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Title: Kurobe-gawa (1926)

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida

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A view of the Kurobe River on a bright summer day. Clear blue water rushes over and around scattered rocks as the river passes through Kurobe Gorge; on either side, green trees crowd close together down the steep slopes of the ravine, stopping at the stony riverbank. Up ahead, bright sunlight illuminates the wall of the gorge, but in the foreground, the angle of the sun and the high walls of the gorge keep the river in cool shadow.

Looking downstream in the Kurobe Gorge in Toyama Prefecture in Japan.

#日本 #黑部谷 #富山県 #japan #KurobeGorge #toyama

One of the engines from the Kurobe Gorge Railway.

I gather the railway was built for the construction of the Kurobe Dam, and then turned over to tourist use on completion of the dam.

The green sign on the front says that it is a sister railway with the Alishan Railway in Taiwan.

#黒部峡谷 #黒鉄 #日本 #japan #KurobeGorge #railway

Steam hanging like an apparition over the geothermal hot water fountain in the main square outside the station at #UnazukiOnsen after returning from #KurobeGorge. A fun #Night #Photo experiment for #DayAndNight 2019 #Photography in #Japan.

A night image of an approximately three meter circular fountain with a tall vertical central jet, surrounded by several smaller vertical jets. Above it, a cloud of heated steam hangs, like a shroud. The fountain is surrounded by cobblestones, and the background is lit with globular street lights.

Still #Day in this #DayAndNight 2019 #Photo from #KurobeGorge, #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan but closer to my wheelhouse of geometry and dark. There's several of these tunnels to walk through, after leaving the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain. This one provided the best #Photography options. As always, I’m in awe of #Japanese civil engineering.

A concrete tunnel, with a tiny patch of light at the end. There are alternating bands of light and dark running around the tunnel, marking the location of each wall-mounted fluorescent tube lighting fixture. There is a central drainage grille running down the centre of the tunnel’s floor.

Because why wouldn't you build your hydro-electric infrastructure to resemble European mediaeval fortresses? Another #Day #Photo from #Japan 2019 #DayAndNight #Photography, again from the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain at #KurobeGorge, #UnazukiOnsen. #Japanese architectural tastes are so much fun, and this town has strong Swiss Chalet style in places, presumably for the skiers. The haze, and shallow depth of field feel a bit like an old film photo.

A… I don’t know what to call it. It’s a small European castle in the river, joined to the much higher bank by a bridge. I assume it’s for part of the hydroelectric infrastructure, but it’s a castl, in bright turquoise water, the far side of the gorge is almost to the top of the frame. On the far left, is the concrete structure of the tunnel the tourist train is travelling through periodically along the line.

The next #Day and next #Photo in #DayAndNight #Photography 2019, is from the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain at #UnazukiOnsen. The brilliant turquoise water, I think is from the sediment of the white rock from which the area is composed. #KurobeGorge is #Japan's deepest valley, and has this wonderful little train, used for the construction of the hydroelectric project, but now a #Japanese tourist attraction. The season is just starting to turn to Autumn, as you can see in the colour of the trees.

A Lake formed by the Kurobe Gorge hydroelectric system. Green and turning red trees fill the sides of the picture, a bright yellow string of buoys crosses the bright turquoise water. A vivid red bridge is in the centre of the picture.

First #Night #Photo of my 2019 #DayAndNight #Photography of #Japan. The main square in #UnazukiOnsen, a delightful mountain town, known for #Skiing, a multitude of public #Bronze #Sculptures, and #KurobeGorge. I couldn't resist a long exposure of the little train that brought us up from the coast, through the valley's farmland. The streetlight is just the right size to match the scale of the moon. My technical OCD is pinging about the station entrance being overexposed, but I can live with it :)

#KurobeGorge

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