Portal Images

[inobu]

Does anyone have details of this portal, its location or one like it? looking for a closer picture  

 

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Inobu

[bikkuri bahn]

Could you tell us the source of the picture? If a recently taken picture, perhaps somewhere on either the Kyushu shinkansen line or the northern end of the Tohoku shinkansen line.  I also think in a more populated lowland area, note the rice fields in the foreground as well as the factory/warehouse on the hillside location.  I suspect a not too long tunnel that parallels the hill/mountain ridgeline and skirts the edge of farm property.  I am not a botanical expert, but there is a clump of the ubiquitous Japanese cedar, therefore it could be almost anywhere south of Hokkaido.

[inobu]

Good call! It is from a blog (2008)and it is filed in Hokkaido » Sapporo section. It is a picture taken en route but nothing else is said about it.

 

actual link http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/2856711

 

I think it is an ideal portal for via duct. Curious in the details, looks like stairs and the windows almost like a station or something.  

 

Thanks for the response.

 

Inobu    

[bikkuri bahn]

I found it.  It is the Nanbuyama Tunnel SW(?) portal.  First tunnel after Hachinohe Station in the Shin-Aomori direction.  Picture taken from the parallel 1067mm line, I suppose.  Here is the wikimapia view:

 

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.5342365&lon=141.4463997&z=16&l=0&m=b

 

I can't find any pics yet of this particular portal, but the other side seems to have some some records (looking in the direction of the Takadate Tunnel):

 

[bikkuri bahn]

Here are some shots of the tunnel portal during construction in 2004 (no. 7 is the portal itself, no. 8 view from above looking in the Tokyo direction):

 

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~merry/hachinohe/hachinohe200409.html

 

Later view in 2007, no. 2 and no. 3:

 

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~merry/hachinohe/hachinohe200712.html#3.

[inobu]

You are the man!!!

 

Thanks a lot. 

 

Really appreciate it.

 

 

Inobu

[Bernard]

Great link! It is an unusual portal design, was it do deduce "tunnel boom"?

[bikkuri bahn]

Great link! It is an unusual portal design, was it do deduce "tunnel boom"?

 

Likely, plus this is (somewhat) snow country, would be good to have a bit of an extension from the hillside.

[inobu]

Great link! It is an unusual portal design, was it do deduce "tunnel boom"?

 

Good question, looks like a flash suppressor on the end of a muzzle.

 

Inobu

[scott]

Inobu--did you want this to become a thread for "reference pictures" of portals? That seems like a good idea.

[inobu]

 

Inobu--did you want this to become a thread for "reference pictures" of portals? That seems like a good idea.

 

yes, good reference point.

 

Inobu