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  • Honjin (Tsumago Juku)
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Pref. Kisogunnagisomachi Aduma
    Restored in 1995, Honjin served as lodging for feudal lords passing through. The Shimazaki family oversaw it starting with the establishment of the post town system and acted as village leaders as well until the Meiji Period (1868-1912) when it was demolished. The final owner was Shimazaki Toson’s older brother Hirosuke. Also, their mother was born there. The Honjin you see today was restored based on pictures from the Shimazaki family collection. When you visit, you’ll see models of even earlier versions of the building, and there’s a traditional irori hearth that they light every day. You can visit the Honjin, Wakihonjin Okuya, and Nagiso (town) Museum of History with a single ticket.
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  • Rinsenji Temple
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    3.0
    11 Reviews
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Agematsumachi Agematsu 1704
    A Buddhist temple located in Agematsu Town, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. The grounds encompass an observatory with a commanding view of Nezame no Toko, a picturesque destination on the Kiso River which has also been designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty; and a treasure house museum whose exhibits include a fishing rod said to have belonged to the legendary Urashima Taro. Each month on the 29th (excluding in winter), the Nezame Market is held on the grounds, and here you can purchase local specialty products.

    お寺の中に寝覚の床への入り口があるとのことだったので、こちらを経由して行きましたが、どうやら他の場所からも寝覚の床へ降りることができるようでした。（遠いのかもしれません） お寺自体は、見応えがあるような感じではありませんでしたが、入場料200円となっています。

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  • Narakawa Historical and Folklore Museum
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
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    Nagano Shiojiri-shi Narai 68
    An 18-minute walk from Narai Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. This museum is located at the entrance to the Torii Pass and was opened in 1973. Here visitors can experience how the lives of the people of Kiso changed between the time the area was a post station town in the Edo period through the Meiji and Taisho periods and on into the Showa period. The museum building is modeled after a traditional Japanese home. The first floor primarily contains displays of tools and everyday items used in the Edo period, and here visitors will feel like they've traveled back in time. Exhibits include actual implements still used in festivals held by Shizume Shrine today, everyday folk articles dating to as far back as the Edo period, and other folk materials, as well as inn tags used as currency in post station towns.

    2022年11月4日に訪問すると こちらは（土）（日）（祝）のみの開館（添付 写真参照）となっていましたので こちらを訪問予定されている方は この点留意願います。[奈良井宿]内の他の2施設[中村家住宅（櫛問屋）国重要文化財][手塚家住宅（上問屋史料館）国重要文化財]は 特に問題なく入館出来ました。

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  • Takabocchi Highlands
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    Nagano Pref. Shiojirishi Kataoka
    A highland situated along the Takabocchi Skyline road in Kataoka, Shiojiri City. Sprawling at the foot of 1,665-meter-tall Mt. Takabocchi, the highland is a renowned picturesque destination and offers a 360 panoramic view of the area, including Lake Suwa, Yatsugatake, Mt. Fuji, and the Akaishi Mountains.
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  • Shiojiri City Hiraide Historical Museum
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
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    Nagano Shiojiri-shi Soga 1011-3
    A museum situated along the scenic Shinonome no Michi road a 10-minute drive from the Shiojiri Interchange on the Nagano Expressway. Hiraide is the location of the Hiraide ruins, one of Japan's three largest archeological sites, and this museum primarily displays around 20 thousand pottery and stone tools excavated at the site dating to between the Jomon period and the Heian period. Some of the objects on display are extremely valuable and rare, such as the Prefectural Treasure-designated Shibamiya Dotaku bell; and the Shobusawa Gato spire, Japan's largest at 232 centimeters tall. The museum also holds events which enable participants to experience what life was like for Japan's ancient peoples, such as fire starting, pottery making, and magatama comma-shaped stone jewel making classes. The museum has designed the events to enable children to experience the wonders of ancient times, as well.

    こちらの展示は 館内と屋外に分かれており 展示物が種々ありますが 最も印象に残ったのは 館内の展示物として《菖蒲沢瓦塔 奈良時代 高さ232cm 全国に残る瓦塔では 高さNO.1 とのこと》、屋外では《登り窯 奈良時代》でした。《登り窯》も 全国あちこちで鑑賞したことありましたが [奈良時代]の《登り窯》となると 非常に珍しいのではないでしょうか。なお こちらは 公共交通を利用して 訪問出来ない場...

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  • Joshoji Temple
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Okuwamura Suhara 831-1
    A Buddhist temple located in Suhara, Okuwa Village, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. Founded by the 11th head of the Kiso clan, the temple is the oldest along the Kisoji road and is located on the outskirts of what was once the prosperous Nakasendo Road post station town of Suhara-juku. The temple's main gate, kitchen, and main temple building have been designated National Important Cultural Properties.

    木曽郡大桑村須原にある臨済宗妙心寺派の寺院。木曽町の興禅寺、長福寺とともに木曽三大寺のひとつ。日本最古の「蕎麦切り」に関する文書が発見されている。

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  • The Site of Masugata
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Nagiso Machi Azuma Tsumagoshuku
    The road is located in Agatsuma, Minami-Kiso Town, Kiso-gun, and has been selected as a national Important Preservation District for Traditional Buildings. The remains of this road are still preserved today, allowing visitors to catch a glimpse of what remains of those days.

    「枡形」というのは、宿場の防御のための施設です。街道を2度直角に曲げて、外敵が浸入しにくいようにつくられたものです。その跡が、妻籠宿のほぼ中心部にありました。 道は、鋭く直角には曲がっていませんが、大きく湾曲しています。メインの通りの少し離れた横に側道のようにもう一本の道が通っています。宿場を守る、大事な施設だったんですね。

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  • Takase Museum
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Kiso-gun Kisomachi Fukushima Sekimachi 4788
    "A museum located in Seki-machi Fukushima, Kiso Town, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. The museum operates out of the old Takase residence, the home of the family author Toson Shimazaki's older sister married into and a motif in his novel ""The Family."" The museum contains exhibits on Shimazaki as well as displays containing items such as tools used in making medicines, the business of the family that lived here."

    200円払って入ると、高瀬家の娘さんが家や宿場の歴史、藤村の事等を話してくれました。長い一族の歴史が現在まで語り継がれている事に感心、話しも面白くて楽しめました。

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  • Tsumago-juku Tourist Information Office
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Pref. Kisogunnagisomachi Aduma 2159-2
    Built in 1897 at the former Azuma Village Police Station, this historical building was later used for many years as the village office. It was redeveloped as a tourist information center and free resting place in 1979, and provides information related to tourist attractions in the Tsumago-juku area on the Nakasendo Road, and nearby accommodations, eateries and sightseeing spots.
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  •  Lacquer Art Hanaikada
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Pref. Shiojirishi Narai 579
    The owner was attracted to the lacquerware made nearby and opened this shop after studying at Kiso Lacquer Institute. His original works and local artists’ works are displayed and available for sale. Inside you will find utensils, clothing, accessories, wild vine baskets and more. Among the recommended items would be the “sugisara”—born from its use of Natural Monument Yakushima cedars, which were felled by the typhoon. The lacquerware includes many everyday easy-to-use pieces.

    冬だったので他のお店は閉まっていて、口コミで評判の良いこちらに立ち寄りました。奈良井宿の事を色々を教えて頂いたり楽しい時間を過ごせます。 置いてある物もセレクトされていて星野リゾートで使われていると言うオリジナルの和菓子用切りを茶道をたしなんでいる方にお土産に購入しました。 時間があればゆっくり自分用の物も見たかった。

  • Roadside Station Osakada Park
    Transportation
    Nagano Pref. Shiojirishi Shiojirimachi 1090 within Kozakado Park
    A roadside station located in Osakada Park along National Route 20 in Shiojiri-machi, Shiojiri City. The station sells local specialty products such as famous Shiojiri wines, liquors, Shinshu miso, and Kiso lacquerware, as well as farm-fresh produce. The station's restaurant serves Shinshu soba noodles, Hakuba brand pork rice bowls, curry made with Shinshu vegetables, and other dishes created based on the concept of local production for local consumption. The station also holds events once a month such as a farm-fresh produce exhibition.
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  • Roadside Station Hiyoshi Kisokoma Kogen
    Transportation
    Nagano Pref. Kisogunkisomachi Hiyoshi 4730-3
    This roadside station is on the Nakasendo Road in Hiyoshi, Kiso Town. They sell the traditional salt-free Kiso tsukemono pickle known as sunki, fermented with lactic-acid bacilli. They also offer locally grown produce, local sake, finished goods, and crafts. The eatery serves set meals, rice bowls with a Kiso flair, and homemade soba noodles crafted from local flour. There's an outdoor stand selling snacks like gohei mochi sticks, and an information area, too.
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  • Shiojiri City Museum of Natural History
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Shiojiri-shi Shiojirimachi 1090
    A seven-minute taxi ride from Shiojiri Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. A fun and educational destination for adults and children alike, this museum has a variety of exhibits on the natural world, animals, and insects, and also hold special seasonal exhibitions. The museum's nature watching events, held throughout the year, enable participants to see seasonal plants and animals in the wild, including the wilderness of Kamikochi and waterfowl on the Saigawa Swan Lake. The museum holds five special exhibitions a year as well as plant painting exhibitions, insect specimen exhibitions, and a variety of events. The museum shop's cardboard 3D insect puzzles are particularly popular.

    道の駅でトイレ休憩しようと思い、駐車場に入ると、、、。何と、博物館のような施設が。塩尻市立自然博物館と書かれている。時間的にも余裕があったので、入館。入口横には妖怪あまびえの像が。館内は、高ボッチ高原などの動物・植物の紹介展示となっている。特に、蝶の標本が多く展示されている。キジ・鹿のはく製展示は今にも動き出しそう。地下には、翌日からの特別展示（野鳥の切り絵）の準備が進んでいた。

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  • Postal Museum
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Pref. Kisogunnagisomachi Aduma 2197-5
    This historical museum is located in Nagiso Town, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture, and adjoins the Tsumago Post Office, which is still in use today. Tsumago Post Office was featured in Toson Shimazaki’s “Before the Dawn,” and was restored under the guidance of the current Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in fiscal year 1978. It has Japan’s only black mail box modeled after that in use when the post office first opened. Inside you can find Japan’s first stamp, the actual marks used before the current postal mark, correspondence from Toson Shimazaki’s older brother and niece, and other items for a total of approximately 270 articles being stored and exhibited.
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  • Roadside Station Kiso-Narakawa
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    Nagano Pref. Shiojirishi Kisohirasawa 2272-7
    This roadside station is on the Nakasendo Road in Kiso-Hirasawa, Shiojiri City. It consists of the Narakawa Market, which sells agricultural products and finished goods, a specialty shop selling Kiso woodwork, comestibles, and local sake, and the Kiso Kurashi Kogeikan that has a cafe and restaurant. The Kogeikan also has halls, workshops, and galleries. With a reservation, you can try making lacquerware.
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  • Tsumago-juku Kosatsuba
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    Nagano Pref. Kisogunnagisomachi Aduma Wife Hostel
    This replica of a kosatsuba (old public notice board) is located in Nagiso-machi, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. The kosatsuba showed prohibitions and laws to the common people from the shogunate government and is similar to government bulletin boards today, and it is characterized by its appearance of looking down on people as if portraying the power of the shogun. The real one is on display at the Nagiso-machi Museum.
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  • Kiso Lacquerware Museum
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nagano Shiojiri-shi Kisohirasawa 2324-150
    A 10-minute walk from Kiso-Hirasawa Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. This museum was remodeled and reopened in June 2001. The museum collects and displays 3,729 designed National Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties, examples of Kiso lacquerware and the tools used to create this craft, and items created by artisans designated Living National Treasures and Living Prefectural Treasures. Particularly eye-catching are the lacquerware face washing basins and the vessels and boxes used to transport food as part of high etiquette from the middle ages to the early modern period. The museum also holds events in which visitors can try lacquering, decorate chopsticks, or watch as a master creates lacquerware.

    平沢宿にある漆器の資料館。 周辺には漆器の会社があちこちにあるし、ちょっと紛らわしいです。展示は、木曽だけでなく、全国的に有名な作家の作品もありました。

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  • Okuwa-mura History and Folk Museum
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Okuwamura Tono 1-58
    A museum located in Tono, Okuwa Village, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. The museum displays historical items such as implements used as part of daily life when the area was a flourishing Nakasendo Road post station town. Here visitors can learn about the village's history as a post station town; the village's history of forestry; and the relationship between the town, its hydroelectric power station, and the Kiso River.

    縄文土器から蓄音機まで、様々な骨董品が並んでいます。 昭和時代のスペースが好きです！ 子どもと行った時には、メンコやおはじき、オルガンで遊びます。

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  • Atera Gorge
    Travel / Tourism
    Nagano Pref. Kisogunokuwamura Nojiri (Arenda National Forest)
    The Atera River is a distributary of the Kiso River. The area from the water source to where it meets the Kiso River is the “Atera Gorge.” Due to the beautiful color of the clear stream sparkling emerald green, it is also called “Atera Blue.” It is especially recommended in the autumn season for the colors of the leaves.
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  • Roadside Station Mitake
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    Nagano Pref. Kisogunkisomachi Mitake 10491-9
    A roadside station standing along Prefectural Route 20 in Mitake, Kiso Town. The station sells fresh vegetables and other produce from local farms. The adjoining Mitake Gourmet Kobo produces additive-free processed agricultural products and sells a variety of Japanese pickles and side dishes like winter-only sunki-zuke red turnip pickles. The station also holds a variety of events such as a harvest festival in fall.
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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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