Gunma Dam0616-高津戸ダム（たかつどだむ）/ 群馬県
取材日：2015/06/03(水)高津戸ダムは群馬県みどり市を流れる渡良瀬川に建設された、群馬県企業局管理の発電専用重力式コンクリートダムです。直下には高津戸発電所があり、最大5,300kWの発電を行っています。また、東発電所・小平発電所の...
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Gunma Dam0621-桐生川ダム（きりゅうがわだむ）/ 群馬県
取材日：2015/06/03(水)桐生川ダムは群馬県桐生市にある重力式コンクリートダムです。ダム湖である梅田湖と周辺公園が整備されており、映画やドラマのロケ地としても知られています。今回は実際に現地を訪れ、展望台や堤体、周辺施設を見学してき...
Tochigi Prefecture Dam0581-松田川ダム（まつだがわだむ）/ 栃木県
取材日：2015/06/03(水)この日は、群馬の片品村の宿泊施設に泊まると、丸沼ダムの限定ダムカードが配布されると聞いて、熱狂的に集めているわけではないものの、なぜか欲しいと思い最終目的地を丸沼ダムに定め群馬に向かいました。その日、最初の...
Nagano Prefecture Dam0998-みどり湖（みどりこ）/ 長野県（旧名：向坂溜池/むこうざかためいけ）
取材日：2015/04/02(木)確かこの日は家族旅行で長野県の喬木町でいちご狩りをし、上田駅でこの年に新しく金沢駅まで開通した北陸新幹線を見て、白樺湖の池の平ホテルに泊まり、翌日はチロルの森で遊んで、その後立ち寄らせてもらったのがみどり湖...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1870-小阪部川ダム（おさかべがわだむ）/ 岡山県
取材日：2015/2/18(水)この日は新成羽川ダムを見学させていただくのを主目的としてダム愛好家仲間と岡山県新見市にやってきています。千屋ダム・新成羽川ダム・田原ダム・河本ダムを見学し、この日最後に訪問したのが小阪部川ダムでした。堤体への...
Nagano Prefecture Dam1028-Okusususobana Dam / Nagano, Japan
The day before, I participated in the "Kuroyon 60th Anniversary Limited Special Program 'Kurobe Dam Tour'" and visited Omachi Dam for the first time in a very long time after the tour was over, staying overnight at a business hotel in front of Omachi Station that day. The next day, we planned to visit the Takase Dam, which we had not yet visited, but the weather was doubtful and we had to walk...
Dam in Ishikawa Prefecture0913-Dainichigawa Dam / Ishikawa, Japan
Date: 7/29/2023 (Monday)After visiting Managawa Dam, Sasagawa Dam, and Kumogawa Dam as part of a seasonal event to familiarize myself with forests and lakes, I took advantage of my free time before leaving to travel to Ishikawa Prefecture to visit Akase Dam, and then I visited Dainichigawa Dam. This was the last dam of the day...
Dam in Ishikawa Prefecture0917-Akase Dam / Ishikawa, Japan
Date: 7/29/2023 (Monday)After visiting Managawa Dam, Sasagawa Dam, and Kumogawa Dam for the "Friendship with Forests and Lakes" event, I thought about what to do with the time I had before returning home, and decided to go to an area in Ishikawa Prefecture that I had not visited. The first of these was the Akase Dam...
Fukui Prefecture Dam0938-Umokawa Dam / Fukui Prefecture
Date: 7/29/2023 (Mon.) I came here after a tour at the Sasagawa Dam. It seems that we used to be able to go close to the embankment, but we gave up and just looked at it from the national highway because of this sign on the single pipe barricade. I wonder if we can get permission if we call them... Unkawa Dam...
Fukui Prefecture Dam0939-Sasogawa Dam / Fukui Prefecture
Date of visit: Monday, July 29, 2023The Sasao River Dam is located upstream of the Managawa Dam on the Sasao River, the right branch of the Managawa River. It was one of the dams I had always wanted to visit, but since the top edge of the dam is usually off-limits, I had no choice but to go for a tour during the "Friendship with Forests and Lakes" season. However, the first time we went, my son drove ...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1873-Kawamoto Dam / Okayama Prefecture
Date of the interview: 2/18/2015 (Wed)After a thorough tour of the Shin Naruha River Dam and a quick visit to the Tahara Dam, we came to the Kawamoto Dam, which is operated by the Okayama Prefectural Government. Kawamoto Dam is a hollow gravity concrete dam that is used for flood control, power generation, and industrial water supply to the Mizushima Coastal Industrial Zone...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1880-Tabara Dam / Okayama Prefecture
Date of interview: 2/18/2015 (Wed)The Shin Naruha River Dam's reservoir is used as an upper reservoir for pumped-storage power generation, and the Tahara Dam is located in the lower reservoir of the Shin Naruha River Dam. On this day, I was allowed to visit the Shin Naruha River Dam with my friends and then moved on to another dam, so...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1879-Shinnarigawa River Dam / Okayama Prefecture
Interview Date: 2/18/2015 (Wed)The Shin Naruha River Dam is a gravity arch dam owned by the Chugoku Electric Power Co. and is responsible not only for supplying electricity to the rapidly developing postwar industrial area, but also for supplying water for industrial use. The Shin Naruha River Dam is a gravity arch dam owned by the Chugoku Electric Power Company, which not only supplies electric power to the rapidly developing postwar industrial area, but also supplies industrial water.
Okayama Prefecture Dam1905-Chiya Dam / Okayama Pref.
Date of interview: 2/18/2015 (Wed.) On this day, we were invited to go see the Shin Naruha River Dam together, and we stopped by the Senya Dam on the way. It looks like a direct dam because of its gorgeous equipment, but it is a Okayama Prefecture-owned dam. The time was around 7:40 in the morning. The time was around 7:40 in the morning...
Wakayama Prefecture Dam1644-Tonoyama Dam a.k.a. Gogawa Dam / Wakayama Prefecture
Date of interview: 1/28/2015 (Wed.) The last dam visited on this day became the Tonoyama Dam, an arch dam owned by Kansai Electric Power Co. It is also known as the "Godo River Dam". I don't remember anymore where and how we drove, but it seemed that we had traveled quite a distance from the Shimanose Dam...
Wakayama Prefecture Dam1650-Shimanose Dam / Wakayama Prefecture
Date of interview: 1/28/2015 (Wed) After leaving the Kirimegawa Dam, we visited the Shimanose Dam. This was the fourth dam of the day. The Shimanose Dam is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and is used for agricultural water as Nanki Water. The region's specialties are of course Kishu plums, Nanko plums and mandarin oranges...
Wakayama Prefecture Dam3131-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 ...
Wakayama Prefecture Dam1649-Tsubayama Dam / Wakayama Pref.
Date of visit: 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 owned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or the Japan Water...
Wakayama Prefecture Dam1648-Hirogawa Dam / Wakayama Pref.
Date of interview: Wednesday, 1/28/2015I came to Wakayama Prefecture on this day because I heard 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...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1868-Yashiroguchi Dam
Date of visit: 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 sacred place...
