List of dams

1852-Onbara Dam

Date of visit: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) We came to the Onwara Dam, the ninth dam we visited that day, by heading north along the Yoshii-gawa River from the Tomada Dam. As expected, 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...

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1909-Tomata Dam

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday)TomadaWe arrived at the Tomada Dam just a short distance from the 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 I was able to see it for the first time...

Okayama Prefecture Dam

3327-Tomata Anbu Dam

Date: 12/10/2014 (Wed)We stopped by the Tomada Saddle Dam because there was one dam we wanted to see 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.

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...

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1839-Ichinotaniike Pond

Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) The fifth unit of the day was Ichinotani Pond. As the name suggests, it is a reservoir and an earth dam. The difference in lightness and darkness was too great to retouch well, so this is the best I could do. The downstream side of the embankment is usually mowed clean...

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. The downstream face of the dike and the conduit can be seen from downstream, and it is not that much of a spectacle....

Okayama Prefecture Dam

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 the Kuroki Dam, we wandered around the stage of the horrific Tsuyama Incident, and took Prefectural Routes 75 and 68 to get to the Kanami Dam...

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1876-Kurogi Dam

Interview Date: 12/10/2014 (Wed)Following the Tsugawa Dam, we came to the Kuroki Dam. Kuroki Dam, like Tsugawa Dam, is also owned by Okayama Prefecture. Like the Tsugawa Dam, the Kuroki Dam is also an Okayama Prefecture-owned dam and is the same gravity-type concrete dam, but it is 29 years older than the Tsugawa Dam....

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1907-Tsugawa Dam

Date of the interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday)On this day, I decided to visit the dams in Okayama Prefecture to collect materials for the dam New Year's 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 the "Tsugawa River"...

Okayama Prefecture Dam

0567-Numappara Dam / Tochigi Prefecture

Date of visit: 11/19/2014 (Wed)On this day, after visiting the main tour, the Fukayama Dam, via the Shiobara Dam (glimpse only) and the Itamuro Dam (entrance only), the other main dam we were allowed to visit was the Numahara Dam. Pumped-storage power generation is being...

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0568-Fukayama Dam (Miyama Dam)

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wednesday)We came here via Shiobara Dam (glimpse only) and Itamuro Dam (entrance only), and then Fukayama Dam. It was one of the main dishes of the day. The Fukayama Dam was constructed at the uppermost reaches of the Naka River as part of the National Nasunohara Development and Construction Project. It is used for agricultural water and...

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0569-Itamuro Dam

Date: 11/19/2014 (Wed)Itamuro Dam is a gravity concrete dam constructed as a reverse control reservoir for the Fukayama Dam upstream and the Itamuro Power Plant of the Tochigi Prefectural Enterprise Bureau. Itamuro Dam also takes in water for irrigation and water supply. Knowing the way to Itamuro Dam, we dare you to visit...

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0570-Shiobara Dam

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wednesday)On this day, I visited Nasu Shiobara in Tochigi Prefecture for the first time in four years. The last time I visited Nasu Shiobara, I took the Shinkansen bullet train to participate in a tour of the Yashio Dam and the Snakeo River Dam, but I felt it was a waste of a long trip, so this time I drove to the me...

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

3280-Minamiaki Dam

Interview Date: 08/17/2014 (Sun)We came here after visiting Kurobe Dam and Utsukushi-ga-hara Highland Museum of Art in Toyama on a 2-day/1-night family trip to Namisaki Dam. The white limestone riprap looks like a chalk castle, and it is more beautiful than it sounds. The Namisaki Dam is a pumped storage power...

Nagano Prefecture Dam

1320-Katada Dam

Date of interview: 06/08/2014 (Sunday) I came to Katada Dam in Tsu City because there is a dam in Mie Prefecture that has a moco dam. Actually, I had visited there on May 31 of the same year, but was not able to enter that day and had to revisit the following week. At Ichi Masubin, a famous yakiniku restaurant in Mie...

Dam in Mie Prefecture

1229-Shin Toyone Dam

The day after the memorable 1st Gathering with Dam Lovers in Agigawa Dam, we decided to go and get an instruction manual for the new Toyone Dam card together! We were given an opportunity to visit the inside of the dam. The bones (?) of the aggregate of the Shin-Toyone Dam. The inside of the Shin-Toyone Dam

Dam in Aichi Prefecture

1482-Nagatani Oike Pond

Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun)This was the last stop on my tour of dams in the Tamba region. Hase Great Pond is an earth dam for irrigation only, and is a typical agricultural dam and reservoir with rice paddies downstream. The construction of the dam, however, is a history of hardship that can be glimpsed from a stone monument at the site....

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3045-Mitakara Dam

Interview Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun)The Minosho area where the Sanpo Dam is located originally had "three wells," as the name of the area suggests, and they were treasures for the residents to nurture their lives. The name "Sanpo Dam" was given to the dam in the hope that it would be a treasure as well....

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3234-Kurikara Dam

Interview Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun) Kurigara Dam was originally constructed under the name of Nishiki Dam (Nishiki Dam). It is a gravity-type concrete dam designed to control floods in the Kurigara area, provide water for the water supply, and maintain the normal functioning of running water. The name "Kurigara" is a reference to the Genpei...

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3367-Sanaka Dam

Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun) Sanaka Dam is an irrigation earth dam in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, and is one of four dams (Sanaka Dam, Tsubasaichi Dam, Hachimantani Dam, and Fujioka Dam) constructed as part of the Sasayama River Coastal Land Improvement Project Plan by the prefectural government's Irrigation and Drainage Project. The embankment...

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

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