Category: Nagano「長野」
Close to the summit on Ontake-san 「Mount Ontake, 御嶽山」 is the upper shrine of Ontake-jinja called Ontake-jinja Okusha. Pilgrims dressed in white robes with a conical hat and wooden walking stick trek up the mountain, ...
Mount Fuji is both the highest mountain and highest volcano in Japan. Mount Ontake stands in second on the highest volcano podium, at 3067m tall. The mountain has a rich religious history - Buddhist shrines, ...
Along the Nakasendō 「中山道」, a route from Edo (now Tokyo) to Kyoto through the center of Japan’s mainland, were 69 “post towns” or “stations”, some of which are today preserved exactly as they were in ...
A High Dynamic Range composite photo of an amazingly picturesque river gorge, in the Nagano Alps of central Japan is the Photo Of The Month for July. Taken on a break from the summer heat ...
Narai-juku is a post town along the historic Nakasendo, and is a great way to experience historic and traditional Japan from the Edo period, just like it was all those years ago...
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