Gunma Dam0597-早川ダム（はやかわだむ）/ 群馬県
取材日：2015/06/03(水)早川ダムは、群馬県みどり市大間々町桐原と桐生市新里町新川の境界付近、利根川水系早川に築かれた、かんがい用水専用のアースダムです。1940年に竣工し、堤高26.0m、堤頂長241.8m、総貯水容量120万m³...
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Gunma Dam
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...
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...
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...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1909-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 Dam3327-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 Dam3491-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 Dam1839-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 Dam1864-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 Dam1889-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 Dam1876-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....
Tochigi Prefecture Dam0568-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 Dam0570-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...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam1482-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 Dam3367-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...
Dam in Shiga Prefecture1355-Serikawa Dam
Date of report:2021/10/9 (Sat) & 10/31 (Sun)Serikawa Dam has been undergoing seismic reinforcement and facility repair work under the "2021 Great Repair" project for several years. Personally, I had not visited the Serigawa Dam in the Koto area of Shiga Prefecture, but recently, the construction of the main body of the embankment was completed...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam1512-Fujioka Dam
Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun) Fujioka Dam is a rock-fill dam for irrigation in Tamba-Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, and is one of four dams (Sanaka Dam, Fujioka Dam, Tsubaki Dam, and Yawataya Dam) constructed as part of the prefectural irrigation and drainage project as part of the Sasayama River ...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam1493- Tsubuichi Dam
Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun.) On this day, there was an award ceremony for a photo contest by the Japan Dam Association at Hiyoshi Dam, so I decided to visit nearby dams until it was time to attend that event. I also decided to visit Tamba Sasayama for the first time in about three months. The embankment from the left bank...
Ehime Dam2243-Yanase Dam / Ehime, Japan
Date of visit: 3/1/2014 (Sat.) From Shingu Dam, we came via National Route 319, which runs along the reservoir, to Yanase Dam, which is located upstream. In Shikoku, there is a dam in Tokushima, which is pronounced "Yanase," which is also written as "Uryase. The name "Yanase" is also pronounced "Yanase" in Tokushima, so it may sound like "Which one?
