19/07/2010
This was one of the greatest trips I ever had in Japan. a beautiful trip through nature, watching nature,living nature and dying nature.
Once you arrive at Tateyama station a cable car awaits you to take you to an upper point. the cable car is somewhat 30 degrees ascend and in earlier days, it is said that people used to climb that way up on steps. Most of it is a climb through tunnels so not much of the nature can be seen at first.
This was one of the greatest trips I ever had in Japan. a beautiful trip through nature, watching nature,living nature and dying nature.
Once you arrive at Tateyama station a cable car awaits you to take you to an upper point. the cable car is somewhat 30 degrees ascend and in earlier days, it is said that people used to climb that way up on steps. Most of it is a climb through tunnels so not much of the nature can be seen at first.
From the next point you connect to a bus tour of 50 minutes through a wild forest. It has its own unique glories and this 50 minutes mark the trip. One cable car pulls people enough for three shuttle buses. All people are expected to be seated through out the way, and i would recommend you to sit on the left hand side of the bus. Sit and see, you will know why.
Next several paragraphs will take you through what I saw and savoured in the next 50 minutes since the bus started to move. The station is called Bijodaira and no people are living there as it is a protected area of wild life and nature.
This large pine tree is one of the oldest tallest and fattest trees left in the area.
This is the Japan s highest all year round waterfall named shomyou taki at 349m.
Toyama Prefecture from the Tateyama Mountain Range
Snow and greenery - a beautiful contrast
Falls made of sulphur solved water and snow melted water
Tateyama Mountain Range from the bus
At the end of the 50 minutes you reach the Murado staion where you can go on trekking, walking and hiking amidst beautiful cool greenery and snow in the summer. People who would like to continue to the Kurobe dam then takes the trolley bus to reach the Daikanbo staion. This trolley bus is really a railway bus and whole route is running through a tunnel through mountains. This bus runs through the fault which once killed nearly hundred people with a sudden spring water leakage.
From Kurobedaira station, you have to take the cable cars twice to reach the Kurobe dam. The view from th e cable cars are so magnificent specially when the dam comes to view.
Below is the Kurobe dam station and the Kurobe dam in its lush greenery.
Special thanks to Mr.Ametani, Mr.Ikeda and the two daughters, MR,Yamamoto and the two daughters.
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Damn these views look bloody smashing......... u know kula u'r one lucky gal to see all this......!!!
ReplyDelete(and its needless to say i'm overflowing with jealousy he he :) )
Anonymous @Uni
thanx dear..
ReplyDeleteI wanna share my moments with all of you out there and that keeps me writing this blog..
Dont be jealous..you yourself is living in a beautiful country. It is just that we don`t see the beauty cz we are always seeing it in day to day life..
There may be no snow in SL but we have golden beaches instead..
Every country has its own unique beauty.. :) nothing is better than any other.. They all are incomparable.. :))
I miss Sri Lanka..!!!
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