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Yamanashi travel guide

First in Japan for both grapes and peaches. Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Jinja, Takeda Jinja and Minobusan Kuonji, plus Koshu inden leatherwork and crystal carving. Yamanashi, set out category by category.

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    Sightseeing spots

    Scenery and town walks. Find the places you want to go.

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    Koshu · Place · candidate to visit

    Daibosatsu Toge

    The pass road that joined Kai to Musashi. As the name suggests, it was also a road of faith.

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    Kofu · Place · candidate to visit

    Koshu Inden

    Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.

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    Minobu · Place · candidate to visit

    Bodaitei

    Two hundred and eighty-seven stone steps, built to mean that climbing them brings you to nirvana.

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    Shrines & temples

    Learn the history and culture, and prepare for your visit.

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    Fujiyoshida · Place · candidate to visit

    Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Jinja

    The start of the Yoshida trail up Mount Fuji. This was the road the Fuji-ko pilgrims of the Edo period took to the summit. A component of the Fujisan World Cultural Heritage site.

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    Kofu · Place · candidate to visit

    Takeda Jinja

    It enshrines Takeda Shingen. Built on the site of the Tsutsujigasaki residence, it recalls that Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his castle and his stone walls.

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    Minobu · Place · candidate to visit

    Minobusan Kuonji

    The head temple of the Nichiren school. The Bodaitei stairway from the gate to the main hall runs to 287 steps, steep enough to leave you breathless if you climb it in one go.

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    Specialties & souvenirs

    Look up local specialties and save them to your shopping notes.

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    Crafts & industry

    Find ideas for hands-on experiences in craft and industry entries. Check whether visits are accepted.

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    Chateau Mercian Katsunuma Winery

    A winery in Katsunuma. It carries out research on Japanese wine and has widened the possibilities of the Koshu grape.

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    Suntory Tomi no Oka Winery

    Tomi no Oka in Kai. It grows grapes in its own vineyards and uses the differences in elevation to plant different varieties in different places.

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    Manns Wines Katsunuma Winery

    Manns Wines in Katsunuma. Visitors can tour the winemaking process.

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    Art & culture

    Widen your travel themes with art and culture entries.

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    Kofu · Place · candidate to visit

    Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art

    Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.

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    Fuefuki · Place · candidate to visit

    Yamanashi Prefectural Museum

    Themed on the province's rivers and the people who kept living beside them despite the floods.

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    Hokuto · Place · candidate to visit

    Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum

    The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.

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    100 Regional Revitalization Picks

    100 local highlights chosen by each prefecture. Find candidates in nature, food and experiences.

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    Mount Fuji Radar Dome Museum

    A centre in Fujiyoshida displaying the weather radar dome that once stood on the summit of Mount Fuji.

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    Genpoen

    A visitor farm in Yamanashi with grape picking. The prefecture has many such farms.

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    Fuefukigawa Fruit Park

    A prefectural park in Yamanashi City on a hillside, looking down on the Kofu basin and Mount Fuji.

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