Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Fully Opens For Spring Sightseeing Season

TATEYAMA, JAPAN - APRIL 16: Tourists take photographs of the 19-metre-tall snow walls near Murodo, the highest point of the Tateyama Kurobe Apline Route which is fully opens on April 16, 2015 in Tateyama, Toyama, Japan. More than 1 million people visited in 2010, a figure that has not been reached since then. An estimated 910,000 tourists went last year. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line connecting Toyama Station with Tokyo Station on March 14, the operator of the sightseeing route anticipates that more than 1 million people will visit before the scenic mountain roadway closes at the end of November. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)