Get the most excitement on your limited time budget
Due to the limited pages, here is only part of the typical sight-seeing spots and outdoor activity spots. Besides the places that we have introduced, there are still a lot of worth-going spots around. We are always ready to provide you other suggestions and plans according to your time budget and preferences. We hope you feel your trip enjoyable and meaningful.
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam is in the Kurobe Gorge which is surrounded by majestic nature. This reaching 492 meters boasts of the nation’s tallest dam of 186 meters arch-type dam of the total dam storage volume is about 200 million square meters. Look at a magnificent view from the observation tower and enjoy walks around the dam.
Yuki-no-Otani - The huge snowy wall
When you visit the Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route in spring, don’t miss the world-famous huge snowy wall of “Yuki-no-Otani”. This is a wall of snow which is made by road snow plowing near the Murodo Station. So called “Yuki-no-Otani” is the wall area stretching about 500 meters wide. Otani, snowdrift that makes much snow coverage, the height of the snow wall may exceed 20 meters. You can walk along the snow wall road at the event of “Yuki-no-Otani Snow Wall Walk”. It is a famous tourist destination where many tourists visit every year.
Nishina Sanko - The Nishina Three Lakes
Nishina-Sanko Lakes are located from south to north in between the Northern Japan Alps and the Higashi-yama mountains. It is the only natural lake that is made above Fossa Magna. The Chikuni-Kaido highway, connected from the Japan Sea to Shinshu, runs along the Nishina-Sanko three lakes. The Salt Road, carried through salt and the sea products from the Japan Sea that was fundamental part of everyday life, tells the history in now.
Nakayama Kogen
Nakayama Kogen Plateau, located in the east of Lake Kizaki-ko, is a beautiful flowery tourist destination where rape-blossoms field spreads out in spring and soba flower comes out in late summer. It is famous for a TV-drama location of “Ohisama” which had broadcasted by NHK in 2011. A clip from the drama has done a shoot here at the rape-blossoms field. You will be possibly to see “the pond of illusion” that appears along with the thaw in the early spring.
Lake Kizaki-ko
Lake Kizaki-ko is well maintained and closest to the city area. The lake is popular nationwide as a thriving land of various kinds of water-sports such as wind-surfing, sail boating, canoeing, and angling. Besides, you can also enjoy camping and cycling at the campsite in the west side of the lake. Lake Kizaki-ko became the backdrop of one of Japanese anime “Onegai Teacher” and “Onegai Twins” that invites a lot of fans.