Ohara Reservoir

What it is

• An earth dam built on the Ohara River for agricultural irrigation.
• Construction began in 1943 as a project to prevent local droughts.
• The facility supplies water to over six hundred hectares of downstream rice fields.
• The site formerly hosted a campsite that opened in 1972 but later closed.

What to see

• A large dam structure standing over twenty-seven meters high.
• The reservoir water system that serves the Yodogawa river network.
• Renovated irrigation facilities and infrastructure updated starting in 2007.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.