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Ouchi-Juku / Minamiaizu

Category

Tokusa Onsen (Rock Bath)

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Miyasato Yuzaka 1986

A communal bath in Miyasato, Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County. Located on the river bank of Nishine River it's a mixed bathing outdoor bath with a covered stone bath right next to nature. Fed by a simple high temperature sulfur spring you can warm up your body's core while enjoy the murmuring of the river. Women's bathing suits are available to rent.
Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Haryu Hirutakiyama 857-150

Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort is a municipal ski resort run by Minami-Aizu township. There are a total of 11 slopes to suit all abilities from beginners to experts. The Daichan Park located near the lodge has a range of children’s play equipment including roller slides etc.; on weekends the resort’s mascot “Dai-chan” makes an appearance here. At the restaurant visitors can enjoy famous local Aizu specialties such as “Sauce Katsudon” (a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried pork cutlet served with Worcestershire sauce) and Shoyu Ramen (ramen noodles served in a broth flavored with soy sauce).
Ouchijuku Bunke Tamaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Gongengami 358

A cafe located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Operating out of an old-fashioned Japanese style home building with a thatched roof, the cafe serves Japanese food and handmade sweets. Particularly popular are the cafe's homemade soba noodles crated with locally grown buckwheat, and its chicken seiro-meshi rice made with chicken and rice steamed in a seiro basket in the cafe's old-fashioned kamado hearth. The restaurant's sweets are also made with local ingredients.
Hinoemata Village History Folk Museum

3.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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...
Yunohana Onsen

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Yunohana 312
Murayu

4.0

1 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Tadamimachi Nagahama

A day-use hot spring bath house with an abundance of free-flowing natural spring water located next to Yurari. The baths are fed by a sodium chloride sulfate spring with a reddish-brown color due to the high iron levels. The spring water promotes general good health and helps with muscle soreness, nerve pain, bruises, and recovery from fatigue. The bath house also offers a restaurant and large banquet hall for you to relax in. With prior reservation you can try making your own soba noodles.

季の郷湯ら里の敷地内にある日帰り温泉施設です。湯ら里の宿泊客であれば、無料で利用できます。宿泊客以外も１回600円で利用できます。お風呂の他に、レストラン、お休み処もあります。温泉のお湯は、鉄分豊富な赤褐色をしています。この色だけで体によさそう(^_^;) 露店もあるのかと思ったら、内湯だけでした。でも、内湯からの景色も抜群によいので、ある意味露天風呂気分も味わえるかもしれません。あ...
Forest Branch School Fuzawa

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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

Travel / Tourism

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

Travel / Tourism

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.
Okurairi no Sato Usagi no Mori Auto Camping Ground

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Minamiaizumachi Itozawa Nishi Sawayama 3692-20

A campground in Nishizawayama, Itozawa, Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County. Auto-camp sites, first-come first-served campsites, and a rhododendron garden cover the hills and fields that are also inhabited by quite a few wild animals including rabbits. Some of the camp sites are pet friendly and the deepest part of the camp area is a youth camp used by groups such as the Boy Scouts.
Aizu-Tajima Gion Kaikan

Travel / Tourism

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.
Mini Oze Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Minamiaizu-gun Hinoematamura Hidari Dori 124-6

A park in Sadori, Hinoemata Village, Minamiaizu County. It's located along the Ina River, northeast of Lake Ozenuma. The park was designed to allow visitors to experience the seasons of Oze with a variety of plants and flowers from the Oze region including Asian skunk cabbage, Nikko day lilies, and Dicentra peregrina.
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

Travel / Tourism

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.
Ajidokoro Minatoya

3.5

18 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 34

This local cuisine restaurant is located in Ouchi-juku, roughly 15 minutes by car from Yunokami-Onsen Station. The building still has its straw thatched roof, for an olden times sensation you can feel in your skin. They are careful to use 100% specially grown soba for their juwari soba. “Ten zarusoba” with freshly made soba and homemade vegetable tempura is popular. Also, you can purchase “shingoro” —local dish of Minami Aizu—in front too. The half-polished rice is stuck on a skewer, coated with 10-year miso and then cooked on a charcoal grill—perfect food for walking and eating.

食事としての利用もできるお店ですが、食べ歩きとして利用しました。福島県の郷土料理である「しんごろう」で有名です。天気も良かったので、食べ物片手に大内宿をぶらり歩き。おいしかったです。
Honke Kanoya

Style / Fashion

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 48

A shop which carries crepe products and folk crafts amidst the simple Japanese-style homes of Ouchi-juku. The colorful crepe decorating the shop front is a sight which draws the eyes of countless tourists. All of the shop’s accessories and knickknacks are handmade. Particularly popular is the shop’s animals, dried persimmons, and vegetable baskets, all made from crepe material. The shop owner is quite friendly, and one of the shop’s charms is the warm welcome visitors are greeted with, sometimes including tea and a sampling of pickles. The shop makes for some great photographs in winter when snow is on the ground. The store does close, however, during snowstorms, so take note of the weather before visiting.
Yamagataya

4.0

14 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 43

A soba restaurant located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Here you can enjoy handmade soba noodles made with locally-grown buckwheat. The restaurant's decor is traditionally Japanese. The restaurant serves negi soba, a local specialty from the Ouchi-juku area, and seasonal dishes like mountain vegetable cuisine, char and other fish dishes, and horsemeat.

The more famous Ouchijuku Misawaya was full so we continued walking until Yamagataya. The menu is the same:soba & a full onion! The idea is you use the naganegi onion in place of chopsticks to eat...
Koyasu Kannon

Travel / Tourism

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.
Kintaro Soba Yamamotoya

4.0

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 15

A soba noodle restaurant located in Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture. Operating out of an old Japanese home with a thatched roof, here you can enjoy soba noodles made with care according to a labor-intensive process. The restaurant's authentic, handmade soba noodles are created with a homemade flour stone milled from locally grown buckwheat. The restaurant also sells yaki-dango dumplings broiled at the front of the shop.

宿のおかみさんに、どこのお蕎麦がおいしいか尋ねたところ教えていただいたのが、ここ山本屋さん。胡桃蕎麦が絶品だから食べて行ってと。ここだけで食べられるこのそばは本当に素晴らしい。聞いたところ、ネギ蕎麦はもともと他のところの食べ方が大内宿に渡ってきたとのことでした。（そういうわけで、この店にはネギ蕎麦はないのかな？）
Honke Tamaya

4.0

21 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 3

A soba noodle restaurant located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The restaurant operates out of an atmospheric old Japanese building over 400 years old with tatami mat seating, and diners here can enjoy negi soba (wedding soba), a local specialty dish in the Ouchi-juku area. The restaurant's soba noodles are made with Aizu-grown buckwheat, and people love their firm, chewy texture. The vegetables in the restaurant uses are also locally-grown. The restaurant's black rice kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cakes are also popular.

６月終わりの平日に大内宿に観光に行った時に寄りました。混むと嫌なので朝食も取らずに早めに家を出たので、大内宿には９時前に着きました。人も少なく、江戸時代を想像させる街並みや高倉神社をぶらぶらと見て回った後に、本家玉屋山で遅めの朝食でネギ蕎麦を食べました。薄暗い古民家の中には囲炉裏で火が燃えていて、とてもいい雰囲気でした。早かったので客も私たちだけでのんびりとネギ蕎麦を堪能しました。付け合わせに出て...

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