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Majestic ice curtains are suspended by the river in the prefecture of Nagano, in central Japan, and impress tourists.
Majestic ice curtains are suspended by the river in the prefecture of Nagano, in central Japan, and impress tourists.
The water flowing from a mountain cliff freezes in huge ice cubes on a bank of the Nishino river in the city of Kiso at that time of the year.
These tapered training courses are known as Shirakawa ice pillars. They can reach collectively 50 meters high and approximately 250 meters wide when they are the largest.
This year, the stalactites began to appear around December 20. The freezing time in recent days has contributed to the creation of this show.
A visitor said she was impressed by the power of nature, because she thinks that these breathtaking walls of ice can never be made artificially.
The operator of an inn of hot sources located nearby has declared that the appearance of ice pillars differs each year, but that a series of cold days like that of this winter is the most conducive to the increase in their size. He added that he hoped that visitors would feel the beauty and hardness of nature.
Visitors can admire ice pillars until mid-February.
