Japan is a mountainous country that offers spectacular views that vary by season and well, mountains are clad in autumn with a thousand shades of ocher, sepia, red and gold in a beautiful palette of seasonal colors and smells.
Winter in contrast, tends to accumulate a huge amount of snow in a place known as ‘the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route’ in the Canyon Otani Yuki-not found in Toyama Prefecture.
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is part of the Japanese Alps and connects the city with Omacha Yoyama, this route was completed in 1971, thus providing an alternative tourist winter seasons, ideal for lovers ski, snowboard, Nordic walking and other activities that are possible to perform on-site.
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route has become one of the most visited by both foreign and domestic tourists is that it can be accessed by various means such as traditional classics and trolleybuses, funicular railways and cableways to reach destination despite the heavy snow falling in place.
This amount of rainfall, due to heavy snowfall is precisely one of the peculiarities of the place because the snow made constant work to open roads and corridors unique set of snow framed between towering walls of ice more than 10 meters high.
The geography of the place then adopts a singular face that you see in this video and adds a new charm.
Tags: Corridors of Snow, Tateyama-Kurobe Route, winter seasons