2450 m high Murodō Station (50 minutes). From Murodō Station, visitors should take the Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus (10 minutes), followed by the Tateyama Ropeway (7 minutes), and finally the Kurobe Cable Car (5 minutes). From the last stop, a 15-minute walk will take visitors to the dam. The whole trip from Toyama Station takes roughly four hours to complete one-way, and costs around 10,000 yen in transportation fees. Various accommodations are available in Murodo area as well as near Tateyama Station, for those too tired to make the trip back down into Toyama City. In popular culture The novel The Sun of Kurobe (黒部の太陽; Kurobe no Taiyō) dramatizes the construction of the dam. It was adapted into the 1968 film The Sands of Kurobe. The television series Project X: Chôsensha tachi (2000-2005) was also based on the dam's construction. The final arc of the 2004 Tetsujin 28-go anime, which takes place in a fictionalized 1950s Japan, heavily involves the construction of the Kurobe Dam. The 1961 kaiju film Mothra includes an action sequence filmed at the dam before its completion. Mothra's attack causes the dam to break. Kurobe dam can be seen in the 1964 film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Kurobe Dam features prominently in the opening scene of the 1966 film Gamera vs. Barugon, in which Gamera attacks the facility’s hydroelectric plant to obtain energy in the form of fire. The dam itself then bursts after Gamera collides with it twice while flying away. The 2000 action thriller Whiteout was shot in and around Kurobe Dam, renamed Okutowa Dam in the film. The mecha anime television series Kuromukuro (2016) is mainly set in a UN research facility located around the lake. See also Kurobe Gorge Railway Kurobe Senyō Railway List of power stations in Japan References External links Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route official website 1963 establishments in Japan Arch dams Dams completed in 1963 Dams in Toyama Prefecture Energy infrastructure completed in 1973 Hida Mountains Hydroelectric power stations in Japan Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Kurobe, Toyama