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Eastern Shinshu

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Takizawa Ranch

3.5

45 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Minamisakugunminamimakimura Nobeyama 23-1

Takizawa Ranch lets visitors experience milking cows, horseback riding, planting vegetables, harvesting, and more. There’s a camp site and lodgings on the second floor above a horse barn for a fun experience. Every year is the “Takizawa Ranch Festival,” which includes concerts, bingo, a free market, and more. It’s about 35 minutes from the Sutama Interchange on the Chuo Expressway or 30 minutes from the Kobuchisawa Interchange.

八ヶ岳がきれいに見えるのどかな牧場で、牛、羊、にわとり、馬がいました。乗馬ができるようです。ソフトクリームはおいしかったです。
Takayama Family Bokujo

4.0

12 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Chiisagata-gun Nagawa Machi Daimon 3582

This tourism farm is located 30 to 60 minutes from various interchanges on the Chuo Expressway, Nagano Expressway, and Joshin-Etsu Expressway in Chiisagata County, Nagano Prefecture. The farm offers activities such as cow milking, catching fish with your bare hands, horseback riding and other animal activities, and sausage and butter making. Visitors can also try driving a tractor or riding a four wheeler. The farm also offers plans and schedules combining a variety of activities. During lunchtime, visitors can enjoy barbecue made with Shinshu beef and other farm fresh cuisine.

小学生高学年と再訪。目当ては魚のつかみ取り。一度に一匹だけだが楽しいらしい。川の水が冷たいので長靴がお勧め。他を上手く組み合わせれば１日遊べる。
Vegetaball With / Minamimaki Village Rural Exchange Center

3.5

8 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Minamisaku-gun Minamimakimura Nobeyama 412-1

A space and astronomy activity center. The center's popular domed Globe Theater uses exciting 3D imagery to present the constellations and the night sky over Nobeyama. One show lasts approximately 30 minutes and the theater holds six shows a day. The MAP-S flight similar is also popular; useable from ages four and up, the simulator allows users to experience what it feels like to fly over the Nobeyama Highland via 3D imagery and easy-to-use, game-like controls.

プラネタリウムがある「南牧村農村文化情報交流館（ベジタボール・ウィズ）」ですね。他にもお土産屋さん、カフェなどがあります。「国立天文台野辺山」に隣接しているので、休憩がてら訪れてみてもよいかもです。
Shinshu Ham Karuizawa Kobo

4.5

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa Higashi 236

A workshop producing the fine sausages and hams of Shinshu Ham, imbued with the goodness of Nagano's abundant natural environment. A five-minute walk from Karuizawa Station, their items are made with skilled craftsmanship and carefully selected ingredients. By reserving at least a week in advance, you can join a workshop making Kurobuta pork wieners by hand under the guidance of an artisan. Have fun with your family and friends, and when you're done you can eat the wieners you've made on the spot. The cafe restaurant serves super juicy frankfurters along with draft beer.

ソーセージの腸詰体験をしました。大人のグループで参加しましたがとても楽しかったです。小さなお子様連れのご家族もいらっしゃいました。お子様も楽しそうにしていました。出来上がったソーセージは、一部はその場で試食でき、残りは持ち帰りになります。すごく美味しかったです。体験料金もそんなに高くなかったので大変満足しました。
Karuizawa Gardenfarm Strawberry Farm

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Hotchi 2062-1

A strawberry farm situated 1,000 meters above sea level a 20-minute drive from the Usui-Karuizawa Interchange. The farm raises choice strawberries in greenhouses surrounded by the naturally lush highlands of Karuizawa. In winter, the farm grows some 30 thousand strawberry plants, and in winter and spring visitors can enjoy picking five varieties of strawberries, including Benihoppe and Yayoihime. The farm's clean and tidy greenhouses are kept around 25° C and its strawberries are grown on raised platforms for easy reach, and visitors can enjoy a relaxing time picking strawberries while taking in the vast beauty of Mt. Asama. The farm offers 30-minute and 40-minute all-you-can-eat picking courses and a course which allows you to purchase the strawberries you picked by weight to take home.
Nagato Farm

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Chisagatagunnagawamachi Daimon 3539-2

A farm located in Nagawa Town, Chiisagata County, Nagano Prefecture. Nagato Farm raises some 200 heads of milk cows on spacious grounds equal in size to 45 Tokyo Domes. Visitors can meet and play with cows, goats, and always-popular alpacas, or just spend a relaxing time on the farm’s invigorating pastureland offering majestic views. The farm’s restaurant serves firewood oven-baked Neapolitan pizza and dishes made with Nagato’s own special dairy products. The farm’s rich soft ice cream makes a popular snack. Visitors can also try their hand at horseback riding or making various dairy products.
Glass Studio KARUIZAWA

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura 664-9

At Glass Studio KARUIZAWA, you can experience various glasswork activities, such as glass blowing and candle making. Everyone from elementary school students to adults can participate, and it’s popular with families as well. You can buy original glass goods here, and you can even have items made to order.
Karuizawa Glass Gallery ARMS

2.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Nagakura 664-6

A glass gallery situated along National Route 18 in Nagakura, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The gallery sells glassware such as accessories and cellphone straps. The adjoining studio offers a variety of glassmaking activities such as making glass beads and glass fusing.

家族で行ったのですが土曜にも関わらずお客さんが誰もいませんでした。そのうえ店員が暗すぎます。接客態度改善したほうがいいですよ。必要最低限しか話さない。何をしているのかわからない男の店員がちょっと距離をおいて突っ立って見てました。居心地最悪です。それから値段が高すぎる！トンボだまをネックレスにするときに他のビーズと組み合わせたりするのですがビーズがひとつ300円とかなんでもないビーズでもひとつ10...
Tawan

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Minamisaku-gun Minamimakimura Itabashi 949-250

A ceramics studio where visitors can work try activities such as making pottery using an electric potter's wheel, making pottery by hand, a children's pottery activity, and group pottery activities. Pottery making using an electric potter's wheel is for people of elementary school age and older. Participants can choose from among seven glazes; students in the lower grades of elementary school can make a broad owan bowl. High school students can make a tall cup or owan bowl.
Rakuyaki Togado

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa Kyukaruizawa 812

A pottery specialty shop situated along the Kyu-Karuizawa Ginza Street in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The shop sells raku ware, which is made by hand without the use of a lathe and fired at low temperatures. The shop also offers a raku ware painting activity in which you can paint a plate, cup, or piggybank and have it fired for you in about 20 minutes.
Karuizawa Photography Studio

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Kyudo 641

A photography studio situated along the Kyu-Karuizawa Ginza Street in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Specializing in sepia photography, here customers can take retro photos inside and outside the studio recalling the bygone days of Karuizawa's past. The studio also offers a wide selection of rental dresses.
Karuizawa Salad Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Nagakura 3866-2

A farm located in Nagakura, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The farm's highland vegetables, laboriously raised without the use of any agricultural chemicals whatsoever, have won the trust and respect of famous restaurants in Karuizawa and elsewhere. The farm also offers a vegetable picking activity (advance reservation required), enabling visitors to pick fresh vegetables with their own hands to bring home as souvenirs.
Kawa-no-ko Kobo / Kirishita-ori Kobo

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Hotchi 1216-5

A studio located in Hotchi, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Adjoined by a leatherwork and dyeing studio, the establishment sells leather sandals and accessories as well as shawls and sweaters made with thread dyed using natural materials. The studio also offers leatherwork and dyeing activities for visitors to try.
Togei Taiken Karuizawa DOG Kurako

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Hotchi

A pottery activity studio located in Nagakura, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Here visitors can have fun making a yunomi teacup, mug, dish, or other pottery piece under the guidance of the studio's staff. Visitors can also make a piece of pottery imprinted with the palm print of a young child or the paw print of your pet.
Lumiere

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Tateshinamachi Ashidahatsukano 2030

An activity center situated along the Venus Line in Ashidahakkano, Tateshina Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The center offers a variety of activities, including soba noodle making, rice planting (mid-May to early June), pottery classes, a variety of crafts, and ATV tours amidst the area's natural beauty. The grounds also encompass a dog park, remote controlled car racing circuit, and an art museum.
Matsui Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Pref. Komoroshi Kou 4385

This orchard is located in Matsuiko, Komoro City. You’ll find over 20 varieties of apple trees that number over 2,000, and apple picking is available from mid-August until the beginning of December. You can also pick flowers and fruit from early May through late June, and blueberry picking and beetle gathering activities occur from early July until early August. Additionally, from late March through early December, a barbecue area with roofs and partitions is open for use. A restaurant and fishing pond are open during this time as well.
Sugadaira Farm

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Uedashi Sugadairakougen

A farm located at the foot of Mt. Azumaya and Mt. Neko in the Sugadaira Highland in Ueda City. Here visitors can enjoy playing with farm animals and walking in an area surrounded by Japanese white birches and highland scenery. The farm's shop sells fresh milk and soft serve ice cream. The farm also serves as the starting point for trails leading up Mt. Azumaya and Mt. Neko.
Uchiyama Ranch Large Cosmos Garden

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Sakushi Uchiyama 352 Uchiyama farm

This flower garden with free admission is in Uchiyama Ranch located in Saku City, Nagano Prefecture. In the spacious three-hectare garden, approximately one million plants of various cosmos species are cultivated, and have gained popularity as a spot famous for cosmos. In the blooming season from mid-September to early October, it is visited not only by local residents but also many tourists.
Utsukushigahara Farm

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Uedashi Takeshikamihoniri

An animal rearing farm established in 1908 located on the Utsukushigahara Highland in Chiisagata County, Nagano Prefecture. The farm raises some 300 heads of cattle from late May to mid-October on a vast, grassy field is 2,000 meters above sea level. The Venus Line scenic mountain road is located nearby, and the farm is visited by many driving lovers and area mountain climbers.
Recreation Village Toubu

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Toumishi Kanou 6733-1

A recreation and lodging facility located in Tomi City. Nagano Prefecture. There are facilities for barbecuing, sports, and experiencing farming, and the center conducts events as well. In addition, depending on the season and time of day, you can enjoy a day trip bath in the facility's natural hot spring bath whose waters reflect the sky thanks to large windows. Visitors can eat dishes made with local ingredients and enjoy a relaxing, luxurious time. Because the facility is a recreation hotel for Ota City in Tokyo, Ota City residents receive a discount.

Nagano Eastern Shinshu

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Nagano Areas

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.