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  • Togariishi Museum of Jomon Archaeology
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    4.5
    65 Reviews
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    Nagano Chino-shi Toyohira 4734-132
    This museum is located inside the Togaishi Ruins, a historic site and park which is considered one of the best examples of Jomon culture sites found at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. The museum displays around 2,000 artefacts created by the Jomon people, who flourished here 5,000 years ago. The area at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains is the location of one of the largest caches of obsidian, a material used to make stone tools, in Japan, and it is believed the Jomon people flourished here due to the forests which grew here and provided broadleaf tree seeds as well as ample deer, wild boar, and river fish hunting. The museum's Jomon Venus, a deformed depiction of a pregnant woman; and Masked Goddess statue are valuable cultural properties which have been designated National Treasures.

    I went there after seeing the English website and being super excited about getting to do some hands-on craft. After extensive web research, I managed to get there on a day they were open and...

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  • Okaya Silk Museum (Silk Fact Okaya)
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    4.5
    17 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Okayashi Gouda 1-4-8
    "This silk museum is in Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture lets you learn about the history of silk and more. It also has a silk reeling studio that's open to visitors. Stop by the Mayu-chan Kobo workshop to try your hand at ""cocoon crafts"" and hand weaving. The museum is popular with locals and tourists alike."

    こちらは《シルク岡谷の絹産業遺産（近代化産業遺産群）》全15件中 No10&12...

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  • Prince & Skyline Museum
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    4.5
    17 Reviews
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    Nagano Pref. Okayashi Uchiyama 4769-14 In Toriihee Yamabiko Park
    This Nissan Skyline museum is in Toriidaira Yamabiko Park in Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture. It has exhibits on the automobile maker's Skyline model, including various parts. Events like talk shows are held several times a year, and lots of car fans visit since the museum's considered sacred ground for the Skyline. It is open from mid-April to mid-November and closes for the winter.

    This little museum is packed with a remarkable collection of pertinent historical vehicles. From the Winning Calsonic Skyline GTR to early Prince vehicles, even a factory cutaway of the R32 skyline...

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  • Shimosuwa Konjakukan Oideya, Watch and Clock Museum Gishodo
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    Nagano Suwa-gun Shimosuwamachi 3289
    "A 10-minute walk from Shimosuwa Station on the JR Chuo Main Line. Shimosuwa is known as the birthplace of the modern clock in Japan, and ""Shimosuwa Konjakukan Oideya"" is a museum where you can learn about how clocks work. The courtyard has the world's first fully restored and operational water-powered astronomical clock tower. They also have an experiential program where you can assemble a mechanical watch under the guidance of a nationally qualified technician. You can take the completed watch home with you the same day. You can also learn about the local culture and obsidian during the Jomon period at the adjacent ""Hoshigato Museum Yanoneya""."
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  • Suwa City Museum
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    Nagano Suwa-shi Nakasu Jinguji 171-2
    "A museum with the theme of ""Time, Nature, and Faith"" in the Suwa area, known for the septennial Onbashira Festival and Lake Suwa's Omiwatari phenomenon. It showcases the background and distinguishing features of Suwa's special beilef through video and displays of cultural properties. The special exhibition room displays about 2,000 specimens of butterflies from around the globe. There is also an illustrated encyclopedia published by a British zoologist on birdwing butterflies. There are few like it in the world. The red installation in front of the museum represents the shrine's torii gate and the pillars of the Onbashira Festival. They face the sacred mountain nearby."
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  • Chino City Yatsugatake Museum
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    Nagano Chino-shi Toyohira 6983
    A 20-minute drive from the Suwa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. This large museum focuses on the wilderness sprawling at the foot of Yatsugatake Mountains and the people who live there, including exhibits on local history, industry, and folk customs. Nature exhibits include a natural history of the area and plant specimens and stuffed examples of animals living in here. Historical exhibits include presentations of life in the area from the Paleolithic to the modern day, everyday tools, and farming implements, as well as information on how kanten algae gelatin, a local traditional industry is made; and misinformation about the Nagano region. The museum also holds shows utilizing a mobile planetarium.
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  • Hachimitsu-gura
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    Nagano Chino-shi
    "A small museum adjoining the Gin no Saji inn which introduces the wonders of honey and beekeeping. The museum building is constructed in a unique local style used to build storehouses known as ""tategurumi;"" the front plaster facade incorporates a kote-e relief of a bee. An exhibition room and shop selling primarily domestic honey and honey-related knickknacks are located on the first floor; the museum's tasting course, in which participants get to compare the taste and aroma of over 20 varieties of honey, is particularly popular."
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  • Kirigamine Glider Fureai-kan
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    Nagano Suwa-shi Kamisuwa 13338-1
    "A 30-minute drive from the Suwa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. This facility with a glider hangar, was built in here 1997 in part because of the area's history as the birthplace of gliding in Japan and its culture of gliding. The facility has a standing exhibition visitors are free to view in which are display the Hato, Taka, and Tobi, unique gliders designed in the so-called ""Kirigamine style;"" a Tondokoro Mk II, a model descended from Japan's first domestically produced glider; and several other gliders. The facility also shows three glider-related movies. Admission is free, but the facility is closed in winter."
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  • Suwa Education Museum
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
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    Nagano Suwa-shi Suwa 1-23-10

    諏訪市、その周辺の出土物、動植物の標本などを展示している、小さな博物館です。いろいろな研究もおこなわれているようですが、観光でわざわざ訪問するほどの内容でもありません。

  • Bakeishi no Mori Kashiwagi Museum
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    Nagano Chino-shi Kitayama 5513
  • Shimosuwamachi History Folk customs Museum
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    Nagano Suwa-gun Shimosuwa Municipal Machi 3530-1
  • Local Gakushukan
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    Nagano Okaya-shi Osachi Shiba Miya 3-9-3
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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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