Lake Kurobe

The emerald color lake surrounded by Tateyama Mountain range attracts tourists from Spring to Autumn

Kurobe Lake is a water reservoir and a part of Kurobe River that collected melted snow from Japan’s Northern Alpine Mountain range. In the late 19th to early 20th century this area was still a remote ...

Lakes among the valleys

Original Text

The lake at the Kurobe Dam area It is one of the Alpine route routes. There are restaurants and activities around the lake, such as boating.

The emerald green seen from the ropeway is beautiful

Original Text

Lake Kurobe was formed by a weir by the Kurobe Dam. It is also glacial water, and the emerald green seen from the ropeway is beautiful.

It is a huge artificial lake that praises the melting water from the Tateyama mountain range and the Gotateyama mountain range.

Original Text

　Lake Kurobe was created with the construction of Kurobe Dam. In other words, it is a huge artificial reservoir. Since it is located in the Kurobe Valley between the Tateyama mountain range and the Gotateyama mountain range in the Northern Alps, it praises cold melted snow. Therefore, the average annual water temperature is ４℃. The total amount of water storage is about 200 million tons. It seems that it is 161 cups of Tokyo Dome.

Water storage ２ billion トンは Japan's largest!

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　I took an electric bus from Ogizawa Station on the Nagano Prefecture side and arrived at Kurobe Dam. The station on the Kurobe Dam side is in the ground, so if you go up the stairs with a considerable length, there is an observatory ahead, and you can see the magnificent view of Kurobe Dam, Lake Kurobe, and the surrounding mountains 々 where snow still remains. I was able to do it. This Kurobe Dam was started in 1931 and completed in 1938. It seems that the amount of water storage is 200 million tons, and that amount is still the largest in Japan. Enzumi Moma ...