than 150 injured nationwide...

2023.01.03

Dam log

Dam to go Dam to come Dam 2022-2023

I would like to take this year's annual look back. This year, as last year, I have not been able to travel very far due to the Corona disaster, but I still managed to visit more new dams in the Hokuriku region........ The rest of the year was mostly spent at the Maruyama Dam... 2022/01/...

2022.12.31

Dam log

1648-Hirogawa Dam / Wakayama Pref.

Date of interview: 1/28/2015 (Wed.) On this day, I came to Wakayama Prefecture after hearing that the Kirimegawa Dam, which was under test flooding, had reached its surcharge level and would be discharging water on a test basis. Looking back, it was the first time in my life to visit Wakayama Prefecture. It was just before 7:00 in the morning in winter, so it was a little...

2022.12.18

Wakayama Prefecture Dam

December 2014 Mimasaka area, Okayama Prefecture, Japan: Dam tour (Tsugawa Dam - Yashiroguchi Dam)

While the main target of this day was the Kanami Dam for the purpose of making a New Year's greeting card, we also visited the Tomada Dam with its wonderful design, the Onbara Dam, a rare buttress dam in Japan, and the Yubara Dam, where you can enjoy the combination of a hot spring and a dam...

2022.12.04

Driving course

1868-Yashiroguchi Dam

Date of the interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) This was the last dam tour of the day. After leaving the Yubara Dam, we headed south along the Asahikawa River, stopping at the Shaguchi Dam on the way to the Yubara IC. To the east of the Shaguchi Dam is an area called Yashiro, which, as the name implies, is a spiritual...

2022.12.03

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1869-Yubara Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) The Yubara Dam is the one we came from Onbara Dam via Ningyo-Toge (Ningyo Pass) in a largely Tottori roundabout way. This was the 10th dam on this day. This Yubara Dam is one of the dams that I have wanted to see many times. The Yubara Dam was built by Okayama Prefecture in 1948 as the Asahi...

2022.11.28

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1852-Onbara Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) From the Tomada Dam, we headed north along the Yoshii-gawa River and came to the Onbara Dam, which was the ninth dam we visited that day. As one would expect, there was a lot of snow on the ground when we arrived here. The Onba Dam is a buttress dam. This was the first time in my life that I visited a buttress dam and...

2022.11.06

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1909-Tomata Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) TomadaWe arrived at this Tomada Dam just a short distance from the Tomada Kurambe Dam. This was the eighth dam of the day. I had always wanted to visit the dam after seeing photos taken by others, but finally got to see it for the first time...

2022.10.29

Okayama Prefecture Dam

3327-Tomata Anbu Dam

Date: 12/10/2014 (Wed) I stopped by the Tomada Saddle Dam because I wanted to see one dam before the Tomada Dam, one of the main dams of the day. A saddle is a depression in a mountain ridge like a horse's saddle.

2022.10.08

Okayama Prefecture Dam

3491-Yadaniike Pond

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) The sixth unit of the day was Yatani Pond. As the name suggests, it is an earth dam and a reservoir. The map clearly shows that the Gokurakuji Pond, Ichinotani Pond, and this Yatani Pond are dams constructed in three different valleys. It is as if there are three...

2022.10.01

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1839-Ichinotaniike Pond

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday) The fifth unit of the day was Ichinotani Pond. As the name suggests, it is a reservoir and an earth dam. This is the limit of my retouching because the difference between light and dark is too large. The downstream face of the embankment is usually clean...

2022.09.30

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1864-Gokurakuji Pond / Okayama Prefecture

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) The fourth unit of the day was Gokurakuji Pond. As the name suggests, there is a historic temple called Gokurakuji upstream of the reservoir, which was opened during the Wado period. View of the downstream face of the dike and the conduit from downstream It is possible to see the dike from downstream, and it is...

2022.09.25

Okayama Prefecture Dam

Music videos (music videos) featuring dams and dam lakes

Reading: Dam Dam Dam Kogatoujousuru Mbuy Alias: - A music video in which a dam or dam lake appears is a video work that is filmed on location at a dam embankment or reservoir and appears in a music video (music video). The following is a list of music videos that we are aware of. Please note that the...

2022.09.23

Dam News

1889-Kagami Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed) We came to the main purpose of this day's dam tour, the Kanami Dam. Like the Tsugawa Dam and Kuroki Dam, this dam is also owned by Okayama Prefecture. From Kuroki Dam, we wandered around the stage of the horrific Tsuyama Incident, and took Prefectural Routes 75 and 68 to Kanami...

2022.09.23

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1876-Kurogi Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) After the Tsugawa Dam, we came to the Kuroki Dam. The name of the dam is not "Kuroki" but "Kurogi. Like the Tsugawa Dam, the Kuroki Dam is also an Okayama Prefecture-operated dam and is the same gravity-type concrete dam, but it is 29 years older than the Tsugawa Dam....

2022.09.13

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1907-Tsugawa Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) On this day, I decided to visit the dams in Okayama Prefecture to collect materials for the dam New Year greeting cards I make every year (even though it is already December), and Tsugawa Dam was the first dam I visited. Tsugawa Dam is a multi-purpose dam operated by Okayama Prefecture. The river flowing through Tsugawa Dam is called "Tsugawa...

2022.09.04

Okayama Prefecture Dam

Dumb Night 11" at Tokyo Culture Culture on Aug. 21! (Live streaming available!)

The first dam talk live in two years will be held at Tokyo Culture Culture. The three performers will be Masaki Hagiwara of the YouTube channel "Syphon TV," Yosuke Iiboshi, a dam lover and editor, and Naoki Kimishima of the YouTube channel "Dam Trip Channel," and this...

2022.08.19

Dam News

0567-Numappara Dam / Tochigi Prefecture

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wed.) On this day, after visiting the Fukayama Dam, the main part of the tour via Shiobara Dam (glimpse only) and Itamuro Dam (entrance only), the other main dam we visited was the Numahara Dam. This dam is used for pumped-storage power generation...

2022.08.19

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

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