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- Minobusan Kuonji Temple
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4.5238 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Minobu 3567
- High Priest Nichiren entered Kuonji Temple at Mt. Minobu where he remained for his entire life teaching his disciples. This sacred place where Nichiren devoted his life to reciting the Lotus Sutra draws many worshipers as the head temple of the Nichiren sect. Many annual events are also held here. The Setsubun Ritual held in February attracts tens of thousands of people. In the grounds of the temple are drooping trees said to be 400 years old. The place is well known as a cherry blossom viewing spot with beautiful pale pink flowers showing their full glory during the spring.
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There is a lot of history here and participating in morning prayer (5:30AM) whether you follow the faith or not provides for a relaxing and unique introspective experience. The ropeway to Mt Minobu...
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- Minobusan Ropeway
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4.091 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Minobu 4226-2
- This aerial cable car now in service for 55 years has an altitude difference of 763 meters, the largest in the Kanto region. It also has three observation decks near Okunoin Station at the peak. The eastern observation deck near the station offers a grand panoramic view spanning from the Tenshi Mountains to Suruga Bay and the Izu Peninsula. It also features a view of Mt. Fuji selected as one of the 100 best in Kanto. In September, October, and November, the park hosts an event called Minobu Night Walk Sorawatashi for two days each month.
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This goes from the nearby temple to the summit of Mt Minobu and saves the arduous 4+ hour round trip. It costs about 1400 yen per person return but the views from the top alone are worth it. You have...
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- Roadside Station Fujikawa
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4.048 Reviews - Transportation
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunfujikawachou Aoyagimachi 1655-3
- This roadside station located in Fujikawa Town, Minamikoma County, Yamanashi Prefecture features a tourist information area offering information on roads and tourist sites, a farmer's market, a restaurant, and more. The farmer's market offers a variety of locally-harvest fruits and vegetables including tomatoes and yuzu citrus. The station's restaurant, Fujikawa Kitchen, is notable for its large menu featuring dishes that leverage seasonal ingredients and traditional flavors.
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昨日は、雪で、山梨県内は、高速道路及び一般道は、通行止めで大混乱。本日、天気は良道の駅の横にある、大型店舗，オギノとDSM（旧名：くろがねや）で買い物、山梨でしか売っていない物があり立ち寄りました。道の駅も、農産物も土産物も、値上げしており、女房殿、野菜や同じような食べ物は、スーパーなどののほうが、安いくらいであるといっていました。新しいパン屋などができて、営業努力？は感じられるが、道の駅としては...
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- Roadside Station Shimobe
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3.543 Reviews - Transportation
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Furuseki 4321
- This roadside station, part of Shimobe Noson Culture Park, is nestled in a quiet spot in the mountains. Its attractions include a barbequing square, a relocated folk home, a grassy square, a soba noodle restaurant, and a shop offering local specialties. It also has a firefly dome where visitors can learn about fireflies. From December to February, visitors can try their hand at making Shimobe miso paste with soy beans grown in Minobu Town, a very popular activity.
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下部温泉から本栖湖に行く途中、休憩でよく利用します。農産物や加工品を販売してます。小生は、”豆餅”があれば購入します。少しリニューアルして、ゆるキャラのファンの聖地みたいな感じで、オートバイで、若者が訪れています。 イタリヤのスクーターが展示されており、これは買うことができるのかと、売り子に問うと、売れないですと言っていました。当然ですが。施設の近くでは、この寒さの中、テントが５-６張位、設営して...
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- Lake Motosu
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- Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Motosu
- Lake Motosu is the deepest lake of the Fuji Five Lakes boasting a maximum depth of about 122 meters. The lake water is so transparent you can see an upside down Mt. Fuji like that printed on the back of the 1,000 yen note. The lake is also famous for being a place where you can see the Diamond Fuji phenomenon which is when the rising sun on the New Year’s Day aligns perfectly with the peak of Mt. Fuji. Windsurfing and bass fishing are also popular things to do on the lake with many windsurfers and anglers visiting especially during the summer.
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- Roadside Station Tomizawa
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3.511 Reviews - Transportation
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunnambuchou Fukushi 28507-1
- This roadside station in Nanbu Town, Minamikoma County, Yamanashi Prefecture has a giant statue of a bamboo shoot as a landmark. Located at the border of Southwest Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefecture, the facility is a key hub for stimulating the region's economy and life. The farmer's market offers the town's specialties, locally-harvested seasonal vegetables, and more. The food court's takenoko gohan (rice cooked along with bamboo shoots) and seasonal soba noodles are quite popular with visitors.
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奥山温泉の帰りに寄りました。国道52号沿いにあります。地元の野菜やこんにゃくなどの加工品が沢山あります。静岡が近いのでマグロなど海の幸もあります。ピーナッツ饅頭は美味しかったです。
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- Roadside Station Minobu Fujikawa Tourism Center
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3.515 Reviews - Transportation
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Shimoyama Within 1597 Fujikawa Craft Park
- Minobu Roadside Station is in Fujikawa Craft Park, located about five minutes by taxi from Shimobe Onsen Station on the JR Minobu Line in Minamikoma County, Yamanashi Prefecture. It is an information center that provides information about tourism and products in southern Yamanashi Prefecture and the Kyonan region. In the Nishijima Washi Kobo Sutekiya, visitors can try their hand at making postcards or collages of Nishijima washi (handmade paper) with their own designs. Other hands-on experiences include seal engraving, making items out of rattan, and kite flying lessons, all held in the Monozukurikan.
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農産物もないし、お土産物も定番だけ、買い物目的なら立ち寄る価値なし。ドックランやカヌー場があると案内図にあったので、他の目的があれば良いのかも。
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- Oboshi Park
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4.511 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunfujikawachou Kajikazawa 2175
- This scenically beautiful park spreads across the side of Mt. Oboshi in the southwestern tip of Kofu Basin. It offers a view of Mt. Fuji and the Fuji River, the Kofu Basin, the Yatsugatake Mountains, and beyond. The park's more than 2,000 cherry blossom trees, including Sato-zakura cherry and weeping cherries, earned it a spot on the Japan Cherry Blossom Association's list of the country's 100 best cherry blossom viewing spots. The park holds the Oboshi Sakura Festival during the annual bloom season that is attended by large crowds of people.
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桜満開の時期に訪問しました。 お祭りが開催されていて、期間中は駐車場が500円となっていました。 県外から桜観光に来て、山梨県内の桜の名所をかなり回りましたが、ここが1番良かったです。山の斜面に桜の木々が植えてあるので、絵面がいい景色なります。 山上では、出店があり、たくさんの花見客が桜を満喫していました。
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- The Yu-no-oku Museum of Gold Mining History
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4.032 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Uenotaira 1787 ahead
- Minobu Town is a place with many cultural heritage sites, but none have a bigger historical significance than the Yu-no-oku gold mine ruins. This museum exhibits a collection of unearthed articles, materials related to the gold mine, historical documents on gold mining, and more. Visitors can enjoy learning about the world of gold mining during Japan's middle ages and Warring States period through the museum's video theater, dioramas, exhibit halls, hands-on gold panning activity, and more.
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日帰り温泉目的で下部に行きました。以前から気になっていたのですが、中々機会がとれず、ようやく立ち寄ることができました。 博物館に入る前に駐車場があり、そこには足湯ができる場所があります。下部温泉の中の施設ということなのか、ポツポツ利用する人がいました。中はそれほど広くないのですが、お湯がちょうど良く、帰りに利用しました。無料です。 今回はなんといっても砂金取りが目的で、これが結構はまります。はじめ...
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- Nishijima Washi no Sato
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4.08 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Nishijima 345
- Opened in 1998 as a place to experience the tradition of washi (Japanese paper) making, it consists of four facilities where visitors can enjoy Minobu in four ways. The Misuki Fureai-kan is used as a rental and exhibition space. Koshiya Nakatomi is a workshop where visitors can experience traditional washi papermaking. Kamiya Nakatomi sells souvenirs. And Ajisai Ann is a restaurant where you can taste Minobu regional cuisine. You're sure to be able to spend a fulfilling time here.
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国道５２号線を甲府方面に車を運転していると、左側に建物があります。一度は見学したいと思っていました。小生が、小学校に入学する頃？、我が家でも、茶、蚕(かいこ)、三椏(みつまた)の生産してました。大きな鍋を沸騰させて、大きな桶内で、水蒸気で三椏をふかして、皮をとっていました。この三椏が、和紙の原料です。和紙の事が、参考になりました。
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- Minobu Yuba no Sato
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3.55 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Aimata 425-1
- This manufacturer and direct marketer of yuba (tofu skins) offers a number of exclusive specialties including soy milk soft-serve ice cream and okara oyaki (tofu lees dumplings). Its restaurant Seiryu offers up Japanese cuisine with a focus on maximizing the appeal of yuba.
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道の駅のローカルバージョン的な施設です。ゆばを食べたく訪れましたがすでにご飯物は品切れでしたがゆばは堪能できました。私たち以外ではレストランの利用者はいませんでした。ゆっくりと食事するには良かったです。店の外の桜も満開で綺麗でした。隣の施設でゆばソフトも食べてみて下さい。
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- Lake Motosu West Bank Park (Nakanokura observation area )
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Nakano Kura
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- Lake Shibire
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- Yamanashi Prefecture Nishiyachiyo-gun Ichikawa Misato-cho Yamaeya Four Tail Unit
- This small natural mountaintop lake in located in Ichikawamisato Town, Nishiyatsushiro County, Yamanashi Prefecture. Legend has it that this mystical lake was the site of rainmaking rituals. The lake shore features a campground and a rental boat dock. You can enjoy the colors of the cherry blossoms in spring and the autumn foliage in the fall.
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- Mt. Minobu
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- Yamanashi Pref. Minamikomagunminobuchou Minobu
- A 1,153 meter tall mountain located in Minobu-cho, Minamikoma County, Yamanashi Prefecture. There is a ropeway which can take you to the top of the mountain in about seven minutes, and during your ride in the sky you can enjoy fantastic scenery. There are also two trails which visitors can use to hike to the top as well. The mountain is a habit for Japanese macaques, wild boar, Japanese deer, and a variety of other animals, as well as Japanese serow and Japanese dormice, rare species designated as Natural Monuments which you just might catch a glimpse of if you're lucky. Twice a year, visitors can enjoy the sight of the sun perfectly capping the top of the mountain in a phenomenon popularly known as the “Diamond Fuji,” and the mountain is also a popular spiritual destination.
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- Akasawa-juku
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Hayakawacho Akasawa
- This valley community is located about 60 minutes from Kofu-minami Interchange or Kawaguchiko Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. It once prospered as a post station on the Minobu Okan, a road that connects Kuonji Temple on Mt. Minobu, the head temple of the Nichiren Shu order of Nichiren Buddhism, to Mt. Shichimen, one of its sacred sites. Until the current roads were built in the late 1950s, the Minobu Okan was the only road to Mt. Shichimen, so the post town was patronized by many temple visitors. It is said that 1000 people a day stayed in the town's lodges during its peak between the Meiji period and the early Showa period. The buildings and cobbled streets look just as they did during centuries ago during the Edo period. This townscape has been designated as a Preservation District for Groups of Important Historic Buildings.
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- Sakura Terrace
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Minobu 3510
- The terrace space at Kakurinbo, a lodging house on Mt. Minobu, is an open space where guests can enjoy coffee, tea, and other soft drinks and tea sweets in an open space filled with the chirping of birds. Fujizakura Kogen sake, and "terakoyaki," octopus dumplings that you grill and eat by yourself, are also popular.
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- Isshiki Hotaru no Sato
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Isshiki Chinai
- This firefly habitat is about a ten-minute drive from Shimobeonsen-Hayakawa Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. It is one only a few habitats in Japan where genji-botaru (Luciola cruciata) reproduce naturally. The habitat is located in the Isshiki District of Minobu Town a short distance from Shimobe Onsen, which is known for having been one of the private hot springs of the feudal lord Takeda Shingen. Countless genji-botaru fireflies dance in the air here from late May to late June. A visitor's center, the Isshiki Hotaru Information Center, is located in the district. The Isshiki Firefly Festival held on a Saturday in early to mid June features booths selling local specialties, concerts, and other attractions. Many people come across the country to attend the festival.
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- Kakurinbo Temple
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Minobu 3510
- "This temple is located about 30 minutes from Rokugo Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway via National Route 52. It is a sub-temple of Kuonji Temple established by Niccho, the Buddhist priest responsible for the area's religious revival. Niccho is said to have overcome blindness through the power of his faith. Based on his prayer to protect and heal believers suffering from eye diseases, the temple has become known as a place to pray for cures for eye diseases and for success in academics. The temple is famous for its shojin kaiseki (multi-course vegetarian Buddhist meals) featuring yuba (tofu skins), a local specialty of Minobu Town. Meals can be enjoyed even if you are not staying overnight. Eating lunch at the temple called ""Ote-lunch"" has become a popular attraction. Overnight guests at the temple can enjoy taking a wine bath while viewing the Japanese garden."
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- Mokujiki no Sato Bishokan Museum
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Minobucho Kita Kawa 2855
- "This history museum collects and exhibits artifacts including Buddhist images carved by the Edo period monk Mokujiki as well as ancient documents. Mokujiki traveled all over Japan and left behind more than 1,000 Buddhist statues across the country during his lifetime. His works have a creative style that does not conform to traditional styles of Buddhist carving. Called ""mishobutsu"" (smiling Buddhas) for the faint smiles on the mouths of many of their mouths, his Buddhist images were widely worshipped by the common folk. The nearby birthplace of Mokujiki is open to the public as Mokujiki Memorial Hall."
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- Manami Alps Sangaku Shashin-kan Shirahata Shiro Kinenkan
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- Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Hayakawacho Narada 486
- 45 kilometers and 80 minutes from the Kofu-minami Interchange on the Chuo Expressway via the Kofu Bypass and National Route 52. This museum stands in a corner of Naratanosato, a complex which also houses a hot spring bathhouse and restaurant, and displays works by Shiro Shirahata, a Yamanashi Prefecture-born man and one of Japan's leading mountain photographers. The artist has taken countless photographs of the Himalayas and other peaks around the world as well as famous mountains and landscapes in Japan. Here visitors can view Shirahata's photographs capturing the essence of mountains, particularly the images he has taken of the Southern Japan Alps which he considers his life's work.
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Yamanashi prefecture is the proud home of one of Japan’s most celebrated icons: Mount Fuji. Although the mountain straddles both Yamanashi and Shizuoka, the most breathtaking views of Fuji-san can be seen from the Fuji Five Lakes north of the mountain in Yamanashi prefecture. The plethora of outdoor activities in and around the lakes all have the benefit of the country’s highest mountain as their backdrop, and we can assure you that it is an unforgettable sight.
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