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Kisoji

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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.
Yabu Hara Kogen Kodama no Mori

3.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Kiso-gun Kisomura Ogiso 3362

木祖村グリーンシーズン旅行で寄った公園。メインは隣のやぶはらスキー場のグリーンシーズンってどんなだ？の次いでに寄った。いわゆるキャンプ場で、野外音楽堂、コテージや運動場、テニスコート、迷路、乗り物アクティビティーがあり、渓流釣り、マレットゴルフなども楽しめる。なので家族連れで行くと、木祖の雄大な自然（行くと魅入られる景色がある）の中で遊ぶ事ができる。
Central Alps Komagatake Ropeway

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Komaganeshi Akaho

This mountain ropeway in Nagano Prefecture extends from Komagane City to the Central Alps Senjojiki Cirque (the commonly used name for the area directly under Mt. Hoken in the Central Japan Alps). The ropeway is also Japan's highest. One trip takes around seven and a half minutes. From the platform of the ropeway's terminus, Senjojiki Station, visitors can get a sweeping view of the Southern Japan Alps as well as Mt. Fuji.
Kaida Kogen Ice Cream Factory

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano Pref. Kisogunkisomachi Kaidakougensuekawa 4411-9

This ice cream store is located in Kiso-machi, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. You can get a taste of ice cream made using both freshly squeezed milk of cows raised in Kaida Highland and plenty of seasonal ingredients. In particular, their specially made ice cream cake (reservation required) uses a lot of ice cream, and is one of their popular gift items. In addition to ice cream, they also sell yogurt, butter and cheese using cow's milk.
Lacquer Art Hanaikada

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。
Komakusa no Yu

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Nagano Pref. Komaganeshi Akaho 759-4

Komakusa no Yu is a day-trip spa facility that is in the highlands of Komagane City that offers a great view of the Southern Alps (Akaishi Mountains). The indoor facilities such as the medicinal baths, jet baths, cold baths, and sauna are nice, but the open-air baths allow you to experience nature in all its grandeur. You can see the Chuo Alps (Kiso Mountains) on days where the horizon line between the sky and the Alps is beautifully clear. It’s three minutes by car from the Komagane Interchange on the Chuo Expressway, or 13 minutes on the Shirabidaira-bound bus from JR Komagane Station.
Roadside Station Mitake

Transportation

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.
Shiojiri City Museum of Natural History

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。
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.
Senjojiki Cirque

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Komagane-shi Akaho
Tsumago-juku Kosatsuba

Travel / Tourism

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.
Kiso Lacquerware Museum

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。
Okuwa-mura History and Folk Museum

3.5

3 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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。
Shinsen-ichiba Kikyo

4.5

2 Reviews

Shopping

Nagano Shiojiri-shi Hirokagobara 1350-1

A farmers market located in a grape farm northwest of JR Shiojiri Station. The market sells a wide variety of local foods Shioiri produce such as Niagara grapes and asparagus. The market's selection of wines from local wineries made with Shiojiri's specialty grapes is particularly abundant, such as Kikyo no Sato, a wine crafted with grapes cultivated by the JA Shiojiri agricultural cooperative. The market is also adjoined by a winery operated by JA Shiojiri. In addition, there's a tasting corner where you can purchase any wines that pique your interest.

どこへ旅行してもＪＡの直売所を巡るのが楽しくて好きなのですが、塩尻のこちらも商品が充実していて良かったです。時期的な関係か、或いは塩尻だからでしょうか、リンゴよりもブドウの方が種類豊富に並んでいました。シャインマスカットなどの淡色系、巨峰などの濃色系それぞれ、産地ならではの新鮮さでした。ちょっとキズになったものなどを格安で売っているコーナーもあって、隅々見ていて飽きませんでした。お客さんは圧倒...
Shiojiri Tanka Museum

4.5

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagano Shiojiri-shi Hirokaharashinden 288-1

"A museum operating out of a fascinating old Japanese residence built in 1868 which was dismantled and moved to this site. Located in the center of the city a five-minute drive south of the Shiojiri-kita Interchange on the Nagano Expressway, the museum displays personal belongings and documents belonging to tanka poets connected to Shiojiri. The museum's collection notably primarily consists of letters, hanging scrolls, and poetry anthologies, and the facility focuses on ""poets"" over ""individuals."" The museum also invites celebrated poets to participate in high level tanka poetry classes, and is also used as an event space in order to promote interest in tanka poetry."

塩尻市広丘にある、歌人の資料を飾ってある短歌館があります。広丘は短歌が盛んなので、有名な人たちが昔いっぱいいたみたいです。自分自身もそんなに短歌のことが、詳しいわけでは無いですが、資料を見て調べてみると、歌人の方たちの恋愛話などあって、広丘周辺でのストーリーが書いてありとても面白いです。短歌になじみのない方も、いちど寄ってみてもいいかもしれないです。
Mt. Kisokoma

Travel / Tourism

Kiso-gun, Nagano Prefecture

A mountain which is part of the Kiso Mountains, also known as the Central Alps. 2,956 meters high, the mountain is the highest peak in the range. An area of bowl shaped terrain called the Senjojiki Cirque formed by ice age glacial erosion and located 2,600 meters up the mountain is the starting point for various climbing courses leading up Mt. Kisokoma and to surrounding mountains.
Mt. Ontake

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Kisogunoutakimura Kiso Town

Mt. Ontake, which is located on the boundary of Nagano Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture, is the second highest volcano in Japan after Mt. Fuji, rising to a height of 3,067 meters. Since ancient times, Mt. Ontake was renowned as a sacred mountain, and attracted practitioners of Shugendo (a form of mountain asceticism that combines elements of Shintoism and Buddhism); it is still an object of veneration to this day. Visitors can travel up to the Seventh Station via the Ontake Ropeway; from there, it takes around one hour to walk to the Eighth Station, which is a marvelous place for viewing the autumn foliage (the autumn foliage is at its best from late September through to early October). In summer, from late June through into July, there are many beautiful alpine plants to be seen on the mountain slopes. The restrictions on entering areas near the summit of the volcano are gradually being relaxed, and safety measures have been strengthened, with the establishment of new shelters, etc.
Furusato Taikenkan Kiso-Fukushima

4.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Kiso-gun Kisomachi Shinkai 6959

An activity center situated along National Route 361 in Shinkai, Kiso Town, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. Operating out of a former wooden school building, the center offers a variety of activities in which you can make local foods such as soba noodles, goheimochi broiled rice cake skewers, and enoki hamaki rice cakes wrapped in hackberry leaves; as well as kusaki-zome plant extract fabric dying and other crafts, and tree planting and forest cultivation activities (all activities require an advance reservation). Adjoining facilities include a restaurant, RV park, wooden playground, and gymnasium.

地元の方に勧められて訪れました。廃校になった木造校舎を利用した施設です。お土産屋があり、そば打ち体験もできるようですが今回の訪問目的は、入場料１００円/人で木のおもちゃで２歳の娘と遊ぶこと。色々楽しめましたが、対象適齢年齢は４歳から小学校低学年くらいかな。
Hombo Shuzo Mars Shinshu Distillery

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Pref. Kaminagunmiyadamura 4752-31

This distillery is located at the foot of Mt. Komagatake in Kami-ina County, Nagano Prefecture. You can tour the manufacturing process of Mars Whisky and Minami Shinshu Beer with a reservation. In addition, there is a whiskey-tasting corner, and souvenirs can be purchased in the shop. It is also visited by many tourist groups because it has a parking lot for large buses.
Hananoya Shukuba Branch

3.5

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nagano Shiojiri-shi Narai 738

A 10-minute walk from Narai Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. This shop, located in Shiojiri City, specializes in wooden containers and magemono circular boxes. Magemono are made across the country, with each region's bearing a unique design; the shop's magemono have sides made with Kiso hinoki cypress and covers made with Kiso sawara cypress. All of the shop's boxes and containers are handmade, and, as they are used over the years, the lacquer on areas which are frequently touched will gradually grow brighter and change color. Sure to make a delightful souvenir or gift, Kiso magemono boxes are not only beautiful, they're practical as well - when used as a bento box, they keep rice in its optimum state, preserving the flavor and ensuring it tastes delicious even when cold.

箸や陶器、ガラスのキリコ、漆の湯飲みやお茶碗と地域の民芸品を集めています。価格は割引品があったり、お値打ち価格でした。

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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.