Two day trip to the south of Nagano Prefecture. Day 1 focused a visiting Suwa Grand Shrine, the most well-known Shinto place at Lake Suwa district.
This is the map of japan now we are going to visit the middle of japan around here nagano prefecture nagano prefecture is one of very few prefixes without having the coastline tokyo here facing pacific osaka hiroshima negative many areas many prefixes having uh the coastline but nagano prefecture
Is actually a mountain region around here we’ll spend two days to visit some interesting places in southern part of nagano prefecture this is a enlarged map of central part of japan tokyo is here nagano prefecture is this part i will take a x plus way called the duo expressway from tokyo
Taking this away and the reach here is already part of nagano prefecture distance about 250 kilometers from tokyo there is a lake here called the suvaco just beside the swako there is a very well known shinto shrine called taisha siwai and then we move down to tsumango actually this line the traditional uh
Nakasendo highway very important main road during a feudal period there is a traditional town called mango and stay at the front of hot spring resort called hirugami onsen the following day we’re heading to somewhere around here this is a central japanese we are heading to we’re taking actually ropeway gondoras
Ideal gondora to reach the altitude of 2600 meters and enjoy a cool your autumn colors and then come back to tokyo this way so distance so the travel distance about probably 600 kilometers or so this is a service area called tango zaka today is a weekday you see so many people individual cars
Tour buses so many people are here so early morning still at nine o’clock 9 30 round this is one of the major service area along the turo expressway inside the service area there are good and souvenir stores hopefully we can enjoy eating drinking and taking a rest prepare prepare for long distance drive
This is a super sinto shrine very famous one of a major regional shrine here this train has not only this sewer area but also having french shrines all over japan probably about 1 000 shrines belong to this particular sewer shrine this is a water place to purify yourself before visiting
To the main shrine most enshrined part of slime this restaurant here has four major shrines actually things a bit complicated this is located right next to lake suwa thank you sure is having two different districts apart and lower this is the upper place as a whole is located right here
Strangely enough this is running has no main hole having only pray as a whole he’s into priest now group it’s visiting uh miss ryan having a sinto ceremony sitter has no absolute god only the spirits reside at the main part of the slime for the priests are in special question to carry out
The simple results