Guess Where This Is

[brit-gob 9]

Wow that sure is an interesting photo!!

[Tubby Beaver 209]

is that a giant bumhole??

[pie-eater 207]

is that a giant bumhole??

 

Hakuba?

 

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Hakuba is too vague to be an acceptable answer.

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Terrain-map view:

 

Hints:

--Looking towards location of previous hint.

--Ski area marked with an "A".

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Hakuba is too vague to be an acceptable answer.

 

So it IS a bum hole

[yamayamayama 2]

Tried to work it out but can't. Looking forward to seeing where it is though.

 

You really post tough ones MO!

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

I hope to make them hard enough to be interesting, but not so hard as to be annoying. Fine line, I fear.

 

Anyway, hint:

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Name hint: Department of Redundant Redundancy Department

[griller 9]

Question: is it actually a skijo?

[@tokyo 14]

Just spent 30 minutes looking through the maps. Stumped!!!

 

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Tsugaike

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Question: is it actually a skijo?

 

Yes, and it is listed on SnowJapan.

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Tsugaike

 

No.

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Terrain-mapped view from another direction:

 

As before, "A" marks the spot.

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Hint:

[Alexander L 80]

is that a giant bumhole??

 

Hakuba?

 

 

Not possible.

 

Bottomless = no bum = no bumhole

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Hint:

[muikabochi 208]

I'm going to sit down and try and work this out later on this morning.

 

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Hint:

[onehunga 26]

Riverwell Ikawa

Shizuoka City, Shizuoka

[1 4]

That sounds like it might be it. I was looking on the other side of Japan!

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Riverwell Ikawa

Shizuoka City, Shizuoka

 

Indeed it is. Shizuoka's "other" ski resort. (After Snow Town Yeti.)

 

Hints:

--The 1964 film "Woman of the Dunes" ("砂の女") was filmed on the sand dunes of Hamaoka, Shizuoka. The upper part of the photo is the bird trap the protagonist attempted to make, which turned out to be more useful as a kind of well, of which the goal of perfecting became one of the mental traps for the protagonist.

--The tiny red/pink shrimp known as sakuraebi are only fished in Japan from Suruga Bay, Shizuoka.

--The name of the ski area could be rendered monolingually as "Riverwell Well River," or "川井井川." (Hence, "Department of Redundant Redundancy Department.")

--Mt. Fuji can be seen in the second terrain-mapped view, as well as from the ski area itself.

--Kenjiro Takayanagi of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, demonstrated the world's first all-electronic television receiver in 1925 at the Hamamatsu Industrial High School. He chose the katakana character "イ" for demonstration, being the first character in the "Iroha" poem. (And also, incidentally, the first syllable in "Ikawa" -- two hints in one!)

--The Oi River, which runs near Riverwell Ikawa ski area, is home to:

----Hatanagi Daiichi Dam, the tallest hollow-core concrete gravity dam in the world;

----Ikawa Dam, the first hollow-core concrete gravity dam to be constructed in Japan; and

----Horai Bridge, the longest wooden walking bridge in the world.

 

Over to you, Onehunga!

[onehunga 26]

OK where is this then?

 

[pie-eater 207]

As always, fantastic work Metabo Oyaji.

It all seems so obvious when you explain it.