Kappa Bridge

...The name of Kamikochi was once written as Kamikawachi or Kamikawachi, indicating a basin, but in the official documents of the Matsumoto Domain at the end of the Edo period it was written as Kamikochi, and since the Meiji period it has been written in the same way on the topographical maps of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. The altitude near Kappa Bridge is 1,560m, and the average temperature in August is 19.7°C, with the average daytime maximum temperature being around 22°C, almost the same as the temperature in Tokyo in late May, making it a different world where you don't feel the heat even in midsummer. However, the winters are bitterly cold, with the average temperature in January being -7.7°C, and the minimum temperature from December to March being below -15°C for many days, and the amount of snowfall reaching 1 to 2m. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kappa Bridge" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…上高地の地名はかつては盆地を示す神河内，上河内と書かれていたが，幕末の松本藩の公文書には上高地と書かれ，国土地理院の地形図にも明治以来同様な表記になっている。河童（かつぱ）橋付近の標高は1560mであり，8月の平均気温は19.7℃，日中の平均最高気温が22℃程度で，東京の5月下旬の気温とほぼ等しく，真夏でも暑さを知らない別天地である。しかし，冬の寒さはきびしく，1月の平均気温は－7.7℃で，12月から3月までの最低気温は－15℃以下の日々が続き，積雪量は1～2mに達する。…

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