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...
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Gunma Dam
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...
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 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...
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...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1869-Yubara Dam
Date of interview: 12/10/2014 (Wed.) I came from Onwara Dam via Ningyo-toge (Ningyo Pass) in a big Tottori turn to Yubara Dam. 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 Asahikawa So...
Okayama Prefecture Dam1852-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 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 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....
Okayama Prefecture Dam1907-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"...
