[Yatsugatake Chushin Kogen National Park Takabocchi Highlands] ◇ Overview Takabocchi Highlands is located in the eastern part of Shiojiri City and is a Highlands that spreads out on a gentle slope. From the summit with a 360-degree view, you can fully enjoy the views of the Northern Alps, as well as Suwa Lake, the Southern Alps, and Mt. Fuji. ◇ Seasonal highlights <Spring~Summer> It is also popular for being able to easily observe a wide variety of alpine plants such as Renge azalea, haku Mr./Ms. fuuro, and the scenery where the dairy cow is Grazing from early summer to autumn is idyllic and otherworldly. <Autumn~Winter> You can see the majestic sea of clouds from mid-October. ◇Camping-related Information and Outdoor Experiences In 2021, in response to the growing outdoor boom in recent years, the demand for workations, and the growing interest in Nature environmental protection, we have started outdoor-related projects such as Maintenance camping areas so that people who visit can enjoy them from various directions. ◆To everyone who comes to Takabocchi Highlands Cooking area and other water facilities are not provided, so please prepare your own water. (Restrooms available with Toilet facilities and vending machines for sale of water, etc.) ) ◇Basic Information ーRecommended Seasonー June (Renge azalea), June-October (cattle grazing), late October ~ December (sea of clouds) ーAddressー Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture ーAccessー Access to the Takabocchi Highlands 13km from Shiojiri IC *Closed in winter from early December ~ late April When searching with a car navigation system ※Cliff hot spring routes Please search for "Gunjokaku". (〒399-0071 6114-235 Kataoka, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture Tel: 0263-58-2140) It is about 7 km from Gunjokaku, about 15 minutes. ※Higashiyama routes If "Takabocchi Highlands" is not registered, please register "Higashiyama Community Center (Tel: 0263-56-2485)" Address: 869-4 Former Shiojiri Higashiyama, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture as a guide for the entrance to Takabocchi from National Route 20. ーParking lotー Parking Lot 1 (adjacent to the grass racecourse, free) Parking Lot 2 (summit exit, free) ーToiletー There is a in the first and second parking lots. ーInquiryー 0263-88-8722 (Shiojiri City Tourism Center)

[Notice of the 100th Lake Nojiri fireworks festival Held in] When I thought that the Ume Plum Rain would not come ~ it became Ume Plum Rain ~ it was already July. Summer tradition in Shinano Town! Lake Nojiri Fireworks Festival will be held in again this year! Held in: Saturday, July 27, 2024 Launch start: 19:30 ~ (planned) *Rain or shine Venue: Lake Nojiri On the day of the event, traffic restrictions will be in place around the venue from 18:30. Please see the venue map for traffic restrictions. In addition, this year, the executive committee will not and to set up free parking around the venue. Use a paid shuttle bus runs from [Kurohime Station] and [Kurohime Plateau]. ■Paid shuttle bus information■ (1) Kurohime Station　 (2) Town Management Kurohime Plateau parking lot Scheduled to depart at any time from 16 o'clock. (The last day of Lake Nojiri departs at 21:30) Fee: 500 yen round trip (Adult junior high school students and older), free for elementary school students and younger Payment will be made at the time of boarding. ■Temporary parking lot■ (1) Use the shuttle bus at Kurohime Station 　Please Use the Town Management Kurohime Station West Exit Parking Lot. (2) Those who Use the Kurohime Plateau shuttle bus 　Please Use [Town Management Kurohime Plateau No. 1 Parking Lot]. The 100th anniversary! What kind of fireworks will be launched? ♪ Fun

【Feeding insects in the sun】 Why don't you join us for insect feeding? The traditional event "insect feeding" that has continued since the Edo period It is a festival as a prayer for a good harvest of five grains, the expulsion of evil insects, and the prevention of evil diseases. The light of the torches is reflected in the water of the rice fields, creating an ethereal world. Date & Time: Saturday, July 20, 2024 17:00~ Gathering: Hinata Yakushi 　　　　Odakyu Line Isehara Station North Exit Kananaka Bus Stop No. 3 　　　　"Hinata Yakushi Line" about 20 minutes, get off at Hinata Yakushi terminus, 15 minutes walk to the approach to the temple Participation fee: Free * 500 yen if you have a torch (junior high school students and above) Contact: Secretariat of the Hyuga Insect Feeding Preservation Society 0463-95-0234 (Yamaguchi)

✻ Notice [Diffusion hope] ✻ Held in of festivals【Kanatsu Festival】 Saturday, July 13, 2024 ~ July 15, 2024 (National Holiday) Honjin Ornament Exhibition ✻ July 13 (Sat) Eve Festival Location: Kanazu Shrine Precincts 18:00~20:30 ✻July 14 (Tue) Main Festival festival float procession 3 units ? Closing at Kanazu Shrine 12:00 Stalls is also Stalls.

Sunday, July 7 Sunset Village Kids Festa ~Tanabata Festival~ Yesterday, 7/7 (Sunday), the collaboration event "Sunset Village Kids Festa ~Tanabata Festival~" was Held in at the Wind Hall in Gokase Winery ? ? ? ??✨ and the Sunset Village Promotion Conference and the Child-Rearing Support Center It's like a wind hall ... The wind was quite strong, but it couldn't have ?☀️ been a sunnier day It doesn't matter! The children are full of ?✨ energy There was a water play booth set up at the venue! Fire water guns in the pool, fly various soap jade, play with water balloon yo-yos... It was a great success from morning until the end of the ?? event At the stage presentation, I moved my body with the music in rhythmics, sang together in a mini concert, read Picture books and watched and listened seriously to the Panel Theater with great interest ... The hula dance in a special collaboration with the Local brass band "G Band" was also a great Gari ?? Restrooms available were also available for wind instruments, percussion instruments, and koto, and the children were ?? very excited about the live instruments that they rarely touch It was ??? very crowded with Mr./Ms. Stalls such as BLANCO ice cream Mr./Ms. Stalls from the neighboring Yamato Town, drinks and food that both children and Adult are happy with, and fun raffles On the second floor of the cool wine hall, a photo exhibition and photo session Mr./Ms. Midori Tsunoda were also Held in, and ? she took ?✨ a Mr./Ms.lot of photos of the wonderful and new scenery of Gokase On the same floor, there was a nursing room and a rest room, and it was ?? friendly to small children In the afternoon, all the visitors wrote their wishes on strips of paper and tied them to the bamboo, and the bamboo, ? which had been naked, was decorated with vivid colors, and it seemed ?✨ that and ? heart was washed by the gentle requests with a lot of individuality At the venue, which was designed to be comfortable for parents and Mr./Ms., the children who played to their heart's content were drenched from head to toe and went home ?? with smiles of great satisfaction ? Places and opportunities where children can smile and enjoy themselves to the fullest are precious, and ?✨ it was a great day that I ??? wish there would be more and more wonderful events like this

Famous for "Japan's best shutter point" (?) The night on the Takabocchi Highlands is different! Take a look! This photo!! A little beauty for the scenery If you don't see it live, it's a loss! Family, friends, lovers, no matter who you go with, there is no waiting for Impression! I don't want to go anymore~

It's dark outside because of the Ume plum rain, but the gorgeousness of the hydrangeas stands out! This is a temple called Jokoji Temple in Kamisaijo, Shiojiri City, and is also Famous as Camphor Tree Temple.

July 7 ~ July 9 Iwauchi Shrine Annual Grand Festival Held in The Iwauchi Shrine Annual Grand Festival is a festival that is familiar to the Locals as a "Inai Festival". As the Yoimiya Festival on the 7th, the Japan Festival on the 8th, and the Return Festival on the 9th, the portable shrine is passed on the 8th and 9th. Saruta Hikomei and Uzu Memei are appointed from the Honkai at the age of 42 that year. On the 9th, the national highway was completely closed to traffic, and the sight of two portable shrines running up the "Shrine Slope" at once is sure to take your breath away. Town Intangible folk cultural assets's "Akasaka Guy" is also a highlight. You can check the detailed schedule on the Iwauchi Shrine website. Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity!

On June 30, the halfway point of the year, a Kaya no Rinokuguri Shinto ritual was held at the Shirahama Town Shrine to purify the defilements of the past six months and pray for a disease-free life in the second half.

Photographed on July 6, 24. It is the wind chime of Kawagoe Hachimangu. ? The strips are also wonderful.

Kaze W and Mamae (pronounced fluffy) This is ? a photo taken when I drove near the sea Ever since I was a child, I've been listening to ?✨ Southern songs when I'm driving near the ocean

Photographed on July 6, 24. It is the wind chime of Kawagoe Hachimangu. ?

On my way to Okinawa, I saw Mt. Fuji on the plane. Mt. Fuji was so beautiful in the summer that I wanted to tell people overseas that it was Mt. Fuji.

Shooting date: July 7, 24 Location: Mt. Narita This photo was taken during the Narita Gion Festival. It's been yellowtail Narita Gion Festival in a long time, and it was fun! It is a scene of memories with friends.

Photographed on July 6, 24. It is a wind chime on the edge of Kawagoe Ichiban Street.

Arch of the Milky Way Shot in Tsumekizaki 2024.07.05 The three images are combined into a panorama.

【Summer Festival Decoration of Tree Dreams】 The display at the entrance of the tree dream has been updated! There are stalls as soon as you enter. Restrooms available for shooting and takoyaki Mr./Ms. also has a fan character of "katanuki". It seems that you can actually experience shooting by flying a rubber band! At Takoyaki Mr./Ms., I wear a "bovine visor", You can also see the tense little clerk Mr./Ms.. I found a delicious grilled Soba (buckwheat noodles) This was also an inedible grilled Buckwheat noodles made by hand. What makes you feel festival in a tree dream Now is your chance (*^-^*) And if you come to Kimume, there is a recommended day Thereare! July 19 (Fri) 17:00~20:00 On this day, admission is free from 17 o'clock. Nishiokoppe junior high school brass band club concerts and Restrooms available! Culture Night is also for fun! #Nishiokoppe Village #Komu Museum of Art #com #Summer Festival #Cow Festival #Culture Night

Summer vacation. Overseas is good, but Japan is the best for children. The Milky Way is one of the best places in the world.

It is the Tanabata Festival of Hofu Tenmangu Shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The entire Tenmangu area is vividly decorated with strips of paper and wreaths, and at night, the "Hikari no Sai Garden" is set up to light up the umbrella artwork, and the corridor is enveloped in a fantastic atmosphere.

Photographed on July 6, 24. It is a wind chime on the edge of Kawagoe Ichiban Street.

Photographed on July 6, 24. Next to the Coedo Resona Terrace, there is also a rim musubi wind chime.

Yamaguchi Prefecture Mine City Kamanhachishiro Atsutogawa A firefly draws a shadow play, one of waiting for an airplane. You can see the pictures of mountains, rice paddies, and waterways with countless fireflies. There is a small country towns, the Firefly Festival. Spot. The area around the plane seems to be a constellation Ophiuch.

Daikichi, the boss who is taking a nap with a rock as a pillow What kind of dreams are you dreaming about? ??

Today, Saturday, July 6, three Beaches in Atami City opened to the sea at once. At Atami Mr./Ms. Beach, a safety prayer ceremony was held by Kumiya Shrine with the attendance of related parties. After the safety prayer festival, swimming starts at 9 o'clock! The children who gathered were presented with hand-held fireworks. Enjoy the waters of Atami this summer! Beaches opening period / July 6 (Sat) ~ 8/25 (Sun), 2024 【Atami Mr./Ms. Beach】Atami City East Coast Town 【Nagahama Beaches】Kamitaga, Atami City 【Ajiro Hot Spring Beaches】Atami City Shimotaga * Atami Mr./Ms. Beach Water Park will be open on July 13 (Sat) ~ 8/25 (Sun), 2024.

[Held in at Hishikawa Shisenobu Memorial Hall special exhibition "Yokai of Japan depicted in ukiyo-e"] ​ Currently, the Hishikawa Shisenobu Memorial Hall is holding in a special exhibition entitled "Japan's Yokai Depicted in Ukiyo-e Prints: The Summer of Turning Around." It introduces 100 ukiyo-e prints depicting scary but somewhat humorous yokai. Since ancient times, Japan people have regarded the invisible and unknown as "mononoke." "In the Edo period, Edo people wanted to see scary things, so they made Mononoke a character called a yokai and amused the fear," explains curator Hiroki Sasao Mr./Ms.. ​ One of the highlights of this event is the work of Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, who specializes in yokai painting. Yoshitoshi was a Ukiyoe artist who was active from the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji era, and is characterized by a dramatic painting style. Fascination the viewer with his dynamic brushstrokes. In addition, actor paintings depicting kabuki actors are also on display, and you can learn about kabuki performances that deal with yokai. "Actually, it was Kabuki that made yokai popular in the summer," says curator Mr./Ms. Sasao. "Famous kabuki actors staged a yokai play while they were on summer vacation, and it happened to be a hit," he says. On July 21 and August 11, at 1:30 p.m., there will be gallery talks by the curators. Held in until September 23. ​ ・Opening Hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Admission until 4:30 p.m.) ・Closed days Monday (or Tuesday if it is a holiday) Year-end and New Year holidays (from December 29 to January 3) ・Admission fee Adults and university students: 500 yen (400 yen) Elementary, junior high, and high school students: 400 yen (300 yen) * Fees for groups of 20 or more people in parentheses ・Access Train: JR Uchibo Line Hoda Station or Awa Katsuyama Station 15 minutes on foot By car: High-speed Futtsu Tateyama Road 5 minutes from Sakinan Hoda IC Along National Route 127 Roadside Station Kyonan

Notice of Kyowa Towns Tourism Product Exhibition! ? ○ Held in Period 2024 (Reiwa 6) July 23 (Tue) 11:00~18:30 2024 (Reiwa 6) July 24 (Wed) 9:00~18:30 ○ Venue hotel san francisco 1st floor outdoor Special venue ( Sapporo City Chuo-ku Kita 4 Jo Nishi 6-chome) We will sell a limited number of "Raden Squid" and "Raden Melon" that Kyowa Towns, one of the one of the most production areas in Hokkaido, and attractive Specialty Products of Kyowa Towns such as ice cream from Mita Ranch! We will also sell Tomonoba's new product, financier using Rice flour from Kyowa Towns ❗ We look forward to ?️ seeing you We look forward to seeing you ? at the venue

The "Flower Shobu Garden ✨" in Nishiki Onuma Park in full bloom The park is ✨ open until 7 p.m. until Monday, July 15

Cold plain noodles are a standard in summer in Japan. In the Kanto region, it is normal to eat only noodles in the noodle soup like Soba noodles, but in the Kansai region, it is filled with ingredients like Hiyashi Chuka. The ingredients are arranged in various ways, so I take leaves and tomatoes from a planter in the garden, lay them on a plate, put boiled plain noodles on it, and reinforce the nutritional value with sliding yam and crab sticks to make a noodle soup bukkake.

Sunday, September 15 The 12th Karikatsu Trail Running has been held in! ??? Starting and finishing at the Karikachi Kogen Park where Shinnai Station was located in Karikachi Line, the race was divided into four Course of 22 km, 12 km, 5 km, and 4 km through Nature such as Remnants of the old Karikatsu Line track and forest roads, with about 200 participants running through the race. Under the refreshing autumn sky, why don't you feel the Nature of Hokkaido on your body and run along the trajectory that people have followed by train since the Meiji era?

It is a wind chime at the edge of the ticket gate of Hon-Kawagoe Station. ? From today, at Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, the Rim Musubi wind chime has begun.