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Snow corridors in Hokkaido
In Japan Toyama Prefecture is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan - Tateyama Kurobe mountain route. By Tateyama mountain spring can be reached only on the highway, which in this time of year is bordered by huge snow layer.
Tateyama mountain considered sacred and the Japanese tend to come here at least once in life. Companies come here, families and entire groups. Summer comes a lot of students. On the slopes include hiking trails, are very popular among advocates of a healthy lifestyle. But the "peak" of tourists is in April-May, when they begin to dig out the snow from the highway and you can see the real wonder of the world - snow corridor "Yukino Otani».
This "great snow wall" has a height of 20 meters. Corridor "cut through" deep in the snow, and that its axis coincides with the axis of the road, on the roadside are special landmarks multimeter with mounted radio transmitters in them. Directions by road private vehicles is prohibited, as are buses plying an electric motor so as not to contaminate the sparkling white snow walls of the corridor.
Tateyama mountain considered sacred and the Japanese tend to come here at least once in life. Companies come here, families and entire groups. Summer comes a lot of students. On the slopes include hiking trails, are very popular among advocates of a healthy lifestyle. But the "peak" of tourists is in April-May, when they begin to dig out the snow from the highway and you can see the real wonder of the world - snow corridor "Yukino Otani».
This "great snow wall" has a height of 20 meters. Corridor "cut through" deep in the snow, and that its axis coincides with the axis of the road, on the roadside are special landmarks multimeter with mounted radio transmitters in them. Directions by road private vehicles is prohibited, as are buses plying an electric motor so as not to contaminate the sparkling white snow walls of the corridor.
