The “Snow Highway”

Still in Japan, which happens to be mentioned very often on my blog…

Photos of Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. (via)

“The route, which links the Tateyama and Omachi municipalities, is a tourist destination. Where the road passes through the Hida Mountains, monolithic walls of packed snow bound either side of the motorway. The 20-meter-high corridor was sculpted using snowblowers and backhoe. The path was completed in 1981 and continues to draw tourists, actually only tourists—the road only services charter buses of gawking visitors—to this day.”

xx,

Valentina