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Ouchi-Juku / Minamiaizu

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Ouchi-juku

Travel / Tourism

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto

O-uchi-juku was designated an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 1981. It was founded around 1640 as the third post station from Aizu Castle town in the 130 kilometer road connecting Aizu Castle and Imaichi, Nikko City in Tochigi Prefecture. The townscape remains as is, taking visitors back in time to the Edo period. There are also night tours available from the end of April to late November.
Roadside Station Tajima

4.0

56 Reviews

Transportation

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Itozawa Oga Numawara 3242 - 6

A roadside station standing along National Route 121 in Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The station sells fresh, local, seasonal mountain and farm vegetables, local sakes, and a wide variety of other goods. You can enjoy asparagus soft serve ice cream in the light meal area. The station sees many local residents as well as tourists exploring the Oku-aizu area on foot.

塩原温泉から国道400号を走り、国道121号に合流し山王トンネルを抜けて会津若松方面へ向かって少し走ると、道路の左側にあります。アスパラソフトが名物のようですが、寒くて今回は食べませんでした。トマトも名産だそうです。
Ouchi-Juku Pavilion

4.0

44 Reviews

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Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 8

A facility located in the almost exact center of Ouchi-juku a 15 minute drive by car from Yunokami-Onsen Station which contains presents the lifestyle lived in the area during Japan’s era of post station towns. Ouchi-juku’s honjin, or troop headquarters, was one of the strongholds along the Shimotsuke Kaido highway built in the early Edo period, and was used by the lords of Aizu Domain when travelling to and from the capital of Edo. This honjin was remodeled into the Ouchi-Juku Pavilion. The hall provides information on areas as such as the lord’s exclusive entranceway, jodan-no-ma raised floor room, bath, and thatched roof, as well as exhibits presenting the tools and other items people once used here as part of everyday life. In addition, firewood is continually lighting in the building’s traditional sunken hearth year-round as part of measures necessary to keep the thatch roof in good working order.

大内宿の問屋本陣を復元した建物でちょっとした資料館になっています。規模は小さいですが、大内宿のことがいろいろと回折されていますので、取り敢えず最初に行くといいと思います。
Roadside Station Shimogo

3.5

39 Reviews

Transportation

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Nagurasawa Koizumi 844-188

A roadside station located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Here you can buy wood crafts and local specialty products. In the station's restaurant, you can enjoy handmade soba noodles created with high quality buckwheat flour or a rice bowl topped with Aizu jidori chicken. A perfect place to take a break, the station also has an observatory from which you can enjoy the vast, seasonal natural beauty of the Minamiaizu area.

概要：テラス席なら愛犬同伴可能な福島県下郷町にある道の駅・レストラン・カフェ。地元の食材で作られた美味しいソフトクリームが愛犬同伴で楽しめます。道の駅しもごうは、福島県下郷町にある道の駅です。下郷町と白河市を結ぶ国道289線の甲子トンネルの西側に位置します。近くには観音沼森林公園が、少し走ると奇岩で知られる「塔のへつり」と茅葺き屋根の並ぶ「大内宿」があります。愛犬対応状況ですが、テラス席な...
Magariya Shiryokan

4.0

32 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Maezawa 337

This village in Maezawa, Minamiaizu Town was selected as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 2011. It features 19 traditional homes including 13 chumon-zukuri magariya, a style of L-shaped farmhouses characteristic of the Tohoku region. The village, which is still actively inhabited, is a well-preserved example of a landscape from a bygone era. The village is open to visitors from late April to around mid-November.

人が住んでいるため入れるのは民俗を伝える曲家資料館。人が住んでいるため他の家には入れません。民家なので庭先など入らないように配慮し、歩道を歩いて見て回ります。広くはないので15分もあれば回れる広さです。
Roadside Station Ban-ya

3.5

18 Reviews

Transportation

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Banquet 4

A roadside station located in Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Located at the entranceway to the lush and expansive Oze area, the station sells local specialty products such as akakabu-zuke red turnip pickles and Alpine leeks. The station also has a restaurant area where you can eat juwari soba noodles made with buckwheat grown in the harsh temperature changes of the area, soba-kaki dumplings, and gyoza pot stickers made with Alpine leeks.

国道３５２号下り方面北側の小さめな道の駅。向いはポツンと一軒家状態。電波は４本立っています。洋式トイレは温水洗浄機能なし。用を済ませたらトットと立ち去ると良いでしょう。
Oze National Park

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Gunma prefecture, Tochigi prefecture, Fukushima prefecture, Niigata prefecture

This is the largest high wetland in Honshu also known as the motif of a nationally beloved song, Natsu-no Omoide (“Summer Memories”). It is the 29th national park in Japan and includes Ozegahara. It is home to animals and plants unique to wetlands such as mizubasho (lysichiton americanum or asian skunk cabbage), iris setosa (arctic iris) and ermine as well as alpine plants such as day lilies and gentiana thunbergii. As the whole park area is formed by mountains such as Mt. Kasagatake, Mt. Shibutsu and Mt. Hiuchigatake, climbing equipment and clothes suitable to the season are indispensable. There are three campgrounds in the area and two visitor centers, and it is a base for walking and climbing.
To-no-Hetsuri

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Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Yagoshima Shimoji forest

A cliff located in Okawa Hatori Prefectural Nature Park in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The area has many natural rock formations which visitors can view up close thanks to a nearby suspension bridge. The cliff was also selected as a National Natural Monument in 1943. Many visitors come here to enjoy the area's seasonal scenery.
Tadami Town Beech Center “Tadami Beech and River Museum”

4.0

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi

A museum attached to the Tadami Town Beech Center. Centered around the theme of Tadami town's beech trees and nature they provide permanent exhibition in the Panorama Theater as well as screening of videos and display of local Tadami town flora and fauna specimens. Four times a year they hold special exhibitions in the second-floor hall.

こちらの入館料を払うと、ふるさと館田子倉も見学できます。ふるさと館田子倉では、田子倉ダム建設で沈んだ集落の写真が展示してあり大変興味深かったです。
Okuaizu Museum

3.5

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Itozawa Nishi Sawayama 3692-20

This museum collects and exhibits materials historical, folk cultural, and natural history materials with a goal of conveying the appeal of Okuaizu region's nature, culture, and history. The facility, which first opened in 2004, changed to its current name in 2009. Its collection of around 24,000 items includes many folk crafts and tools that were used for hundreds of years. 5,058 of the items in the collection have been designated as National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties. Around 3000 items are currently on display.

博物館の中に昔の農耕具などが展示されているだけかと思いきや、かやぶき屋根のちょっとした集落のようなところも見学出来て、藍染めなどの体験ができるようでした。ちなみに、展示館以外に再現されているのは、馬宿、染屋、旧猪俣家住宅、旧山王茶屋です。このうち旧山王茶屋はレストランになっているので、食事をするのであれば、無料で入れます。
Hinoemata Village History Folk Museum

3.0

2 Reviews

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura

This museum introduces the history and way of life of Hinoemata Village as well as the nature of Oze. The first-floor features exhibits including hunting equipment, old folk crafts, wooden products, costumes used in the village's kabuki theater performances, and taxidermy animal specimens. The second-floor features exhibits such as fishing equipment and everyday articles that teach visitors about the wisdom for everyday life of the people of the past.

福島県の秘境、檜枝岐村へドライブで行きました。新潟県から入るルートを選択。奥只見シルバーラインで奥只見湖。そこから檜枝岐村に沼田街道３５２号線で行きました。道中は細い道が続きますので運転に自信が無い方は福島県から入った方が良いです。檜枝岐村は街道沿いに広がります。村役場の横に檜枝岐村歴史民俗資料館があります。国道からちょっと横に入ります。開館前でしたので入場なし。檜枝岐村は温泉もあり。自然いっぱい...
Forest Branch School Fuzawa

4.0

1 Reviews

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi Fuzawa Okubo 544

This facility located inside of a former elementary school offers guests the opportunity to stay overnight and experience life in a mountain village. Guests can stay overnight in former classrooms and experience different aspects of mountain village through activities in and around the Fuzawa and Sakata communities. Some of these activities include valley hiking in the Megumi no Mori, trekking in the Iyashi no Mori, farming experiences in the communities, and charcoal making experiences.

恵みの森の沢歩き、癒しの森のトレッキング 4時間半の山歩きを終えて予約しておいた森林の分校ふざわでおばちゃん手打ち蕎麦と山の幸ここは宿泊、山村暮らし体験、田舎の手料理が楽しめます恵の森、癒しの森はガイドツアーもやっているので、初めての方はそちらを利用すると良いと思います只見の山を楽しむ基地としてお勧めします
Sanjo Falls

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Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunhinoematamura Mount Mt.

"This waterfall on the border of Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures has been selected as one of Japan's top 100 waterfalls. The falls are on the Tadami River that flows from the Ozegahara Marshland to Lake Okutadami, and a popular trekking route connects it with Hiraname-no-taki Falls. The area's so beautiful that it's been said ""A visit to Ozei isn't complete without seeing Sanjo Falls and Ayamedaira marshlands"" Registered with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, Oze is one of Japan's premier high-altitude marshlands. Used as a base for mountain climbing, it's part of Oze National Park, which covers a vast area spanning four prefectures."
Kawai Tsuginosuke Memorial Hall

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi Shiozawa

A memorial hall in Uenodai, Shiozawa, Tadami Town, Minamiaizu County. On display are exhibits related to Kawai Tsuginosuke, a retainer for Echigo Nagaoka, who fell in Shiozawa, Tadami during the Boshin War at the end of the Edo Period. Materials include documents related to the novel Toge by author Shiba Ryotaro about the life of Kawai Tsuginosuke as well as the House where Kawai Tsuginosuke Met his Demise, the reconstructed house of village doctor Yazawa Soeki where he passed away. It is closed in winter from mid-November to late April.
Aizu-Tajima Gion Kaikan

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Otsubo 30-1

A museum on Okurairi Street in Otsubo, Tajima, Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County. On display are materials and exhibits related to the Aizu Tajima Gion Festival, a tradition which stretches back over 800 years. A special portable shrine that shows the features of the four portable shrines that are used during the festival and a series of dolls showing the procession reproduce the particulars of the festival in realistic fashion. There's also a buffet serving local home cooking using local ingredients, a restaurant serving traditional local cuisine, an a shop.
Toden Oze Bridge

Travel / Tourism

Niigata Uonuma-shi

A wooden bridge located within Oze National Park, Japan's largest mountainous wetland. The bridge crosses the border between Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures and is a great place to get a glimpse of Asian skunk cabbage. You can see a variety of flowers that Oze is known for including marsh-marigolds and Helleborine orchids. Oze is in an area with heavy snowfall and is also one of Japan's leading plant repositories. Over 900 different species have been confirmed growing in the natural conditions such as wetlands, swampland, and rocky terrain.
Hiraname Falls

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura Hiuchigatake

This falls is along the Tadamigawa River where it flows from the east edge of Osegahara northward. As its name (“smooth slide”) implies, it flows down 400 meters from a massive rock as if sliding down a hill. This shows that the river, which seems to at first glance to flow through a flat landscape, so that one cannot tell where it comes from, is actually flowing down a gentle slope. About a kilometer farther down the river is Sanjo Falls, chosen as one of the Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls. It appears to be more powerful than Hiraname Falls. Certain sections of the riverbank can be extremely muddy, so walkers need to be fully prepared.
Koyasu Kannon

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Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi

A Buddhist temple in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The temple's Kannon-do hall stands on hill with a sweeping view of the thatched roof homes of the Ouchi-juku post station district. The temple hall is normally closed but a festival is held once a year when the Buddhist image inside is displayed to the general public. The temple is dedicated to the protection of children and women and many worshippers come here to pray for children, safe childbirth, and healthy child growth.
Yunokami-Onsen Station

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Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Shimogomachi Yuno Kamioshima Otsu 74

An Aizu Railway, Aizu Line station located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The station is one of only two in the country with a thatched roof like that of an old-fashioned Japanese home. The station's waiting area has an irori sunken hearth and other old-fashioned accoutrements and the hearth is kept lit for visitors when staff are working. The station was selected as one of the 100 best stations in the Tohoku region in 2002 and is visited by many tourists.
Lake Tagokura

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Fukushima Pref. Minamiaiduguntadamimachi Tagokura

An artificial lake created by the construction of Tagokura Dam located on the Tadami River in Tadami Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Famous for its char fishing, many fishing lovers come here to enjoy this freshwater fish treasure trove. A paid sightseeing boat, the Blue Lake, also plies the waters. In fall, the autumn foliage of the area reflects beautifully off the surface of the lake, and many tourists visit here to enjoy the sight.

Fukushima Ouchi-Juku / Minamiaizu

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