This card is a photo of a section of the Kurobe Gorge  黒部峡谷 . It is a V-shaped canyon located at Kurobe, Japan. It is here where you will find Kurobe Dam  黒部ダム,  a hydroelectric dam, and at 186 metres tall, the highest dam in Japan. The gorge is a part of the Northern Japanese Alps and part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route  立山黒部アルペンルート  is a mountain sightseeing route between Tateyama  立山町  and Ōmachi  大町市.  It was opened in 1971 and is 37 kilometres long, with a difference in elevation as high as 1975 metres.  The route is composed of seven different transportation services using five different modes:  funicular ,  bus ,  trolleybus ,  aerial tramway , and walking. Three transport lines go through  tunnels  to protect them from  snow : one funicular railway and two bus lines. One of the bus lines is the last trolleybus line in Japan, and the other was converted to...