Just when I thought the rainy season, with all that heavy rain, had finally ended,
now it’s been nothing but blazing sun, and it’s unbelievably hot (~_~;)
The other day, “Bigo no Mise,” famous for its French bread, reopened in front of Nigawa Station.
At that time, I thought the water in the Nigawa River had gotten really low,
and then on the 18th…
Below Nakatsuhama Line, it was completely dry (^_^;)
Even from the Hankyu Railway tracks, it looked bone-dry!
Just above the Hankyu line too… in the spot where kids had been happily splashing around until very recently,
there was only a tiny puddle,
and two crows looking over at me as if to say with their eyes,
“It’s unbearably hot! We’re black, so you have no idea how hot it is!”
(⌒-⌒; )
As for people,
it no longer feels like a river, but more like a place to play as if it were an athletic playgroundA child is playing there, though hidden behind their mom!
Wait a second!
The spot where the river ends!
The spot where the river water gets absorbed into the riverbed and disappears!
I found it!!
When I got closer,
the grass was so overgrown I couldn’t see it, but from the photo it kind of looks like a beam of light is saying, “It’s right here!” (^O^)／
I made up my mind, pushed through the grass, and this is what I saw!
The location is right around in front of the classical music cafe “Ein Konzert”I think the spot probably changes day by day!
It’s hard to tell from the photo, but there was a trickling stream, and it looked like it was being absorbed into the ground.
Why does the water in the Nigawa River disappear?
Have you heard of a “tenjogawa”, or raised-bed river?
It’s a river whose riverbed has become higher than the surrounding flat land because sand, mud, and other sediment have built up.
The Nigawa River is one of these “tenjogawa,” so when there isn’t much rain, the river’s flow shifts underground, where you can’t see it.
Around Nishinomiya, the lower reaches of the Muko River near the border with Amagasaki,
as well as the Ashiya River, are also “tenjogawa.”
It’s kind of strange to think that roads like the Yamate Kansen pass underneath the riverbed of the Ashiya River (^O^)／
As you go upstream, the Nigawa River changes so much you might want to call it a gorge, so I’ll go cover that another time (^ ^)
