Yuki-no-Otani, which means “Great Valley of Snow.”
We can enjoy a huge snow valley here for 2 months a year between mid-April and mid-June.
This place is a part of Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, which is a mountain route through Japan Alps with 2,000m altitude with various transportations: railways, cable cars, electric busses, highland bus (this photo), ropeway.
Temperature changes 0.6°C per 100m or 0.33°F per 100 feet and it can be increased in a dry condition. This means at 2,000m altitude 12°C colder.
We can enjoy a nice and cool mountain tour in the middle of summer here. It’s a different side of the mountain range from Kamikochi and we can visit both of them at the same time.
The official site of Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route: https://www.alpen-route.com/en/
Article by Shintaro Takagi
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