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Alps Azumino National Government Park (Omachi & Matsukawa Region)

4.5

35 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Omachishi Tokiwa 7791-4

A park located in Tokiwa, Omachi City. Here you can enjoy the great outdoors. The park is divided into several zones, such as a central zone, conservation zone, forest recreation zone, mountain stream zone, and nature activity zone. The park also has a barbecue area with everything you need available on-site (reservation required) and a mountain biking park.

入園口に向かう道。歩道に猿・猿・猿・・・。2匹づつ毛繕いしながら、猿・猿・猿・・・。こんな光景は滅多に見られないので、車を止めて写真を撮りたかったが、睨まれたのでヤメました。園内はとても広いので、無料の園内列車に乗って奥まで行き、歩いて戻る作戦にしました。所々に見所があり、空中回廊など楽しく散策することが出来ました。猿と遭遇しないか？少々ビビりながら・・・(笑)。駐車無料、入園450円(2日券は...
Roadside Station Imai Megumi-no-Sato

3.5

12 Reviews

Transportation

Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Imai 886-2

A roadside station situated along Prefectural Route 298 in Imai, Matsumoto City. The station sells fresh fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products and processed foods from Imai, the top farming area in the city. The station also has a restaurant serving dishes based on the concept of local production for local consumption such as handmade soba noodles; and a community center which can be used for local products exhibitions, farming workshop classes, and indoor sports.

「今井恵みの里」は、松本市で最大の農業地帯である今井地区にある道の駅です。主に今井地区周辺で生産された新鮮な野菜、くだもの、特産物、土産品が出荷されています。日曜日だったので、大変な賑わいでした。スイカもいろんな種類を売ってました。つれあいは、自産自消の食堂で日替わり定食を食べてましたが(美味しかったとの事)、手打ち蕎麦が人気のようです。採りたてのとうもろこしや玉ねぎ、大豆、ソルダムなど...
Roadside Station Alps Azumino Horigane-no-Sato

4.0

10 Reviews

Transportation

Nagano Pref. Aduminoshi Horiganekarasugawa 2696

A roadside station located in Horiganekarasugawa, Azumino City. The station sells fresh vegetables and other agricultural products from Azumino as well as processed foods. The station's restaurant serves daily set meal specials, an onigiri rice ball set meal with your choice of two rice balls from a selection of six, donburi rice bowls, and noodles.

安曇野市郊外の道の駅にあり、食事処、地域物産展が併設されていて便利です。近くには、ショッピングセンター、安曇野の観光地等ありますので、立ち寄るのにも便利です。
Omachi Alpine Museum

4.0

30 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Pref. Omachishi Omachi 8056-1

The Omachi Alpine Museum, located in Omachi, Omachi City, Nagano Prefecture, opened in 1951 as Japan’s first museum dedicated to mountains. In addition to introducing the wildlife and history of the Hida Mountains, the museum also holds exhibitions on the symbiosis between mountain-top ecosystems and people. At the attached zoo facility, Hida Mountain wildlife like Japanese serows and owls are kept; an exhibit featuring ptarmigans, a designated National Special Monument, reopened in 2016. The facility is a popular place to view rare mountain animals.

Very modern inside. Most of the signs were Japanese only, but it was still possible to figure out the gist of the displays (we were one non-speaker and one beginner-speaker). Especially liked the...
Kametaya Sake Brewery

4.5

28 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Shimadachi 2748

This sake brewery is located in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. You can purchase specialty products from the Shinshu region and taste different sake. Besides being able to tour the main building with a reservation, you can also tour the storehouse when brewing is not conducted from April to October. In addition, it has a parking lot for large buses, and is visited by many large groups.

We visited the brewery in September after making a reservation via email. A wonderful local experience. We took a 10 minute local train from Matsumoto to Shimonii Station and then walked from the...
Matsumoto Scale Museum

4.0

28 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Chuou 3-4-21

This is a museum in the warehouse-lined Nakamachi Street, Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, in the building occupied by weights and measures specialist Takeuchi Doryoko from 1902 to 1986. They have collected and exhibit over 1,000 items related to devices that weigh, measure and calculate from both Japan and abroad. The quiet courtyard is one of the standout charms. The nearest station is Matsumoto Station.

Because I was in the area, and because the entry fee was low, I stopped in, and was the only person in this small museum. Still thought it was pretty interesting! I recommend that anyone in the...
Kappa Bridge

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Nagano Matsumoto-shi Azumi
Matsumoto City Museum of Art

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Chuou 4-2-22

This is a private art museum in the center of Matsumoto City. The museum houses a collection of pieces by artists connected to Matsumoto City such as world-famous avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, calligrapher Shinzan Kamijo, and lifelong Shinshu (Nagano) natural vista painter Kazuo Tamura. Special exhibitions and exhibitions of works submitted by the general public are held at the museum several times each year. A 12-minute walk from JR Matsumoto Station.
Former Matsumoto High School (Agata no Mori Cultural Center of Matsumoto City)

3.5

24 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Agata 3-1-1

This educational facility is located inside Agata Forest Park. You can see the restored principal's room and classrooms in the wooden Western-style building-former Matsumoto Highschool-that is an Important Cultural Property. In addition, there is an adjoining auditorium, and it is used by many as a venue for the educational and cultural activities of local residents such as concerts and exhibit presentations.

重要文化財にも指定されている旧制松本高校本館に図書館や文化会館が置かれている。ただし、現在改装中のようで中には入れなかった。
Azumino Jansem Museum

3.5

23 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Pref. Aduminoshi Hotakariake 4018-6

This art museum is located along Prefectural Route 308 in Hotakaariake, Azumino City. It opened in 1993 as the first museum in the world to focus on the works of Armenian painter Jean Jansem, who did his work in France. The exhibitions feature Jansem’s oil paintings, watercolors, sketches, and woodblock prints, though sometimes works by other domestic and international artists are exhibited as well. The adjoining cafe offers a place to relax, and you can also enjoy a stroll through the verdant garden.

バレリーナの絵で有名なジャンセンの作品を展示しています。バレリーナといっても華やかなイメージよりもさびしさ、生きる悲しみを後ろ姿に感じさせます。
Matsumoto City Court and Historical Village

4.0

18 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Shimadachi 2196-1

Focusing on the theme of the modernization of Shinshu (Nagano), the Matsumoto City Historic Village contains a collection of precious buildings from the early Edo period through the Showa period. The Former Matsumoto Branch Court of Nagano District Court, a Prefectural Treasure, is a courthouse built in 1908 and is designed in the modern Japanese architectural style representative of the Meiji period. Visitors can also see a variety of other structures in the museum, such as Former Silk Mill of Showa Manufacturing Company and the Birth Home of Naoe Kinoshita.

明治時代の地方裁判所や少年刑務所独房、製糸工場、ああ野麦峠関係の展示などが移設保存されています。松本城と方向違いのバスで30分くらいというアクセスの問題からか、ほとんど人がいませんでしたが、なかなか見どころが多く良かったです。
Roadside Station Pokapoka Land Miasa

3.0

10 Reviews

Transportation

Nagano Pref. Omachishi Miasa 16784

"A roadside station standing along the Omachi Highway in Miasa, Omachi City. The entire station is a lodging facility with hot spring baths. Outfitted with 12 guest rooms and a large public bath area, the station also serves creative takes on traditional kaiseki course cuisine made with Shinshu beef and other Nagano ingredients. The station also has a shop selling local specialty products, a restaurant which serves ""Kurobe Dam Curry,"" and a rest area. The station's baths are available to non-guests."

Used to be better. Now, not too many items there. I have visited the place a few times in the past 5-6 years, but seems like it is getting worst from year to year...
Nyakuichioji Shrine

4.0

13 Reviews

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Nagano Omachi-shi Omachi Tawaramachi 2097

This Shinto shrine is famous for its large scale children's traditional yabusame horseback archery event and is ranked alongside the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura and Kyoto's Kamo Shrine as one of Japan's three greatest Shinto horseback archery shrines. Records state the shrine was founded in 849. The Honden front shrine reflects late Muromachi period regional tastes and is a single bay shrine with a pillar at each of its four corners built in the sumigi-iri Kasuga-zukuri style. The shrine has been designated an Important Cultural Property.

It is a little bit far from downtown Omachi, and as I visited, there was no other tourist. This is a Shinto shrine, but due to Shinto-Buddhism merging in the Middle Ages, there is a pagoda next to...
Ushikata Yado (Prefectural Treasure former Chikuni family home)

4.5

12 Reviews

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Otari village Kitaazumi-gun Nagano prefecture Tsugaike plateau

Ushikata Yado is the last remaining inn on the Chikuni Highway, also known as the “Salt Road” because it was once used to carry salt and marine products inland. The building with a hip, thatched roof is presumed to be of the late Edo period, and was used to accommodate the cattle used as transportation and their handlers (ushikata). It was designated as a treasure of Nagano prefecture in 2009.

牛方宿というのは、物資を運んだ牛方と牛が一緒に寝泊まりした宿です。栂池高原から小谷村を通る国道１４８号線に向かって下っている途中に見つけました。藁ぶき屋根の建物で、建物には説明も記されていました。この牛方宿のすぐ近くには「塩の道」の表示がありましたが、かつて、糸魚川から松本まで物資を運んだ千国街道を「塩の道」と呼ぶようです。かつては、その塩の道沿いには、何軒もの牛方宿があったそうですが、現在...
La Casta Natural Healing Garden

4.5

12 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Omachishi Tokiwa 9729-2

A garden situated along Prefectural Route 334 in Tokiwa, Omachi City. Like the La Costa brand of natural healing cosmetics, the garden is dedicated to the concept of the vitality and healing abilities of plants, and here visitors can see beautiful flowers, take in the scent of growing plants, enjoy the sound of flowing water, and experience beauty and healing with all five senses.

多種多様な植栽。季節的にバラは少なかったがそれを補って余りあるカラーリーフ、カラフルな宿根草。広々とした庭園の風格ある池の周囲にはダリア。池の奥には滝。今まで見たことないような本格的なロックガーデン。散策できる山道。小鳥の声、沢の音。青々とした芝生を背景に風に揺れる背の高いグラス類。日本にこんな豪華で繊細でナチュラルな庭園ガーデンがあったのかと度肝を抜かれた。
Museum & Cottage Morinoouchi

4.0

12 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Pref. Aduminoshi Hotakariake 2215-9

This is an art museum within Akamatsu Forest, Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture, displaying mainly the original pictures from contemporary picture books from Japan and abroad. They collect original pictures from works such as Bernadette Watts’ The Little Match Girl and Delia Cancela’s “Alice in Wonderland,” and several times a year hold planned exhibits. They give particular attention to the works of Kenji Miyazawa. There are a number of facilities including library with around 8,000 picture books, a museum shop, and cafe where one can enjoy handmade cake and lunch. Also popular as a wedding venue, cottage accommodation is available too.

かわいい看板なので通過！Uターン（笑）！木漏れ日の中に普通のお家のように佇む美術館。ちょっと寄ってみない？気に入ってもっとと望むなら、足を延ばしてちひろ美術館へどうぞ！おべんとうもってアルプス眺めて池の周囲の公園で、絵本読みながら半日のんびり。絵本三昧の１日。
Omachi Energy Museum

3.0

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Omachi-shi Taira 2112-38

This fun and educational museum uses models and experiment exhibits to reveal the hidden fundamentals behind how energy can be transformed into heat, light, movement, and electricity. Museum exhibits also include a real, now retired water turbine, and visitors can follow the history of the development of hydraulic power as well.

子ども向けと聞いていたけど、理系を選んだ後の学年以上向けかと思うくらい内容は高度。ボタンを押したら装置が動く展示が多様にあり、楽しみながら学べます。難しいことが分からなくても、レトロな展示を見るだけでも楽しめます。
Yukio Tabuchi Memorial Museum

3.5

11 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Aduminoshi Toyoshinaminamihotaka 5078-2

This memorial hall is dedicated to Yukio Tabuchi, an insect researcher and nature photographer, and it is located along Prefectural Route 310 in Toyoshinaminamihotaka, Azumino City. There are approximately 73,000 works, including miniatures that he created before color photography in order to capture the beauty of butterflies. Experience the beauty of Azumino’s natural scenery through Yukio Tabuchi’s work.

大王わさび農園がほど近い安曇野に、田淵行男記念館がありました。私は、こちらの記念館を訪れるまで知りませんでしたが、田淵行男という人は、有名な昆虫生態研究家で自然写真家です。この記念館で一番印象に残ったのは、「ギフチョウ」というチョウの絵です。田淵行男は、まだカラーフイルムの無い時代、本物の美しさを持ったチョウの図鑑を作りたい、との想いからチョウの細密画を書き始めたそうです。その絵は、本物以上...
Gofukuji Temple

4.5

9 Reviews

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Uchida 2573

This Chisan (sect of Shingon Buddhism) temple famous as a Japanese mountain ascetism temple is on Mt. Hachibuse located in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. It enshrines items such as an 11-headed Kanzeon Bodhisattva, and possessed various Important Cultural Properties including a Deva gate. Famous for warding off evil, the Yakuyoke Ennichi Taisai festival held every January is visited by many worshippers.

素敵だった「牛伏川フランス式階段工」の後に訪問しました。「牛伏川フランス式階段工」のちょっと手前にあるんですが、もっと手前のそば処坂口茶屋の所に牛伏寺の寺号標と参道の入口があり、そこから参道を登った所、道に草木が生茂り過ぎて進むことが出来ませんでした。かつての参道だったんでしょうか？そこから牛伏川沿いの道を進むと道の脇に牛堂なるお堂があり、その先に「牛伏川フランス式階段工」に向かう道とは別に山...
Nawate-dori Street

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Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Ote 4-3-21

This is a shopping area between the southern moat of Matsumoto Castle and the Metoba River, named Nawate-dori Street since it has a long bank much like a rope. It is the reimagining of an Edo period castle town, with 50 shops lined up selling items like antiques and cheap sweets. The area is dotted with stone statues of the Nawate-dori Street symbolic frog, and it is a popular shopping spot just to walk around for both adults and children.

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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.