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A photograph showing high walls of snow lining the edges of a highway has been circulating on the Internet since at least 2007. Popular memes have claimed (for humorous effect) that the picture was taken in Massachusetts, or (less homorously) in Canada: The image actually captures a stretch of road near the Japanese city of Towada in Aomori prefecture. The photograph was taken by Mihai Apostu and posted to his blog, A Romanian in Japan, in April 2007: According to a sightseeing guide for the Aomori region of Japan, the Hakkoda Walls are quite a tourist attraction. Heavy snowfalls frequently close the corridor during the winter, but when the spring season approaches the Hakkoda Snowplow Squad gets to work and clears the road: As you can imagine, removing all that snow is no small feat. Here is video showing how something like the Hakkoda Snow Corridor is created:
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