"Snow corridor" in northeastern Japan

"Snow corridor" in northeastern Japan

Photo taken March 29, 2022, shows a "snow corridor," or walls of snow created every spring to reopen the eight-kilometer section of the Hakkoda-Towada Gold Line, a road linking the northeastern Japan city of Aomori and Lake Towada, after its wintertime closure.

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