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Nishizawa Valley
The five-tiered Nanatsugama falls. Potholes cut into granite by water run one after another.
Maizuru Park
Stone walls survive and the Inari turret has been restored, right in front of Kofu station.
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
Isawa Onsen
It sprang up suddenly out of a vineyard, and was called the open-air spring.
Matsumoto-jo
A surviving keep, and a National Treasure. The black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle.
Tsumago-juku
The first post town in Japan to take up townscape preservation. Small shrines are dotted along the highway.
Narai-juku
A post town once called Narai of a thousand houses, and a producer of Kiso lacquerware.
Okaidan Meguri
You feel your way along a pitch-dark corridor, and touching the lock is said to promise rebirth in paradise.
Zenkoji Nakamise
The gate town of Zenkoji, known for the saying about being led to Zenkoji by an ox.
Snow Monkey Park
Japanese macaques that bathe in hot springs, said to be the only ones in the world.
Tsumago-juku
The first post town in Japan to take up townscape preservation. The power lines were hidden away.
Bessho Onsen
The Kamakura of Shinshu. Kitamuki Kannon and the National Treasure octagonal pagoda stand close together.
Nozawa Dosojin
A shrine structure is built, then set alight, with the villagers defending and attacking it.
Utsukushigahara
A lava plateau at 2,000 metres, where cattle are put out to graze.