Blue Pond – Japan

Blue Pond is a manmade pond that can be found on the left bank of the river Bieigawa in the Shirogane of Biei Town, Kamikawa District on the Japanese island Hokkaido. It's also known as "Shirogane Blue Pond" and "Biei Blue Pond". Blue Pond was made even more famous when Apple used Blue Pond as the wallpaper in its latest operating system.

Blue Pond

The blue pond of Hokkaido

Biei blue pond isn't a naturally-formed pond. This is a pond that was created by a dam to protect the area. Due to their proximity to Mount Tokachi's volcanoes, mud flooding can occur anywhere. To prevent flooding from occurring, officials built a dam downstream of the Bieigawa River after the volcano erupted in December 1988.

Mount Tokachi Blue Pond – This turquoise pond is created by all the water that has been blocked by the dam and changing flow patterns. Scientists discovered that the unique blue color of the lake is due to the high aluminum content of Shirahige Falls' water. This water flows from Mount Tokachi and mixes with the waters in the Bieigawa River. The sulfur and limestone components in spring water are also deposited into white rock and riverbed sand. Contrary to the blue sky and the surrounding rocks, the mysterious blue is combined.

Hokkaido Blue Pond

Blue pond is a unique attraction that features a blue pond with striking blue color and barren stumps sticking out above the water. The pond's color is not permanent. This pond can produce a variety of colors depending on the season and the angle from which it is viewed. Blue Pond can emit a bright blue depending on the light and viewing angle. This looks almost like an aqua blue. The unusual phenomenon is still attractive to many. Some theories suggest that Blue Pond's unique properties are due to high levels of aluminum hydroxide.

Blue Pond of Hokkaido – These natural minerals can sometimes fluoresce under long-wavelength ultraviolet radiations. Kent Shiraishi, a Japanese photographer, took pictures of the blue pond of Hokkaido, and an avid fan of the strange ponds. He took many Blue pond Biei photos during the first snowfall in November 2013 and uploaded them to his Facebook page, which would leave anyone stunned.

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Blue Pond Hokkaido

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Blue Pond Japan

IN SPRING SEASON

Although it is cold outside, the waters of pond blue form an ice rink. A panoramic view of the pond from the melting snow. The frosty landscape is a sign of spring, with green shoots beginning to emerge in the forest.

SUMMER

Blue Pond is more vibrant during the summer, which brings fresh and cool days. The blue color of the blue lake Hokkaido is guaranteed as long as it doesn't rain. This makes summer the most beautiful and highest season of the year. At this time the Blue pond area becomes congested.

AUTUMN

Mount Tokachi, snowfall in October. There is little time to enjoy the view of autumn at the blue pond of Hokkaido on Mount Tokachi. The surrounding red-leaf and yellow-leaf forests reflecting on Blue Lake are a stunning sight worth contemplating.

IN WINTER SEASON

Blue Pond Hokkaido Winter: is closed for visitors in winter. However, the stunning image of the pond covered with white snow and dim lights adds to its charm. Photographers are tempted to come here in bad weather.

The ultimate beauty of "Biei Shirogane Blue Pond" is that it was adopted by Apple Inc. as wallpaper. Japanese photographer "Kent Shiraishi-san", which was adopted as one of the 15 types of wallpapers for Apple's OS X Mountain Lion released in July 2012. It is used to promote and promote the MacBook Pro Retina display model and is acclaimed by Apple staff as "the most beautiful screen in the world we have ever made" in front of developers from all over the world. is. It is also used in iOS 7 such as iPhone.