Kurobe Dam
The Kurobe Dam, or Kuroyon Dam, is a 186 m high variable-radius arch dam on the Kurobe River in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The tallest dam in Japan, it supports the 335 MW Kurobe No.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Dam
- Description: Japan’s tallest dam, in Toyama Prefecture
- Also known as: “Kuroyon Dam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kurobeko Station and Kurobe Dam Station.
Kurobeko Station
Railway station
Photo: PekePON, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kurobeko Station is a funicular station in Tateyama, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Kurobeko Station is situated 340 metres west of Kurobe Dam.
Kurobe Dam Station
Transport stop
Photo: Qurren, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kurobe Dam Station is a trolleybus station in Tateyama, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The station offers views of Kurobe Dam, which is the tallest dam in Japan. Kurobe Dam Station is situated 380 metres east of Kurobe Dam.
Kurobedaira Station
Station
Photo: PekePON, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kurobedaira Station is a funicular and cable car station in Tateyama, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Kurobedaira Station is situated 1 km west of Kurobe Dam.
Kurobe Dam
- Categories: arch dam, hydroelectric dam, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Tateyama, Nakaniikawa Gun, Toyama, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.56669° or 36° 34′ 0″ northLongitude
137.66214° or 137° 39′ 44″ eastElevation
1,427 metres (4,682 feet)Inception
1963Height
186 metres (610 feet)Open location code
8Q8VHM86+MVOpenStreetMap ID
way 57033637OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damGeoNames ID
1858256Wikidata ID
Q1208749
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Kurobe Dam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سد كوروبي”
- Bengali: “কুরোবে জলাধার”
- Bengali: “কুরোয়ন জলাধার”
- Cebuano: “Kurobe-damu”
- Chinese: “黑四水库”
- Chinese: “黑四水庫”
- Chinese: “黑部水坝”
- Chinese: “黑部水壩”
- Chinese: “黑部水库”
- Chinese: “黑部水庫”
- Chinese: “黑部湖”
- Dutch: “Kurobe Dam”
- Esperanto: “Akvobaraĵo Kurobe”
- Esperanto: “Kurobe Akvobaraĵo”
- French: “barrage de Kurobe”
- French: “Barrage de Kurobe”
- French: “Kurobe-damu”
- German: “Kurobe 4”
- German: “Kurobe-Talsperre”
- German: “Kuroyon-Talsperre”
- Indonesian: “kurobe dam”
- Italian: “diga di Kurobe”
- Italian: “Diga di Kurobe”
- Japanese: “Kurobe-damu”
- Japanese: “くろべダム”
- Japanese: “黒四ダム”
- Japanese: “黒部ダム”
- Japanese: “黒部湖”
- Korean: “구로베 댐”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “سد كوروبي”
- Nepali: “कुरोबे बाँध”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurobe-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurobegawa vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurobegawa”
- Norwegian: “Kurobe-demningen”
- Polish: “Zapora Kurobe”
- Polish: “Zapora Kuroyon”
- Russian: “Плотина Куробе”
- Russian: “Плотина Куробэ”
- Turkish: “Kurobe Barajı”
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