Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Nagano Area

  • Shinshu Fruits Land (Shinshu Nakano Inter Branch)
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    3.5
    20 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Nakanoshi Kusama Yasudaji temple border 1356-1
    An orchard standing along Prefectural Route 29 in Kusama, Nakano City. From June to around November, visitors can enjoy picking cherries, peaches, grapes, and apples (when in season). The orchard also has a restaurant which can accommodate groups and which serves chestnut okowa rice, Shinshu beef sukiyaki meals, and other dishes. In the orchard's fast food area, meanwhile, you can eat curry and noodle dishes. The orchard's shop sells farm-fresh produce and an abundant variety of Shinshu souvenirs.

    団体で利用し、2階で団体用のメニューで食事をしました。味は当たり障りのないものでしたが、野沢菜が絶妙な塩加減で、とても美味しかったです。

  • Ueda City Museum
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    3.5
    49 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Uedashi Ninomaru 3-3 (in Ueda Castle Ruins Park)
    This is a museum that stands at the ruins of Ninomaru in Ueda castle ruins. Inside the museum visitors can see Oda Nobunaga’s leather armor and Someya Yaki pottery designated as national important cultural properties, as well as drawings of Shinano Province from the Shoho era (1644–), designated as prefectural treasures. Archives showing the history of the Ueda region since the Middle Ages, material on nature, folk material and so on are collected and displayed.

    上田で最も人気のある真田氏に関しては別館でじっくり展示されており、本館は仙石氏および松平氏の上田城城主、および近代史がメインです。上田城の櫓とセットで500円は安いですね。今年も上田の祇園祭がコロナにより中止となり、代わりに祇園祭とは何かを本館で解説していました。上田わっしょいは開催、京都の祇園祭も開催、でも上田の祇園祭は中止。解せません。

  • Iizuna Resort Ski Area
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    4.5
    15 Reviews
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    Nagano Kamiminochi-gun Iizunamachi Kawakami 2755-209
    A ski area built on the eastern slope of Mt. Reisenji, one of the peaks of Mt. Iizuna, which itself is counted as one of the Five Peaks of Northern Nagano. The resort has a variety of courses for everyone from beginners to advanced skiers to enjoy, including the 2,500-meter Long Course, the 100-meter wide Flat Burn, and the natural snow Powder Course. Snowboards can also be used on all of the courses. The resort is also a place where families with children can have fun, and in addition to a kids' park with walking course and sledding hill popular with children, the resort has a daycare facility for children between the ages of 18 months and six years.

    ナイターが2月29日まで毎日営業、長野市街の夜景を見ながらのナイター滑走は最高、長野市街から30分で別世界。1枚バーンのゲレンデでの滑りは爽快そのもの。

  • Harunire Terrace
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    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura 2148
    Located in a commercial facility that serves as the entrance to the Hoshino Area in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture, the concept of this store is “everyday Karuizawa.” Taking on the role as the hot spring town for Hoshino Onsen Tombo-no-Yu, it features 15 stores that include restaurants and shops. Inside the facility which features a wood deck construction and nine buildings is a space full of abundant scenery that incorporates a grove of more than 100 Japanese elm trees which had been growing there naturally. There are also book cafes and unique miscellaneous good shops, and visitors can experience the vacation home life that is typical of Karuizawa.
  • Obuse Museum / Nakajima Chinami Kan
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    4.0
    36 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Kamitakaigunobusemachi Obuse 595
    The Obuse Museum / Nakajima Chinami Kan opened in 1992, and they store and display collections by modern Japanese painter Chinami Nakajima in the “Nakajima Chinami Kan” building, as well as traditional “matsuri yatai (festival stalls),” Obuse cultural artifacts. The trees in the area display the beauty of the four seasons, and the “Hanasaku Burari Art Museum” certainly lives up to its name. It’s about 12 minutes on foot from Obuse Station on the Nagano Line and about five minutes from the Obuse Smart Interchange on the Joshin-Etsu Expressway.

    今年 こちらは開館30周年[開館;平成4年(1992)10月22日]で こちらでは 9月23日-12月6日迄 《中島千波の世界展 千波の昔と今(東京藝術大学在学中の作品から現在の作品を展示)》が開催されています。 [中島千波館][第一展示室][第二展示室][キャラリー]に展示されている作品は 写真撮影禁止なので 写真で紹介出来ませんが 屏風《樹霊淡墨櫻》のような作品は 絵に関して素人である私のよ...

  • Floral Garden Obuse
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    3.5
    37 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Kamitakaigunobusemachi Nakamatsu 506-1
    This flower museum is located in Nakamatsu, Obuse Town. Surrounded by five famous peaks, Mt. Karida, and other sights, you’ll find flower gardens with themes based on various seasons. There’s the “Chinese phoenix” garden based on the Hokusai Katsushika depiction of the firebird, the “Tropical Fantasy” greenhouse featuring 200 types of plants, and other exhibitions. There’s also a flower shop that sells gardening goods.

    秋も終わりに近く、落ち葉のお庭にはお邪魔しませんでした。フラワーショップではクリスマスの寄せ植えやリースが並び、とてもお安く魅力的でした。花の盛りの頃に、もう1度訪れてみたいと思います。

  • Tateshina Teddy Bear Museum
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    4.0
    34 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Kitasakuguntateshinamachi Ashitahatsukano 1522
    "This museum is on the Daimon Highway in Ashidahatsukano, Tateshina Town, Kitasaku County. It has 11,000 teddy bears from Japan and abroad on view, with enormous dioramas and special manufacturer collections. Their ""Teddy Bear Plaza"" shop is the largest of its kind in Japan. You can visit it without entering the museum."

    宿泊していたホテルの向かい側にあるので、チェックアウト前に見学しました。館内は可愛いテディベアがいっぱい。ウエディングや世界の街角などのセットにいろいろなスタイルをしたテディベアがお出迎えしてくれます。多種多様なシーンを見て楽しめるのが最高です。お土産コーナーも充実。どのテディベアを選ぼうか迷うくらい。小さいお子様連れのファミリーにはオススメのスポットです。

  • Tanaka Honke Museum
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    4.0
    32 Reviews
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    Nagano Prefecture Suzaka-shi Kurincho 476
    This is a museum in Kokumachi Town, Suzaka City, Nagano Prefecture, using the house of the Tanaka merchant family who amassed great wealth in the Edo period through grain, rapeseed oil, tobacco, cotton and brewing. In the 10,000 square meter plot around the stone storehouse are the former main building, reception hall and bathing room, and the strolling garden with central pond is beautiful in all seasons. In the stone storehouse exhibition room is a permanent exhibit of the daily goods used by the Tanaka family from the middle of the Edo period into the Showa period, and there are special exhibitions held five times a year.

    The Edo-Style 5 course meal was the most incredible blend of flavors and exquisite taste my husband and I ever experienced! We traveled to Suzaka after our trip to Nagano and got to experience the...

  • Komoro City Koyama Keizo Art Museum
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
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    Nagano Komoro-shi Tei 221
    A 10-minute walk from Komoro Station and a 10-minute drive from the Komoro Interchange. This art museum is located close to Kashima Shrine on the northwest side of Komoro Castle Park. The museum displays the works of Western-style painter Keizo Koyama, an honorary citizen of Komoro City who has also been awarded the Order of Culture. Established by the artist in 1975, the museum and the artwork inside it have been donated to the city. The museum's wide-ranging collection, spanning an array of periods and genres, also includes water colors, sketches, and depictions of Mt. Asama and a summertime forest the artist created while a junior high school student. The museum also holds special exhibitions and exhibitions of works submitted by the general public.

    懐古園のずっと奥にある美術館です。浅間山の溶岩が点在する庭を歩いていくと美術館に着けます。展示室内は撮影不可になっています。遠目で雰囲気がわかる撮影ならOKとのこと。念のため、撮影済みの写真をその場で見てもらって了解を得ました。フランスやスペインの街並み・浅間山や姫路城の絵画などが展示されています。どの絵画も見ごたえがあり、あたかもその場にいるかのような錯覚を覚えます。高輪プリンスホテルに展示され...

  • Mizuno Museum
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    4.0
    29 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Naganoshi Wakasato 6-2-20
    "An art museum standing on Prefectural Route 372 in Wakasato, Nagano City. Specializing in Nihonga Japanese paintings, the core of the museum's collection consists of pieces assembled by businessman Masayuki Mizuno over many years. The museum houses many pieces by master modern Nihonga painters such as Yokoyama Taikan. Designed to be a facility where visitors can take their time and fully experience the beauty of Nihonga paintings, the museum is stylishly designed inside and out. A 2,300 square meter, fully fledged Japanese garden stands in front of the museum and is planted with the Kiso Goboku, ""Five Trees of the Kiso Valley"" -hinoki cypress, hiba, umbrella pine, Japanese arborvitae, and sawara cypress. "

    生誕135年記念「川端龍子」展が目的で初めて訪れた。作品は5つのテーマに沿って100点ほどが2.3階に展示されアトリエまで復元されていた。龍子の作品を纏めて観られたのは龍子記念館だったが今回も展示の殆どが記念館所蔵のものだった。「会場芸術」と称して制作された大作には「草の実」の優作があったが「鳴戸」や「筏流し」の名品はなかった。ただ敗戦直後に描かれた「爆弾散華」や2曲二双の「南飛図」、また青龍展の...

  • Oshika Median Tectonic Line Museum
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    4.5
    16 Reviews
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    Nagano Shimoina-gun Oshikamura Okawara 988
    This museum has exhibits on the Median Tectonic Line. It's the largest fault line in Japan running along the western half of the Japanese archipelago from Kanto to Kyushu. It's almost directly below Mt. Akaishi and the main peaks of the southern Alps near Shizuoka's prefectural border. Though it runs overland for 1,000 kilometers, this is one of the rare portions where you can observe a fault outcrop and other unique geological features. The curator will take the time to explain in detail everything from the creation of the Japanese islands to the geology of earthquakes.

    地学・地理学の,地形・地質・岩石などに興味がある人のための博物館。 かなり力の入った展示だが,大量の展示品と,大量の解説に,辟易する。 パンフレットも,ぎゅうぎゅうに,つめて書いてある。 ガイドによる解説がない場合,基礎知識がないと,あるいは知的好奇心がないと,居続けるのは,きつい。 実際,ほぼ同時に入館した2組は,さっさと出て行った。 予約しておけば,解説に人気のある,前館長が説明してくれる...

  • Iida City Museum
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    4.0
    29 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Idashi Outemachi 2-655-7
    This art museum located in the Iida Castle ruins collects and exhibits many pieces by Hishida Shunso, a painter who was born in Iida City. The museum holds periodic lectures on the arts, nature and folklore of the city and also permanent and special exhibits. The museum also has a planetarium where they offer programs with contents that change every season.

    美術館としては飯田出身の画家菱田春草の作品、博物館としては伊那谷の文化を示す展示物やなぜか恐竜模型がフィーチャーされています。飯田長姫高校の跡地利用ということでそこそこ広大、敷地内に「柳田邦男館」「日夏耿之介記念館」などの付帯施設が充実しています。

  • Jiigatake Ski Resort
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
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    Nagano Omachi-shi Taira 4819
    This ski resort is located a 34-kilometer drive along national Route 147 traveling towards Omachi from the Azumino Interchange on the Nagano Expressway. Notable for its many gentle slopes, the resort is a great place for small children and beginners to try skiing. There are steeper slopes higher up the mountain for more experienced skiers to enjoy. The resort offers ski and snowboard rentals and holds classes as well. Sleds can be used on the children's slope and, for small children who might find using a lift difficult, there's an enclosed trailer which can be ridden to the top of the slope.

    Jigatake is a wonderful skiing area and far less crowded than the near by Hakuba Valley Kashimayari. It was a little difficult to figure out where to go to rent gear after our taxi dropped us off but...

  • Nature Kids Forest House
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    5.0
    22 Reviews
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    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi
    "An outdoor activity center adjoining the Karuizawa Prince Hotel East in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The center holds ""kids challenge"" events consisting of a variety of seasonal outdoor activities. The center also has programs such as a forest crafting activity, and a fully-fledged climbing facility which requires no advance reservation. In addition, the center holds special seasonal programs like starwatching around a bonfire, and nighttime forest safari tours."

    My kid loved it when we stayed in Prince Karuizawa. 森の家 is within walking distance from the cottage and just next to the shopping mall. It is also just 2 minutes walking from the ski lift. We enjoyed...

  • Karuizawa Ice Park
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
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    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Hotchi 1154-1
    "This curling center is part of the Karuizawa Kazakoshi Park sports facility, a 15-minute drive from Karuizawa Station. With six curling sheets, it is one of the largest year-round curling facilities in Japan, holding major domestic and international competitions. They also have curling lessons for beginners as well as recreational programs for groups. Shoes, curling stones, and brushes are available for rent, so anyone can enjoy this game that's also known as ""chess on ice."""

    初めてカーリング体験。1時間でしたがとても楽しめます。インストラクターがテキパキと親切に教えてくれるので、一応ゲームまでできます。足元は安定しませんでしたがとても楽しめます。またお邪魔したいです。

  • Swan Garden Azumino
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Aduminoshi Toyoshinaminamihotaka 1115
    A shopping mall located close to the Azumino Interchange on the Nagano Expressway in Toyoshinaminamihotaka, Azumino City. The shopping mall is host to Japanese Azumido, a shop which sells local oyaki dumplings and pickles; Japanese confectionary shops; restaurants; interior design shops; an outdoor goods store; and a large bookstore.

    安曇野インターからすぐです。レストランやファーストフードからファッションなどさまざまなお店が集まっています。

  • Karuizawa New Art Museum
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    3.5
    28 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 1151-5
    Artworks from the postwar period of Japan to the present day are exhibited here. The art museum was created with the intention to publicize outstanding artworks both domestically and internationally. Exhibitions display works not only from Japanese contemporary artists but from overseas artists too. The museum has invented itself to appeal to the expectations of art fans from all over the world. The museum houses a restaurant, café and shop where you can get some KaNAM original goods which can only be purchased here.

    After missionary Alexander Croft Shaw’s building a chapel in Karuizawa, this town has been a sought-after fairyland for wedding. My wife and I visited the Museum on a sunny morning. Turns out there...

  • Megamiko Center
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    4.0
    25 Reviews
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    Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun, Tachinchocho cho, Goddess Lake 987
    A leisure facility located in Tateshina Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Located on the shore of Lake Megami, here visitors can enjoy seasonal leisure activities. The facility also has a restaurant serving select dishes made with organic vegetables and other natural ingredients, and a shop where visitors can purchase Tateshina souvenirs. In addition to canoeing, kayaking, and boating, in winter, visitors can go cross country skiing or go ice driving on the lake.

    女神湖南にある女神湖センターにはボートがたくさん並んでます。女神湖は人の多い白樺湖と違って余裕をもって、カヌー・カヤック・バトルボートなど水上スポーツを楽しめるスポットです。横に小さな湿原があり、桟橋のような木の通路を通って中を移動できます。

  • Iida City Kawamoto Kihachiro Puppet Museum
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    4.0
    25 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Idashi Honmachi 1-2
    "This art museum located in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture exhibits works by the puppet artist Kihachiro Kawamoto. There are over 200 puppets on display that were donated by Mr. Kawamoto, mostly of which were used in the NHK puppet theater series ""Sangokushi"" (Annals of the Three Kingdoms) and ""Heike Monogatari"" (The Tale of Heike). Each of the exhibits are replaced after a set period of time."

    見事な人形ばかりで、衣装もすばらしかったです。訪問者は自分ひとりでした。子供の頃見ていた番組が川本先生のお作と知り、感慨深かったです。三国志がクローズアップされていましたが、自分は三国志を見たことがなかったのでその点残念でした。平家物語のお人形もすばらしかったので、映像も見てみたかったです。最後に15分間の作品を見せていただきましたが、私が出ようとした途端に職員の方がすぐにアルコールを持って席を消...

  • Tateshina Amusement Aquarium
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    3.0
    31 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Chinoshi Kitayama 4035-2409
    An aquarium located close to Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort in Kitayama, Chino City. Situated 1,750 meters above sea level, it is the highest aquarium in Japan. Specializing in freshwater fish, visitors can view lake and river fish from around the world, including pirarucu, the largest freshwater fish in the world. The aquarium also allows pets and has a dog park.

    淡水魚しかいないのか、と失礼ながらそれほど期待をせずに入館したのですが、とても楽しめました! マニアックな魚が多く派手さはないものの、見たことのない魚や各水槽の説明文に、こんな生き物がいるの?!という驚きが止まりませんでした。 説明も読みながらじっくり見て回ると、豆知識も増えるし、おもしろかったです。

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Nagano prefecture is an exciting mix of mountains, hot spring monkeys, and preserved Edo history. At the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano is one of the country’s most popular destinations, whether in winter for its snow sports and the much-loved Jigokudani Monkey Park or in the warmer months for discovering the undulating hills on foot. For fantastic Edo architecture, head to the Kiso Valley for a 60-kilometer stretch of quaint wooden buildings that marked the Nakasendo route 200 years ago.

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