Please visit Azumino City and experience its charm.
We will send out recommended tourist information on Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture (Azumino Traditional Japanese straw raincoat), where the largest Wasabi field in Japan spreads, on COOL JAPAN VIDEOS, so please look forward to it.
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Isemiya Shrine standing amid rice fields
I could see the Northern Alps toward Hakuba, but clouds rose around Mount Ariake
It already feels like early summer in Azumino
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Chogatake as seen from Azumino
A snow pattern has appeared just below its summit
Unlike the Jonenbo pattern on Mt. Jonen, the snow pattern on Chogatake is a positive type (the remaining snow appears white)
True to the mountain’s name, a white butterfly seems to emerge
See if you can spot it
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The rose garden adjacent to Azumino City Museum (formerly Toyoshina Modern Art Museum) next to Azumino City Hall is now at peak bloom.
You can enjoy about 250 varieties and more than 500 repeat-blooming roses!
Rose Week 2025: Saturday, May 24 – Sunday, June 1
Although the museum is closed, the museum garden will hold a plant sale on Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, from 9:00 a.m. to around 3:00 p.m., timed with the roses’ bloom. A pottery market by the Hotaka Pottery Center will also take place on the same days.
Azumino City Museum
(Under renovation / scheduled to reopen on August 30, 2025)
399-8205
5609-3 Toyoshina, Azumino, Nagano
Phone: 0263-73-5638
Fax: 0263-73-6320
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The old JNR Shinonoi Line track bed in fresh greenery
Lush zelkova trees along the abandoned line and a brick tunnel dating from the Meiji era
This is an excellent route for hiking
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A water‑welcoming ritual took place on the Saigawa River flowing through Azumino.
At the confluence of the Saigawa, Takasegawa, and Hotakagawa rivers, a Shinto ceremony was held to pray for a bountiful harvest for the year, the prevention of water disasters, and the development of tourism.
We give thanks for the blessings of water that flow down from the Northern Alps.
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Mount Jōnen as seen from Azumino under a stretch of clear weather
If you look closely, you can spot the snow pattern called “Jōnenbō” on the mountain’s slope
Can you make out the figure of a monk wearing a kasaya robe and carrying a sake flask?
People long ago used this snow pattern as a seasonal cue for tasks such as sowing seeds and planting rice seedlings, weaving it into their daily lives
Azumino is now just entering the rice-planting season
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National Government Park Alps Azumino Horigane-Hotaka area is reaching peak bloom for tulips and rapeseed flowers!
A tulip field of 117 varieties totaling 320,000 bulbs and a five-million-strong carpet of yellow in the satoyama terraced-rice-field zone stretch as far as the eye can see.
For details, visit the official website of National Government Park Alps Azumino
https://www.azumino-koen.jp/horigane_hotaka/...
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This morning, Azumino chilled down to 3 degrees.
Under a high-pressure system, the blue sky spread above a breathtaking scene.
The white peaks of the Northern Alps reflected in a mirror-like sheet of water.
Azumino is now entering its most beautiful season.
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We would like to inform you about bus services on Prefectural Road Yarigatake-Yamura Line (commonly called Nakabusa Line), which leads to the Nakabusa Trailhead.
Due to a shoulder collapse that occurred on Monday, April 14, 2025, bus operations to Nakabusa Onsen will change; please be aware of this change.
Beyond the Miyagi Gate, the Nakabusa Line is closed to all vehicles except those with permits.
The collapsed section is closed to vehicle traffic, so passage will be on foot; please walk with great care.
Details about regular bus operations are posted on the Azumino City Tourism Association’s official website; please check there for more information.
https://azumino-e-tabi.net/archives/2474...
Please check the latest information.
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Ricefield tilling has begun here and there across Azumino, and the rice-planting season has arrived.
Next, after the fields are flooded and leveled, the seedlings will be planted.
During this rice-planting period you can see Azumino’s miraculous spectacle, the “water mirror”.
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