Best Visiting Spot List

Ease of access by car and train is outstanding! Enjoy the day with famiky and friends!

About 800 cherry trees blossom along Megurogawa which stretches for about 3.8 kilometers from the Ikejiri-Ohashi area to Kamenokobashi under the Tokyu Meguro Line. There are no facilities such as parks but you can enjoy cherry blossom viewing while having drinks and meals in the cafes and restaurants along the river.

A museum exhibiting works of art under the theme of pumpkins, with a focus on the work of world-famous artist Yayoi Kusama. The museum also has a cafe. [Yayoi Kusama] A painter, avant-garde sculptor and novelist born in Nagano. She began painting pictures based on hallucinations she had in her early childhood. She went to the USA in 1957 and stayed in New York for 18 years, and has also represented Japan at Venice Biennial in 1993. After her retrospective exhibition tour around the US, she held a large-scale, one-woman exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in 1999. In 2001, she won the Asahi Prize. Her work has appeared at the Yokohama Triennale. Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Okuyugawara or Fudo-Taki for about 5 minutes We are five minutes' walk from the Shogakko-Mae bus stop

A ski resort with sweet cakes and fresh bakeries presented by a respected cake brand. A high percentage of blue sky days throughout the season and fabulous snow conditions maintained by snow machines!

Superb access. A close and convenient ski resort. Thanks to our snow machines we are opening one step ahead of other resorts on the 11th November!!

A brewery in Chichibu that produces the sake, Bukou Masamune. The store is in a building that is over 200 years old and is a registered tangible cultural property.

Okukannnabe slopes locate at the highest elevation among ski resorts in the Kannnabe Kogen area, which is 2hrs from Osaka and it is proud of its wide varieties of courses.

[Takes around two hours 20 minutes at a regular pace (or two hours and 30 minutes if walked in the reverse direction) - suitable for regular walkers] A course where you can enjoy the view while touring historic relics dating back to the days when Yugawara was called Doi-go. You will get a feel for the close ties between Yugawara and Yoritomo Minamoto as you take in sights such as Joganji Temple, Sanehira’s family temple, the Doi castle ruins (at the peak of Mt. Shiroyama), and Shitodo Cave. The grassy meadow of the picnic area is a best place to stop and have lunch. The superb view from the top of Mt. Shiroyama enables you to look over Sagami Bay, as well as the Izu Peninsula, and even as far as Hatsushima and Oshima islands.

Only 30min from the Gotemba interchange! Snow Town Yeti is in a superb location, close to Tokyo, where you can ski and snow board with Mt. Fuji in the backdrop.

Famous for ”The Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans”

This famous shrine blossoms in full glory from season to season with its flowers

Enjoy skiing and snow boarding on a total of 15 trails including Hakkaisan's renowned downhill trail, mogul slopes, and deep snow trails.

This is a bronze statue of a character from a popular comic series, ”Captain Tsubasa (Flash Kicker).” Ryo Ishizaki has guts and is a teammate of the leading character, Tsubasa.

RYUOO SKI PARK is known for powder snow & panorama view!!

The Yugawara bathing beach is shallow and very popular with children. Size: 500m x 150m Family huts: about 20 Entry fee: Adults - 1,000 JPY, children - 600 JPY *Does not include parking fees Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Manazuru Station for about 5 minutes We are next to the Yoshihama Koban-Mae bus stop

The only existing merchant house in Kobe Former Foreign Settlement

This information Center, located inside the Atami Station building, provides several sightseeing information about Atami.

A wholesale district for fishery products open to ordinary shoppers. Its motto is ”In small quantity, for anyone and with easy access.”

The artist Kyotaro Nishimura visited Yugawara to rest and recuperate, and he was so enchanted by its climate and people that he decided to live here. The Nishimura Kyotaro Museum was opened in honor of him. In addition to more than 300 of his creations, we also exhibit items that represent his life as a writer, including handwritten manuscripts, large dioramas and his secret collection. Please stop by and get a new insight into the life and work of Kyotaro Nishimura. Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Okuyugawara or Fudo-Taki for about 5 minutes We are three minutes' walk from the Shogakko-Mae bus stop

Let's go to an inspirational place!