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長野県 · Regional selections

OBUSE Hanaya

豊丘村

At the spring festival, men and women turning twenty offer a dance. It began as a memory made before conscription.

長野県 · Regional selections

Cyclo Winery / Cyclo Vineyard

茅野市

A lounge with 30,000 books and an open-air bath along a mountain stream, with rooms named for writers connected with Tateshina.

長野県 · Regional selections

cafe' + Delight

木曽町

A museum honouring Kiso Yoshinaka. Refitted in 2021, it sets contemporary art among the historical displays.

長野県 · Regional selections

Obuse Chuka Soba Takano

山ノ内町

From Hasuike in the Shiga uplands, a gondola and lifts carry you up to walk the alpine plant zone at 2,000 metres.

長野県 · Regional selections

Shinetsu Shizenkyo Iiyama-eki Kanko Annaijo

阿智村

A campsite in the village ranked first for the brightest stars in the Environment Ministry's national night-sky survey.

長野県 · Regional selections

Picture Book Museum & Cottage Mori no Ouchi

小諸市

An Edo-period main inn and an important cultural property. The interior is closed, but since 2023 the main house has held an Italian restaurant.

長野県 · Regional selections

ICHI cafe

大町市

A route from the Omachi Alpine Museum to the summit of Mount Takagari, opening on a view of the Northern Alps.

長野県 · Regional selections

Takazawa Shuzo

南木曽町

The first true hot spring found in the Nagiso area. Rain falling on sacred Mount Nagiso comes back out through the ground.

長野県 · Regional selections

Matsusendo

伊那市

Ina is held to be the birthplace of cut soba noodles — the place to trace Shinshu soba to its origin.

長野県 · Regional selections

Tsumago Kanko Annaijo

佐久市

Holds Ikuo Hirayama's Transmission of Buddhism and Denchu Hiragushi's Ryokan and Pomegranate, with works by Taikan Yokoyama and Kaii Higashiyama.

長野県 · Regional selections

Adamas

東御市

A winery begun in 2006 by clearing abandoned farmland gone to scrub. It still works six hectares while bringing more land back.

長野県 · Regional selections

Kanmi Kissa Sanada-tei

長和町

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.

長野県 · Regional selections

Umakoshi Yoko Obuse Kinen Art Museum

須坂市

The Fudo and Gongen falls, rising on Mount Neko and Mount Azumaya. A national scenic site among Japan's hundred finest falls.

長野県 · Regional selections

Yakimono-go no Workshop

岡谷市

A winter sight on Lake Suwa. It began with two tundra swans in 1974; now over 200 arrive each year.

長野県 · Regional selections

Yoguri Kashi naka

中野市

A 1,351.5-metre isolated peak on the boundary of Nakano, Yamanouchi and Kijimadaira, one of the hundred famous mountains of Shinshu.

長野県 · Regional selections

Yamashichi Sanso Ten

飯山市

A doll museum in the temple quarter, showing about 100 works at a time by the doll maker Mayumi Takahashi.

長野県 · Regional selections

Hokushin Kouon

富士見町

At 1,200 metres on the southern flank of the Yatsugatake, with undiluted water from a source 1,700 metres down.

山口県 · Regional selections

角島大橋

山口県岩国・柳井・周南

The bridge out to Tsunoshima, crossing white sand and cobalt-blue water. There is no toll.

山口県 · Regional selections

元乃隅神社

山口県萩・長門

Red torii standing in a line toward the Sea of Japan. On some days worship is suspended, so check before going.

山口県 · Regional selections

秋芳洞

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

A hundred metres below Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park. A special natural monument, 17 degrees inside all year, with over ten kilometres of passages.

山口県 · Regional selections

唐戸市場

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The market of Shimonoseki, known for pufferfish. Stall events are held at weekends and on holidays.

山口県 · Regional selections

Tsunoshima

山口県下関・秋吉台・宇部

The island across the Tsunoshima bridge, with fishing, swimming and camping.

山口県 · Regional selections

Ruriko-ji Five-Story Pagoda (Kozan Park)

山口県山口・防府

A national treasure raised in 1442 in memory of Yoshihiro Ouchi, one of Japan's three finest pagodas. Its cypress-bark roof has just been renewed for …

山口県 · Regional selections

湯田温泉

山口県山口・防府

Also called the white fox bath, from a legend of a wounded fox that healed here. The flow is generous and footbaths are many in the town.