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長野県 · Regional selections

Seseragi Greenway

長野市

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.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Open Garden

山ノ内町

A hot-spring street of wooden buildings and stone paving. Custom has visitors tour its nine public baths in yukata and wooden sandals.

長野県 · Regional selections

Chikuma River Park (Riverside Park)

阿智村

Strongly alkaline at pH 9.7, it is called the bath of fine skin. Inns line both banks of the Achi River.

長野県 · Regional selections

Hayashi-no-Komichi

上田市

The only wooden octagonal three-storey pagoda in Japan, and the first building in Nagano to be named a national treasure.

長野県 · Regional selections

Nakamachi Komichi

飯田市

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.

長野県 · Regional selections

Kuri-no-Komichi

安曇野市

A free footbath named after the Hachimen Daio legend of Azumino, fed from the Hotaka hot springs.

長野県 · Regional selections

Jinya Koji

塩尻市

A road branching from Seba on the Nakasendo toward Zenkoji. Gohara post town keeps its original plots and water channels.

長野県 · Regional selections

Fukushima Masanori Senryozutsumi

上田市

A museum for Shotaro Ikenami, who wrote Sanada Taiheiki, with a permanent display and a theatre.

長野県 · Regional selections

Baishoji Temple

長野市

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.

長野県 · Regional selections

Tsuzura Castle Ruins

木曽町

At about 2,900 metres, the highest alpine lake in Japan, its water clear and blue.

長野県 · Regional selections

Ganta Greater and Lesser Castle Ruins

上田市

With Kenchoji in Kamakura, one of the oldest Rinzai Zen temples in Japan. It later became Soto.

長野県 · Regional selections

Ouse Shrine

小諸市

About 400 trees, centred on the riding ground above the Chikuma River. Many varieties bloom at different times, so the season is long.

長野県 · Regional selections

Ryunji Temple

茅野市

A lift with a 350-metre rise to the main peak of the Kirigamine uplands, two four-seat sections in succession.

長野県 · Regional selections

Shounji Temple

松本市

Displays on the nature and history of Utsukushigahara — a stop before walking the uplands.

長野県 · Regional selections

Kotai Shrine

大町市

Kagura offered at the annual festival, with elements of Noh. Seven pieces including a sword dance; a prefectural intangible folk cultural property.

長野県 · Regional selections

Tsubame Nagaden Taxi

南木曽町

One district of the Tsumago preservation area, with overhanging-beam houses and side fire walls along the highway.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Guide Center

池田町

A town museum looking out to the Northern Alps over farmland, holding works by artists drawn to this country.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Tourist Information Center

池田町

A walk through the streets of Ikeda, with the Alps in view and sake breweries and storehouses close by.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Highway Oasis and Roadside Station Oasis Obuse

軽井沢町

Karuizawa, Kutsukake and Oiwake, known as the three stations at the foot of Asama. Oiwake thrived at the branch of the Hokkoku highway.

長野県 · Regional selections

Highway Oasis Obuse General Park

伊那市

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 Taka…

長野県 · Regional selections

Floral Garden Obuse

佐久市

Shows the surviving brushwork of Tenrai Hidai, called the father of modern calligraphy, who was born here.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Rickshaw Haradaya

東御市

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.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Milk

駒ヶ根市

A lodging close to the Senjojiki cirque and climbs in the Central Alps, five minutes by car from the Komagane interchange.

長野県 · Regional selections

Hiramatsu Farm

長和町

The 28th of the 69 Nakasendo stations. Built in 1861, rebuilt in time to lodge Princess Kazunomiya.