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Togakushi Jinja
Five shrines in all, including Okusha, Chusha and Hokosha. The avenue of cedars running about 500 metres to Okusha is famous. The name comes from the myth in which the rock thrown from the heavenly cave became Mount Togakushi.
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Togakushi Okusha
It stands at the end of an avenue of cedars some 500 metres long, enshrining the deity who threw the heavenly rock door.
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Kuzuryusha
The land deity, held to be older than Okusha. A god of rain and of toothache.
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Minakamiyama
It carries a tradition of being the oldest pyramid in the world. A mountain of shugendo practice.
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Okaidan Meguri
You feel your way along a pitch-dark corridor, and touching the lock is said to promise rebirth in paradise.
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Zenkoji Nakamise
The gate town of Zenkoji, known for the saying about being led to Zenkoji by an ox.
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Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.
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Higashiyama Kaii Gallery
Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.
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Kitano Museum of Art
A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
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Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.
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Togakushi Bamboo Craft
Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.
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Shinshu Shinmachi Museum of Art
A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.
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Hoshina Onsen
A day-use hot spring in Wakaho, Nagano City. Its free-flowing spring water is not diluted, and it looks down on the night view of the city.
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Hokusai Museum Parking Lot
Built by Takeda Shingen as his base for the battles of Kawanakajima, later the seat of the Sanada. Gate and stone walls have been rebuilt.
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Holds documents, arms and daimyo effects handed down in the Sanada family, beside the Matsushiro castle site.
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Seseragi Greenway
One of the five shrines of Togakushi. Three cedars over 800 years old stand here, and a Kano-school dragon is painted on the hall ceiling.
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Baishoji Temple
A domain school planned by the eighth lord Sanada Yukitsura on the model of Mito's Kodokan. The original buildings remain; a national historic site.