Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route - Murodo - Part 3 of 3

Finally reached the main attraction of Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The place is covered with thick snow although its already middle of the year.


Highest point in Murodo at 2450 metres above sea level.

Walking to snow wall.


Slowly approaching snow wall. Raining and cold.

Thick snow covered the area.




Wow, snow wall. At this point, the wall is probably 6 metres.

Selfie with snow wall.

Touch the snow wall.


Looking toward Tateyama hotel.

Otani point.

Snow wall from Otani point.


Nice snow covered mountain but its raining.

Many people still bracing thru the rain to visit Murodo.

GPS/Coordinate: 36.577258, 137.594797
Ticket price: 9,050 Yen from Ogizawa to Murodo.

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route - Kurobe Dam to Daikanbo - Part 2 of 3

Map showing the way to view Kurobe Dam.

Climbing the stairs to see Kurobe Dam.

Beautiful view of Japanese Alps.


Kurobe Dam. At 1,500 metres above sea level, this dam is the highest arch dam in Japan. The dam is 186 metres tall with 10 cubic metres of water pass thru the dam every second. During summer, the water is discharged from the lake creating a nice view from the dam observation deck.

Not favorable weather when I visited Alpine Route. The stairs are narrow, so be careful. However, the scenery around the dam is beautiful.

Kurobe lake.

Mount Tateyama with snow cap peak on sight.

View of water flow from Kurobe Dam from top of the dam.

Walking path on top of Kurobe Dam to Kurobeko. It is a 15 minutes walk.

A few more steps before reaching Kurobeko station to continue journey via Kurobe cable car.

Kurobe cable car to Kurobedaira.

Unique cable car with stairs inside.

Reached Kurobedaira.

Mountain view of Kurobedaira.

My lens were wet due to heavy rain. Continuing journey via Tateyama Ropeway to Daikanbo.


View of Mount Tateyama covered with snow during the journey via Tateyama Ropeway.

View from Daikanbo.

Flavuored glutinous rice ball from one of the stall in Daikanbo.

Long queue to board Tateyama tunnel trolley bus to Murodo.

Boarding trolley bus to Murodo.

Bright orange trolley bus. The bus running on track with cable attached.

Finally reached Murodo. Read my next last post on Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route about Murodo.

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route - Nagano to Kurobe Dam - Part 1 of 3

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route is a spectacular scenic route over the Japanese Alps which connects Nagano Shinano Omachi with city of Toyama. This area is famous for heavy snow fall during the winter during November to February each year. When the road opens in end of April for visitors, the area road is surrounded by snow wall on both sides. The wall can reach up to 20 metres high during end April and lasted until end of June. Visitors need to take multiple forms of transport includes cable car, ropeway and trolley bus either from from Shinano Omachi or Toyama to reach Murodo which is the main attraction of Alpine route. Along the way, you will be able to view the scenic Kurobe Dam which is the highest altitude dam in Japan. On good day, Murudo is the starting point to climb to the peak of Mount Tateyama. The post below will show you the scenery from my journey in Nagano to Murudo during end of June 2015.


Waking up very early to take the first train to Matsumoto . Try to catch the 5.40am train. At this time, the skies already quite bright during end of June. You need to start the journey early as the trip to Murudo is quite time consuming.

Mountains view from the train.


Paddy fields are everywhere. Very self sustainable country.


Reached Shinano-Omachi station.

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route information guide.


Nice view outside Shinano-Omachi station.

Next you need to purchase bus ticket to Ogizawa.

Waiting for bus to Ogizawa.

This is how the bus to Ogizawa look like.

The bus passed by long stretch of shop houses.

Finally reached Ogizawa.

Heading to the ticket booth to purchase ticket to Murudo (Snow wall).

This is my ticket. It cost me 9,050 Yen.

Kanden Tunnel Trolley bus.

In the trolley bus.

Going thru tunnel.

Arrived Kurobe Dam via trolley bus.

Kurobe Dam.