Best Spots In Matsumoto-shi

Like a Piece of Painting! The World of Blue and Yellow Covering Everything.Kamikochi

It's the wonderful scenery created by the nature. Colored leaves are like painting and a pond of clear water reflects the sky to be beautiful cobalt blue.

Everyone Thinks 'Beautiful'. The Night Cherry Blossoms At A National Treasure, Matsumoto CastleMatsumoto Castle

Matsumoto Castle has different appearances in each season. The castle tower is illuminated throughout the year. And a season of cherry blossoms is going to start now. The bright castle tower in the darkest sky, and cherry trees around the moat are so beautiful that you may forget the time.◎Admission for the castle tower: adult ￥610, child ￥300. Access: 15 minutes walk from JR Matsumoto Station. Illumination starts after the cherry trees come into blossom.

A Scenic Tower As A Symbol Of Utsukushigahara HighlandsBeautiful Tower (Uruwashi-no Tou)

Uruwashi-no Tou is a symbolic tower of Utsukushigahara Highlands. You can see the clouds stretch below if the weather is good, and enjoy hiking at this wonderful location.

Flower Fields Commanding The Nearby Landing Field & North Alps In The DistanceShinshu Skypark

'North Alps & Flower Hill' in Shinshu Skypark, surrounding Matsumoto Airport, has wonderful flower bed with as many as 150 thousand flowers. Skypark is its nickname, and it's named Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Daira Koiki Koen. It's a main area of Shinshu Flower Festival.

Relaxing In Asama Hot Spring Bath By 'KAI Style'Hoshino Resort KAI Matsumoto

Matsumoto's honor 'Asama Hot Spring' is soft hot water that penetrates gently into your skin. You can enjoy Japanese designs at the thirteen kinds of large bathrooms and open-air bath in the room. Even more, a stone couch a little warmer than body temperature, 'Radiant Bath' can offer you a relax by the way of 'KAI'. Well, it's a kind of paradise!◎Spring quality is alkaline simple hot spring. Two large bathrooms (men & women bathrooms shift regularly). There's a rest area with drinks in the bathroom.

Tableware With The Artist's Thought In A Town Of HandicraftChikiriya Kogei-ten

At beautiful Nakamachi Street with white and black Namako Walls, you can find a shining show window with colorful glass tableware. Let's choose something you think really good. You can get the artist thought in the works and life when you come this shop.◎I bought a rice bowl. I feel warmth in it only it's on a table.

A Special Coffee You Can Drink At A Café With Namako Wall & GaslightCoffee Marumo

A retro café put side of Marumo Ryokan where some activists in folkcraft in Taisho Period had often visited. Many folkcrafts with somewhat nostalgia go well with aroma of coffee. I recommend their delicious cakes, and honey toast is popular, too.◎It's nice to visit here together with Matsumoto Castle. The café is often crowded, you should go with enough time.

The Prime Coffee Brewed With Fabric Filters By The Cafe OwnerKauhiya Sambanchi

Kauhiya Sambanchi is a cafe renovated from a good-old house at the side lane of a tasteful Nakamachi Street in Matsumoto. Vary calm atmosphere comes out from the deep brown, well-polished pillars and floor. In the jazz played from a record, I love this coffee brewed carefully with fabric filter by the cafe owner.

A Retro Coffee Shop Near Matsumoto Station You Must ListCoffee Bigaku Abe

Matsumoto City has many coffee shops, and it's the one located near the station and you can use at ease! The old way to make Latte and completely antique interior are contrary new for me. Their lunch also can make you satisfying.◎Between Nagano and Matsumoto, Shinshu round trip ticket and Express ticket book (4 pieces) are by far most economical. You can buy both at a ticket machine.

Autumn Foliage Of Karasawa Kar You Can See For Only A Few Days In A YearKarasawa Kar

Karasawa Kar located on 2300m spot of Japan Northern Alps. The best season for the autumn foliage would be only a few days, and considering the mountain weather, it's very rare period! The beautiful scenery of colored magnificent rock surfaces is the real pleasure for autumn climbing, isn't it?

Only 5 Minutes Walk From Matsumoto Castle. A Room With A Harmony Of Old & NewMATSUMOTO GUESTHOUSE tabi-shiro

It opened in Matsumoto, Nagano in June of 2016. They renovated a house once used as a ryokan, Japanese traditional style hotel by their own hands. They have a Japanese style room with tatami floor, a wood stove and bar lounge in the center of 1F.

Kusama Yayoi World Is Opening! A Showy Pop Art ' The Visionary Flowers'Matsumoto City Museum of Art

Matsumoto city museum of art in Nagano exhibits many arts by Kusama Yayoi who came from Matsumoto. And in front of the entrance, her work 'The Visionary Flowers' welcomes visitors.