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Hey, I thought most people have settled on the Taiwan theory by now? In that case then yes, definitely the river is the Danshui ('Fresh Water') river that was in Qilian (which is around Taipei but back then it was probably an outlying town.)
That river was called 淡水 <-- meaning "flavorless" "water"
This is why the epitaph calls it 'Sweetfish' ... which is really the fish called Ayu.
鮎 [あゆ] (n) sweetfish (freshwater trout)
I don't know all the places where they live but the river that runs from Gifu up to Shirakawago (the site that Ryukishi picked for Higurashi) definitely had Ayu in them. We had a taste of bbq and sashimi Ayu before. It really is 'sweet', probably because the fish doesn't have a concentration of salt in it like fish from the sea.
Anyways, one of the properties of Ayu is that it is silverish in color. I thought this was supposed to be an analogy for the metal that trains were made out of.
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