Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

[Breaking News]Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

TOTTORI, Japan, Nov. 19 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024. (Kyodo)

E

Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024.

E

Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024.

E

Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024.

E

Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024.

E

Mt. Daisen covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season on Nov. 19, 2024.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky during the national fireworks contest in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2024.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky during the national fireworks contest in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2024.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky during the national fireworks contest in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2024.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky during the national fireworks contest in the Akita Prefecture city of Daisen, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2024.

E

Climbing season begins on Mt. Daisen in western Japan

A ritual is held near the top of the 1,729 meter Mt. Daisen in Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 2, 2024, to pray for the safety of climbers ahead of the summer season.

E

Climbing season begins on Mt. Daisen in western Japan

A ritual is held near the top of the 1,729 meter Mt. Daisen in Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 2, 2024, to pray for the safety of climbers ahead of the summer season.

E

Climbing season begins on Mt. Daisen in western Japan

Climbers walk on Mt. Daisen in Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 2, 2024, as the climbing season begins on the 1,729 meter mountain.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Shogi prodigy Fujii at ceremony

Eight-title-holding shogi player Sota Fujii speaks at a ceremony celebrating his recent defense of the game's most prestigious Ryuo title in Daisen in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2023.

E

Shogi prodigy Fujii at ceremony

Eight-title-holding shogi player Sota Fujii receives a bouquet of flowers at a ceremony celebrating his recent defense of the game's most prestigious Ryuo title in Daisen in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 5, 2023.

E

Mt. Daisen gets season's 1st snowcap

Photo taken on Nov. 13, 2023, shows Daisen National Park Centre, a base for hikers, in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2023, the day that the season's first snowcap was observed on Mt. Daisen.

E

Mt. Daisen gets season's 1st snowcap

The first snowcap of the season is observed atop Mt. Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2023.

E

Autumn colors on Mt. Daisen

People snap photos of autumn-colored leaves covering Mt. Daisen in the Tottori Prefecture town of Daisen, western Japan, on Oct. 31, 2023.

E

Autumn colors on Mt. Daisen

People enjoy a panoramic view of autumn-colored leaves covering Mt. Daisen in the Tottori Prefecture town of Daisen, western Japan, on Oct. 31, 2023.

E

Supercar festival in western Japan

Supercars are exhibited at the inaugural Dream Car Festa event in Daisen in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 30, 2023.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Fireworks in Akita

Fireworks light up the night sky of Daisen, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during the "spring chapter of Omagari fireworks" show on April 29, 2023.

E

Rescued drifters questioned on JCG ship

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Photo taken on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012, shows the Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Daisen anchored off Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture. Three North Korean men in a wooden boat found adrift off Japan's Okinoshima Island the previous day have been questioned aboard the ship.

E

Torrential rain in northeastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 24 Kyodo - Photo taken July 24, 2017, from a Kyodo News airplane shows a collapsed road in the northeastern Japan city of Daisen following torrential rain.

E

Bakery produces hamburger using prickled plum sauce

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A worker at a Kawa bakery chain shop in Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, shows off on Nov. 23, 2014, a hamburger using sauce made from prickled plums of the premier "Kishu Ume" brand, a local specialty. The hamburger won the first prize at the Tottori Burger Festa 2014 competition of hamburgers using local foodstuffs held in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Nov. 8-9.

E

Capybaras enjoy hot bath in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - A pair of capybaras warms themselves in a hot bath, brought from a nearby hot spring facility, at Daisen Tom-Sawyer Pasture in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2014.

E

Infants in ancient costumes parade at west Japan temple

YONAGO, Japan - Many infants clad in ancient costumes walk with their parents in a procession on the approach to the Daisen-ji Buddhist temple on the slopes of the Daisen mountain in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, as part of the temple's autumn festival on Oct. 24, 2014.

E

Tottori urges S. Koreans to submit trekking plans

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a document in Hangul (L) that the Tottori prefectural government sent to South Korean travel companies, telling them their clients must inform the local government of their hiking plans for Mt. Daisen in the western Japanese prefecture, amid an increase in the number of South Korean hikers. On the right is a Japanese translation of the document.

E

Mt. Daisen climbers enjoy alpine plants in full bloom

YONAGO, Japan - Climbers enjoy seeing Mt. Daisen's blossoming alpine plants at their peak near the Utopia Shelter lodge on the east ridge at an altitude of about 1,500 meters in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on July 30, 2014. The 1,729-meter-high mountain is designated as a national park for its magnificent landscape.

E

Beautiful alpine meadow on Mt. Daisen

YONAGO, Japan - A beautiful alpine meadow in full bloom greets climbers near the summit of the 1,729-meter-high Mt. Daisen, a national park, in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on July 30, 2014.

E

Firefly found on mountain top in western Japan

TOTTORI, Japan - Luciola parvula, a species of firefly, is found by a firefly conservation organization on the peak of 1,729-meter-high Mt. Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on July 20, 2014. A DNA test of the firefly will be conducted as part of research on the local ecological system.

E

Heian-style procession in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - People dressed in ancient attire from the Heian era (794-1192) carry a ''mikoshi'' (portable shrine) along the approach of Daisenji, a Buddhist temple in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on May 24, 2014.

E

Winning team performs in masquerade ski event

YONAGO, Japan - A team from Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, performing in the attire of "The Rose of Versailles," a popular "manga" comic series, wins a fancy-costume skiing event held in snowy weather in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2014.

E

Sasebo team places second in fancy-attire skiing event

YONAGO, Japan - A team from Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, performs in a fancy-costume skiing event held in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2014. The team placed second.

E

Shinkansen derailment

DAISEN, Japan - A Japan Transport Safety Board inspector examines the area around a wheel of a bullet train in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on March 3, 2013, that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line the previous day.

E

Shinkansen derailment

DAISEN, Japan - Work is under way in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on March 3, 2013, to restore a bullet train that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line the previous day.

E

Shinkansen derailment

DAISEN, Japan - Passengers walk to buses in the snow in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, past 10 p.m. on March 2, 2013, after getting off a bullet train that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line around six hours earlier.

E

Shinkansen derailment

DAISEN, Japan - Passengers walk to buses in the snow in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, past 10 p.m. on March 2, 2013, after getting off a bullet train that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line around six hours earlier.

E

Shinkansen train derails

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows the front car of a bullet train that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on March 2, 2013. The accident took place on a snowy branch line which shares a regular track with other trains in northeastern Japan. No one was injured in the incident.

E

Shinkansen train derails

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows the front car of a bullet train that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on March 2, 2013. The accident took place on a snowy branch line which shares a regular track with other trains in northeastern Japan. No one was injured in the incident.

E

White starfish at Tottori aquarium

TOTTORI, Japan - A rare white starfish is displayed at Tottori Karo Crab Aquarium in Tottori, western Japan, on Jan. 5, 2012. It was discovered on the coast in the town of Daisen in Tottori Prefecture in November 2011.

E

Snow shoveling by volunteers

YONAGO, Japan - Volunteer workers clear away snow at an elderly person's house in the town of Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, in western Japan, on Feb. 8, 2011. The area has been hit by heavy snow this winter.

E

Snow hits western Japan

DAISEN, Japan - A Ground Self-Defense Force member refuels a car stranded on a snowy road in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2011. Heavy snow blanketed the western Japan region causing about 1,000 motor vehicles to get stuck in traffic.

E

Snow hits western Japan

DAISEN, Japan - Trucks get stuck on a snowy road in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture on Jan. 1, 2011. Snow blanketed a wide area in the western Japan region before New Year's Day.

E

Snow hits western Japan

DAISEN, Japan - Cars get stuck on a snowy road in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture on Jan. 1, 2011. Snow blanketed a wide area in the western Japan region before New Year's Day.

E

Snow hits western Japan

DAISEN, Japan - A train of West Japan Railway Co. is stranded in heavy snow on the track of the Sanin Line in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 1, 2011. Snow blanketed a wide area in the western Japan region before New Year's Day.