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Kurobe COURTESY OF TOYAMA PREFECTURAL GOV'T

Saturday 27th June, 05:00 AM JST

Sightseers walk across a bridge on the Kurobe Gorge railway line in Toyama Prefecture.

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  • irishhighlander at 06:37 AM JST - 27th June

    About the only thing Toyama is good for is the scenery. But the prices to see any of it tear out your wallet. Just to get there even in Toyama costs about 10,000.

  • some14some at 06:41 AM JST - 27th June

    irishhighlander, that's true but Japan is proud of bridges, rail tracks and tunnels. Everything is there in this picture and all for free :)

  • steen at 06:54 AM JST - 27th June

    Are they walking on a railway line? That river's a funny colour.

  • flammenwerfer at 07:55 AM JST - 27th June

    funny colour? no, not at all - that is a very normal colour for a 'snow fed' river, which this river must be - Toyama has lots of big mountains and snow.

  • Sarge at 08:47 AM JST - 27th June

    Very nice picture.

    irishhighlander - Geez, you sure know how to put a damper on things.

  • TeruSensei at 09:41 AM JST - 27th June

    I'd love to visit Toyama sometime, reading about Toyama politics post-Meiji is really quite interesting. They really had to fight hard for their river maintanence and infrastructure, and there were some real characters.

  • pawatan at 10:54 AM JST - 27th June

    irishhighlander, it is not even close to that expensive. It's 1790 yen from Toyama city to the terminus of that railway and 1600yen-ish to take the rail itself. That's nowhere near 10,000 yen.

    In fact, you can get there from Tokyo for 12-13,000yen.

    Anyway, looks lovely - maybe a weekend trip this summer!

  • Smythe at 11:11 AM JST - 27th June

    Good photo & nice view. This looks like a hiking bridge which is something Cdn is slowly getting into.

  • fatfrenchfool at 12:13 PM JST - 27th June

    this place is awesome in autumn

  • shinhiyata at 01:58 PM JST - 27th June

    I thought this bridge was destroyed by Rodan in 1959 ???

  • Disillusioned at 03:27 PM JST - 27th June

    Japan does have some awesome scenery. It's a shame most Japanese have no chance to escape the cities to enjoy it until they retire.

  • humblesamurai at 04:08 PM JST - 27th June

    It`s a fantastic place, a 2 day package costs around 30,000 JPY. including bullet train tickets, buses, 1 night at a hotel, others... Cannot wait to go mid of July.

    http://www.hankyu-travel.com/tour/detaild.php?pcourseid=40608X&phei=10

  • Sarge at 10:08 PM JST - 27th June

    "this sucks"

    It does not.

  • shinhiyata at 09:56 PM JST - 24th October

    Oops. My mistake. It was destroyed by King Ghidorah in 1965.

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