Is a drift ice also seen in Niigata? You introduce charming sights "Yukinagare" time of Uonuma and a scenic area in spring with Uonuma tourist attraction 7 election

2026 The latest local information is this.

[Information] if it's in the scenery of the Yukinagare like an ordinary year, it seems not to have that because the water level of the Aburuma River dam doesn't fall in 2026. Please accept it beforehand.

The Uonuma city which is still the winter midst. When this severe winter ends, and spring is met, do you know that the very beautiful view is seen?

That's "Yukinagare (Yukinagare)".

"It seems to be a drift ice in Hokkaido!" and, many people surge recently, and it's tourist attraction in Uonuma.

This "Yukinagare" is introduced this time.

Time of the Yukinagare and a scenic area will be explained with tourist attraction 6 election in Uonuma.

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Is the water level of the dam conclusive evidence? With Yukinagare? By all means it looks like a drift ice, will it be?

The natural phenomenon it's possible to judge as Yukinagare at a Aburuma River (it's warmed over a fire, oh, the side) dam.

The group of the snow floats on a dam lake, and it's possible to see the scenery just like the drift ice.

Mechanism of Yukinagare occurrence

Why is the group of the snow floating down "Yukinagare" like a drift ice? That has a mechanism of the following occurrence.

1. When winter comes, nearly about 4 m of Yuki estimates in a Aburuma River dam.

2. When spring is becoming hot weather, Yuki who estimated in a surface of the water in a dam breaks.

3. While snow is still left in a surface of the water, a great deal of meltwater flows into a dam.

4. The water level of the dam rises and a great deal of Yuki who was estimating appears in a surface of the water as "the group of the snow".

This, the phenomenon on which "the group of the snow floats like a drift ice" is called "Yukinagare"!

"Yukinagare" introduction video

Many people also visit Uonuma city from a prefecture as well as out the prefecture around the beginning of April Yukinagare generates-middle ten days.

To be seen, only 2 weeks! While Yukinagare is nascent.

Yukinagare is seen around the beginning of ordinary year April-middle ten days. But to do the neighborhood by the weather situation of its year. It isn't generated in case of small snow.
"The rule of thumb would like to know when to go out this year!" please consult below at such time.

The occurrence rule of thumb of the Yukinagare is checked.

It can be confirmed how long water is collected in a Aburuma River dam at present on the Web site of a Niigata river disaster prevention information system.

It's possible to guess at confirmed cases by its quantity of water.

Quotation origin:Niigata river disaster prevention information system dam crossing figure [Aburuma River dam]

There is "service water capacity" enclosed by a red square in the page. Please compare a lower table with the service water capacity.

※ Confirmed cases will be the rule of thumb thoroughly, so try mixing with actual local photograph in this page.

Service water capacity	Confirmed cases (the rule of thumb)
50-60%	It's starting a little.
70-80%	The group of the snow is increasing gradually, and the impression comes out.
90-100%	It becomes filled with water, a bridge, the distance of the surface of the lake becomes close, so it's most powerful.

※ The Yukinagare which had begun to occur once goes off at 50-about 60 % of time. The water level is to rise and Yukinagare occurs once again.

Confirmation of service water capacity is this.▶Niigata river disaster prevention information system

"Yukinagare" the favor when appreciating it

I have had a person of word-of-mouth communication and media take up Yukinagare, and there are many customers every year.

The following cooperation, please, so that everybody who came can appreciate the scenery happily safely.

1. I don't enter a dangerous place. When it's climbed on the snow, there is danger which falls to a dam.
2. A car isn't parked in the location of no parking. Please don't park to in the site in an inn of on the bridge and the neighborhood and a house and the place which becomes obstruction of passing.
3. I'll bring trash home certainly. Please don't throw into a dam lake by all means.

That Yukinagare is seen, "Aburuma River dam"! How should I go?

The "Aburuma River dam" where Yukinagare is seen is at the place where number 252 of national highway is called the way and the Oshirakawa area where I entered a prefectural highway to the Fukushima prefecture district.

An address: Niigata Uonuma city Oshirakawa Aburuma River (it's warmed over a fire, oh, the side) dam
Access: It's a car more than Kan-etsu Expressway "Uonuma IC", about 50 minutes

If Yukinagare is seen, I'll go here! Scenic area of Recommendation

I don't say that Yukinagare is seen everywhere when it's around the Aburuma River dam.

Yukinagare has the "scenic area" where a superb view can be enjoyed.

PDF in a scenic area can be downloaded from the following, but I'll explain conversantly about each scenic area.

Download is this▶.[MAP] Yukinagare scenic area map

Scenic area(1)

A red bridge is Asakusa big bridge of a mark and. Here is a basic point. It's possible to look the whole dam around!

Scenic area(2)

While it's a slope to the Asakusayama cottage which is immediately near the dam. It's possible to look deep red Asakusa big bridge and Yukinagare around!
※ When it's snowy and is a snow wall, it isn't seen.

Scenic area(3)

Around the shelter place in the front where I arrive at a dam and the place where I went through the tunnel. The spot seen to the inside in a dam. When it's seen to the mountainside, light in the sun is reflective and beautiful!

Good has every time respectively.

Asahi responds to snow in the morning, and, a KIRAKIRA blaze.

The sun rises at noon, and snow is seen in three dimensions.

Snow is compared with the sunset in the evening and is orange.

A starry sky in the whole sky and the Yukinagare lit up by moonlight spread in the evening.

Yukinagare and starry sky TAIMURAPUSU

A photographer: Hoshino Mr. osuki (Instagram:@NaturalUni).

How was the past seen? The state of the Yukinagare in 2025

How does Yukinagare look real?

I'll introduce the state of the Yukinagare in 2025 from here. Yukinagare could be enjoyed lengthily compared with an ordinary year in 2025.

A photo date: March 11, 2025

The water level falls. There is about 4 m of snow wall around the dam.

A photo date: March 27, 2025

It was rising, but the water level is still. One near the dam has begun to break.

A photo date: April 1, 2025

There is a group of the snow in a surface of the water, so it's possible to see Yukinagare. When I go in this state, the Yukinagare which lacks around next week's end (the 12th and the 13th) from time (5 or 6 days) and is powerful this weekend seems seen.

A photo date: April 8, 2025

I hit upon the big snow group. The water level is also rising a little.

A photo date: April 17, 2025

The big group is collected around the bridge.

A photo date: April 22, 2025

It's possible to see the group of the snow around the scenic area(3) and the center.

A photo date: April 28, 2025

A block of snow in the surface of the lake has disappeared. I'll disappear without the group's of the snow seen from a point(3) breaking.

Clothes? Is a normal tire OK? FAQs about Yukinagare

By what kind of clothes should the time which passes to see Q: Yukinagare pass?
Even if I say A: spring, the time when Yukinagare is seen is snowy and is left in the neighborhood. It's often also arranged under a wind in particular on the bridge.
Long sleeve trousers + outerwear (A jacket for winter is best. It may hope adds the occasion for spring to a jacket and that there is a muffler!)
When it's fine, there is also a warm day, so recommendation has a clothes which can be adjusted for a jacket. Stairs are climbed in particular at the time of Yukinagare enjoyment, and there is no sudden climbing.

There is dazzling time by reflection of snow on a fine day, so when there are sunglasses, driving is easy to do.

Even if I go by Q: normal tire, are you ok?
The time A: Yukinagare generates isn't often wiped out on the road surface on the road. When it's the daytime, even a normal tire is no problem.

But, a case with a snowfall, early morning and night sometimes freeze by the weather situation, so please confirm the latest weather situation.

A person from a distant place is also confirming the situation of the road in the middle of going to the Oshirakawa area, and please come in the safe state.

Do you have Q: restroom?

A: The nearest Restroom will be Oshirakawa Station of JR Tadami Line (it's a car from a dam, about 10 minutes) or road station Irihirose (it's a car from a dam, about 20 minutes).

Are there Q:souvenir and restaurant?

There are Accommodation facilities as Asakusayama cottage in the A: site, and Day-use Hot Springs and lunch can be enjoyed. Additionally I also have hand-baked rice crackers of pretty "bamboo grass snowman" and Koshihikari 100% the appearance by which the nearest "road station Irihirose" fits well in souvenir. I also have warm soba.

"Yukinagare" just! Tourist attraction 7 election in Uonuma

1. Asakusayama cottage

Day-use Hot Springs and lunch can be enjoyed by a spot closest from a Aburuma River dam.

Asakusayama cottage original craft beer "YUKINAGA-RU" is also offered!/

◇ Business hours: A reception end call conversantly for the※ business days at 11:00-at 16:30, and please inquire.

TEL:025-796-2331

Details in Asakusayama cottage?Here

2. National important cultural property Meguro house

A residence of the percentage former village headman who could bet and build the time of 1797 (1797) and 1793.

TEL:025-797-3220

Details in Meguro house?Here

3. Echigo Yukikurakan (Tamakawa Sakagura (sake brewery))

A liquor cake and cosmetics are sold in addition to the liquor.

A tour of the storage installation for which snow was used and, so tasting of stored liquor can be enjoyed.

TEL:025-797-2777

Details of Echigo Yukikurakan (Tamagawa Syuzo) are this.

4. Road station Irihirose

Local specialty of Uonuma, vegetables from a local stockbroker and a homemade handicraft are also sold.

Dumpling of the rice flour by which "bamboo grass snowman" used Koshihikari made in Uonuma. Hand-baked rice crackers of Koshihikari 100% and road station in which time spring will also equal the wild vegetable which have been just gathered now.

How about in souvenir?/Time frame limitation! Yukinagare rice crackers

TEL:025-796-2500

Details of road station Irihirose?Here

5. Monozukimura

When wild vegetable can be bought by reasonable prices, the agricultural produce from the local stockbroker who has been just gathered and the spring are popular.

I also recommend a pretty hepatica for time spring. The Buckweat with home-grown buckwheat is also popular.

TEL:025-799-4801

Details of Monozukimura?Here

6. Kamiyu to Fureainosato

There are also Rotenburo (outdoor bath), a sauna, a relaxation room and an eating place at an open hot spring, and it's the Onsen loosed comfortably.

TEL:025-799-3350

Details of Kamiyu to Fureainosato?Here

7. Suwa (make,) Onsen

Day-use Hot Springs where the heated pool is here and is popular with local people, too.

TEL:025-796-3033

Details of Suwa Onsen?Here

3 elections of Accommodation Facilities which is Recommendation for the person who would like to enjoy Uonuma city slowly

There is nice Accommodation Facilities around the Aburuma River dam. I'll introduce 2 this time.

Asakusayama cottage

The inn where the view in a dam is also spectacular (by car, about 4 minutes) nearly number one from a Aburuma River dam.

Activity of proud dish and Day-use Hot Springs is also enriched.

TEL:025-796-2331

Details in Asakusayama cottage?Here

Minshuku Saisichi.

The inn I'll entertain with the cozy atmosphere of the country.

They're proud of a dish of wild vegetable and a mushroom dish.

TEL:025-796-2540

Minshuku Details of Saisichi are this.

Inn Kirakusou.

It's remodeled at the "pub where spring in 2021, Tadami Line and RETORO are a theme where you can stay overnight.

Wild vegetable and mushroom dish can be enjoyed at dear space.

TEL:025-796-2731

Inn Details of Kirakusou are this.

It isn't only Yukinagare! Uonuma in spring, "Setsujyozakura" is also Recommendation!

The thing by which "Setsujyozakura" is the cherry tree which blooms on the snow as the name. The cherry tree scenery the heavy snowfall area Uonuma city which can love winter and spring together.

Snow can be untied at the time when a cherry tree also usually blooms at a snowy district. But snow is left until the time when a cherry tree blooms in the Fukuyama area where snow is deep in particular in the Uonuma city.

Bloom is around the end of of of by the end of ordinary year April. One cherry tree blooms a late season more than every region of the country.

You can also enjoy yourself as "the second time of cherry tree" from the way throughout the country where a cherry tree was enjoyed already every year.

When timing fits, may I be able to enjoy myself according to "Yukinagare"?

※ Yukinagare is a car from seen "Aburuma River dam", and the "Furusato Hiroba of" Fukuyama-toge Pass from which Setsujyozakura is judged is in the distance between about 30 minutes.

Details of Setsujyozakura are this.▶Setsujyozakura of Fukuyama-toge Pass

A summary: I'll enjoy "Yukinagare" and sightseeing by Uonuma city in spring!

I introduced 7 elections of charming sights in Uonuma "Yukinagare" and tourist attraction in spring this time.

Seen time frame is limited to Yukinagare.

Uonuma is visited this chance by all means, and how about enjoying Yukinagare and sightseeing?

Is a drift ice also seen in Niigata? Charming sights "Yukinagare" time of Uonuma and a scenic area in spring are introduced with Uonuma tourist attraction 7 election.