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Koshibu Dam
Koshibu Dam in Nakagawa Village and Matsukawa Town. It is an arch dam and manages sediment.
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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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Kita-Alps Tembo Ikeda Shokudo Shinkukan
A hundred kilometres from Omachi to Toyama, crossing the Northern Alps by a chain of vehicles.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Kiso
Tsuzura Castle Ruins
At about 2,900 metres, the highest alpine lake in Japan, its water clear and blue.
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.
Chino
Ryunji Temple
A lift with a 350-metre rise to the main peak of the Kirigamine uplands, two four-seat sections in succession.
Matsumoto
Shounji Temple
Displays on the nature and history of Utsukushigahara — a stop before walking the uplands.
Nagiso
Tsubame Nagaden Taxi
One district of the Tsumago preservation area, with overhanging-beam houses and side fire walls along the highway.
Ikeda
Obuse Guide Center
A town museum looking out to the Northern Alps over farmland, holding works by artists drawn to this country.
Ikeda
Obuse Tourist Information Center
A walk through the streets of Ikeda, with the Alps in view and sake breweries and storehouses close by.
Karuizawa
Obuse Highway Oasis and Roadside Station Oasis Obuse
Karuizawa, Kutsukake and Oiwake, known as the three stations at the foot of Asama. Oiwake thrived at the branch of the Hokkoku highway.
Ina
Highway Oasis Obuse General Park
A middle station on the Ina road, which carried goods into the Ina valley from the Nakasendo, Tokaido and Koshu highways. The house of one of the Takato domain's leading farmers.