Matsumoto
Sugadaira Kogen Snow Resort
The oldest surviving keep of five roofs and six floors in Japan. It began as Fukashi Castle in the Warring States period, and its black and white stand out against the Northern Alps.
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Hokushin Taxi
About 1,400 years old. Its principal image, a triple Amida under one halo, is held to be the oldest Buddhist statue in Japan. The main hall, rebuilt in 1707, is a national treasure.
NaganoNature & SceneryMatsumoto
Hoshina Onsen
Within Chubu-Sangaku National Park, a special national scenic site and natural monument. From the Kappa bridge you see the Azusa River and the Hotaka peaks.
NaganoNature & SceneryOmachi
Kita-Alps Tembo Ikeda Shokudo Shinkukan
A hundred kilometres from Omachi to Toyama, crossing the Northern Alps by a chain of vehicles.
NaganoNature & Scenery
NaganoHot SpringsUeda
Farmhouse Inn Refugio Lapas
An old spring called the Kamakura of Shinshu, with national treasures and important cultural properties gathered around it.
NaganoNature & SceneryKomoro
Hokusai Museum Higashimachi Parking Lot
Komoro Castle, abolished in 1871, was bought back by former retainers and made a park, designed by Seiroku Honda.
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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.
NaganoNature & SceneryMatsumoto
Municipal Matsumura Parking Lot
Opened in 1873 and newly built in 1876 in quasi-Western style. An octagonal tower rises at its centre; it is a national treasure as school architecture.
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H&N Parking Lot
Holds documents, arms and daimyo effects handed down in the Sanada family, beside the Matsushiro castle site.
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Municipal Mori-no-Chushajo
The 42nd of the 69 stations of the Nakasendo. The first post town in Japan to preserve its streetscape, and the largest such area in the country.
NaganoNature & SceneryNagano
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.
Yamanouchi
Obuse Open Garden
A hot-spring street of wooden buildings and stone paving. Custom has visitors tour its nine public baths in yukata and wooden sandals.
NaganoHot SpringsAchi
Chikuma River Park (Riverside Park)
Strongly alkaline at pH 9.7, it is called the bath of fine skin. Inns line both banks of the Achi River.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Chikuma River Cherry-Blossom Embankment
Holds Hokusai's brush paintings and drafts, with two festival floats whose ceilings he painted.
Ueda
Hayashi-no-Komichi
The only wooden octagonal three-storey pagoda in Japan, and the first building in Nagano to be named a national treasure.
Iida
Nakamachi Komichi
A hot spring beside the scenic Tenryu gorge. Its radon content is among the highest in Japan — a stop after the river boat or fruit picking.
Azumino
Kuri-no-Komichi
A free footbath named after the Hachimen Daio legend of Azumino, fed from the Hotaka hot springs.
Shiojiri
Jinya Koji
A road branching from Seba on the Nakasendo toward Zenkoji. Gohara post town keeps its original plots and water channels.
Ueda
Fukushima Masanori Senryozutsumi
A museum for Shotaro Ikenami, who wrote Sanada Taiheiki, with a permanent display and a theatre.
Nagano
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.
Kiso
Tsuzura Castle Ruins
At about 2,900 metres, the highest alpine lake in Japan, its water clear and blue.
NaganoShrines & TemplesUeda
Ganta Greater and Lesser Castle Ruins
With Kenchoji in Kamakura, one of the oldest Rinzai Zen temples in Japan. It later became Soto.
Komoro
Ouse Shrine
About 400 trees, centred on the riding ground above the Chikuma River. Many varieties bloom at different times, so the season is long.