Let’s start with a bit of honesty here: Exploring a snowy mountain has never been a part of any of my travel lists. I guess in a way this is why I highly appreciated the uniqueness of my time traversing the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. This route offers a tour of the Japanese Alps; of sights that stretch from Tateyama, Toyama, and then Omachi in Nagano. And of course it is also home to the famous Tateyama Snow Corridor, which looks a little something like this: Coming here makes me appreciate the Japanese’s capacity for making everything so organized. You can see that there has been plenty of meticulous thought…
