Japan is a mountainous country and we have a lot of dams all around the islands. Hokkaido is not the exception. I think dam is a great invention because it can be used both for power generation and impoundment. Sure it is largely affected by weather, it is way more safer than nuclear power plants and cleaner than thermal power stations. In many cases, there are some villages submerged by a dammed-up river and when the river is dried up, they sometimes appear with abandon buildings and roads. This bridge is one of them. It used to be a railroad bridge more than fifty years ago and it is now called a phantom bridge because it is usually under water. Fortunately or unfortunately, we can see it more often these days because of the less precipitation maybe related to the global warming weather. When I visited, it was standing heavily weathered and it looked like ancient Roman ruins.
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