Obuse Chuka Soba Takano
From Hasuike in the Shiga uplands, a gondola and lifts carry you up to walk the alpine plant zone at 2,000 metres.
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From Hasuike in the Shiga uplands, a gondola and lifts carry you up to walk the alpine plant zone at 2,000 metres.
A garden of 15,000 square metres, the signature site of Obuse, a town of flowers, with beds through the seasons.
A campsite in the village ranked first for the brightest stars in the Environment Ministry's national night-sky survey.
An Edo-period main inn and an important cultural property. It is now under preservation repair, due to be completed in fiscal 2027.
The first true hot spring found in the Nagiso area. Rain falling on sacred Mount Nagiso comes back out through the ground.
Ina is held to be the birthplace of cut soba noodles — the place to trace Shinshu soba to its origin.
Holds Ikuo Hirayama's Transmission of Buddhism and Denchu Hiragushi's Ryokan and Pomegranate, with works by Taikan Yokoyama and Kaii Higashiyama.
A large inn built after the great fire of 1861. Moved back when the road was widened in the Meiji era, its ground floor is open.
The Fudo and Gongen falls, rising on Mount Neko and Mount Azumaya. A national scenic site among Japan's hundred finest falls.
A winter sight on Lake Suwa. It began with two tundra swans in 1974; in recent years, fewer have been arriving.
A 1,351.5-metre isolated peak on the boundary of Nakano, Yamanouchi and Kijimadaira, one of the hundred famous mountains of Shinshu.
A doll museum in the temple quarter, showing about 100 works at a time by the doll maker Mayumi Takahashi.
At 1,200 metres on the southern flank of the Yatsugatake, with undiluted water from a source 1,700 metres down.
Kagura offered at the annual festival, with elements of Noh. Seven pieces including a sword dance; a prefectural intangible folk cultural property.
A rite of driving off the deer and boar that damage forest and fields, performed as the hunting of two straw deer, male and female.
Kagura danced at the festival of the Komagatake Shrine lower hall. Thirteen pieces; a prefectural intangible folk cultural property.
Village theatre handed down for over 300 years. Regular performances are given on a revolving stage at the shrine; a nationally selected intangible folk cultural property.
A festival known for the wild lion of Ajima, with the music of four floats and lion dancing.
At the spring festival, men and women turning twenty offer a dance. It began as a memory made before conscription.