Grand Northern Alps ・ Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a travel route passes through 3 cities, 1 town and 2 villages; Itoigawa City and Joetsu city of Niigata Prefecture, Omachi city, Hakuba Village and Otari Village of Nagano Prefecture, and Asahi-machi of Toyama Prefecture. Through this route, you may learn the attractivenesses of both the mountains and the sea in one. Including Happo-One Ski Resort, there is number of high-quality ski resorts. Visitors can also enjoy mountain climbing and trekking during spring to autumn.
Furthermore, you can enjoy the beautiful shoreline of Japan Sea and fresh seafood while traveling along the symbolic castle town where has the Japan`s first Geopark by the submarine volcanic activity of Fossa Magna. Visitors can access by airplane or the world-wide popular Shinkansen between Tokyo or other big cities effectively. Besides, tourists may also choose to ride on a local train to enjoy the rural scenery leisurely, even more, to spend a night in a local farm house for an unprecedented country-life experience.

Orari Village, with forest, snow, and hot springs, invites you to come on in. Well known for two national parks, three ski parks of Tsugaike-Kogen, Hakuba-norikura, and Hakuba-Cortina. Also, there are Amakazari-yama Mountain which is one of the best 100 mountains in Japan and Tsugaike Shizen-en Nature Park, Kama-ike Pond with rich green forest and lake as well as hot spring spas such as Otari-onsen spa and Himekawa-onsen spa in the village.