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.
Japan library12,708 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
12,708ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
12,708 entries / page 422 of 530
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.
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.
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.
NaganoNature & ScenerySaku
Floral Garden Obuse
Shows the surviving brushwork of Tenrai Hidai, called the father of modern calligraphy, who was born here.
Tomi
Obuse Rickshaw Haradaya
Opened by Ota ward in Tokyo for residents' rest and school study. Designed by Toyo Ito, with an old house from former Togakushi village as an annexe.
Komagane
Obuse Milk
A lodging close to the Senjojiki cirque and climbs in the Central Alps, five minutes by car from the Komagane interchange.
Nagawa
Hiramatsu Farm
The 28th of the 69 Nakasendo stations. Built in 1861, rebuilt in time to lodge Princess Kazunomiya.
Suzaka
Ganshoin Temple
Held to be one of Japan's three great Fudo temples. Its image is said to have been Uesugi Kenshin's personal Buddha, prayed to at Kawanakajima.
NaganoNature & SceneryOkaya
Genshoji Temple
Okaya was a great silk district from the early Meiji years, known abroad as Silk Okaya. This tells that history and keeps the machines.
Nakano
Jokoji Temple
A museum for Tatsuyuki Takano, who wrote the songs Furusato, Momiji and Oborozukiyo. His birthplace stands 300 metres away.
Aoki
Paraglider Park Aoki
Fly from 1,284-metre Mount Jikkan, with the Shioda plain — the Kamakura of Shinshu — below.