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Ashikaga Flower Park, Tochigi

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April to the middle of May when the wisteria flower will be in full bloom

In “Ashikaga Flower Park” in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, the wisteria festival called “Fuji Flower Story” will be held every year from the middle of April to the middle of May when the wisteria flower will be in full bloom. At night, you can watch the wisteria flower which was lighted up, it is crowded with tourists.
Ashikaga Flower Park opened in 1968 as a “Hayakawa Farm” in a place different from the present. In 1997, it was relocated to the present ashikaga city Hasama-cho which was originally a wetland area, and opened as “Ashikaga Flower Park”.

2000 square meters in size, about 150 years old

At that time in Japan there was no precedent for transplanting wisteria, it was the first successful example in Japan. After that, the splendid wisteria flower became a reputation, and it became a crowded spot by tourists from all over the place.
Ashikaga Flower Park’s wisteria flowers are also used for CM, and four large wisteria trees of about 2000 square meters in size, about 150 years old, are designated as Tochigi prefecture designated natural treasure.

Dream destinations for 2014

A total of over 350 wisteria trees are masterpieces. Also, Ashikaga Flower Park was the only election from Japan in CNN ‘s “Dream destinations for 2014”.

Wisteria flower has been appreciated for a long time in Japan

Wisteria flower has also appeared in the oldest historical book “Kojiki” in Japan, and is a flower with history that has been appreciated for a long time. Japanese wisteria are two kinds, “Noda Fuji” (Wisteria floribunda) and “Yama Fuji” (Wisteria brachybotrys), the length of the flower and the winding form of the vine are different. Generally speaking in Japan wisteria flower is called “Noda Fuji” varieties.

Rare types can also be seen

The best time to see the wisteria flowers is mid April to mid May. It blooms for every color in order of Usubeni Fuji, Murasaki Fuji, Shira Fuji, and Kibana Fuji. Since rare types can also be seen in the country besides the large wisteria, it does not get bored.

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Name:	Ashikaga Flower Park
Address:	Hasamacho 607 Ashikaga, Tochigi 329-4216 Japan
Access:	JR Ryomo-sen Line “Tomita-eki Station” (13 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81) 284-91-4939
Price:	Please refer official page for details of the event period and admission fees as they may vary depending on the condition of the flowers. ※ 10% discount applies to a party of more than 20 people. ※ Child fees apply to children between the age of 4 and school age.
Official site:	https://www.ashikaga.co.jp/

Edo Wonderland (Nikko Edo Mura)

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The entertainment facility which reproduced Edo

Edo Wonderland is the entertainment facility which reproduced Edo 808 town faithfully.
When you will step into the “barrier” of the entrance, there seemed to totally traveled back in time to the Edo Period.
The merchant’s houses, the post town, the samurai residence, etc. stand in a row, and a samurai, and town girl, etc. greet. The show is carried out everywhere in the park, including the powerful action show of The Grand Ninja Theatre, and it is full of events.
In The “Dress Up Edo Style Zone”, you can changes into Edo period clothes, and turn completely into the people from Edo, and can also take a walk.

All events in high quality

You can enjoy all events in high quality.
The rows of houses of Edo are reproduced firmly, and since the staff called Edo-nin (people of Edo) identified with the characters of the role completely, the view of the world of Edo is held.

The extremely powerful ninja play

The charm of Edo Wonderland seems to be the “show.” The extremely powerful ninja play is performed in The Grand Ninja Theatre. The action is high-level, and the performance that excelled does not permit a blink, the length of the fight scene is very long and grasp sweat in a hand though knowing it is a show,

The water comes out from various places

In “Mizugei-za”, water comes out from various places, the comical player also comes out, it is pleasant show. But please be careful. Water splashes when you sit down toward the front. Let’s view behind the direction which does not want to get wet.

There is much experience which can enjoy only here.

in addition to this, there are the samurai residence which can study history, a throwing knife throw, bow and arrows, etc. which can experience and play of Edo, and there is much experience which an adult and a child can enjoy themselves only here.

Information

Name:	Edo Wonderland (Nikko Edo Mura)
Address:	Karakura 470-2 Nikko, Tochigi 321-2524 Japan
Access:	Tobu Kinugawa-sen Line “Kinugawa-Onsen-eki Station” (10 minutes by car)
Tel:	(+81)288-77-1777
Price:	4,700 yen (Adult) 2,400 yen (6 to12 years old) Free (5 years old and under)
Official site:	http://edowonderland.net/

Oya Underground Mine Remains

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21,000 square meters

The remains of the Oyaishi stone underground mining place were used till 1986, in order to obtain the Oyaishi stones. Since it was working about 67 years, huge underground space to the extent that 21,000 square meters, an average depth of 30 m, and one baseball field enter was made.
At the museum knowing a history of the digging of the Oyaishi stone, it displays the documents such as changes of the transportation, a tool and hand‐cut digging method from the middle of Edo era when digging began in in earnest to about 1959.

The deepest place is 60m below ground

The best part in the museum is the remains of the underground mining place. There is space of 21,000 square meters, the deepest place is 60m below ground. The average temperature in the tunnel is around 8 degrees Celsius.

The total harvest yields were approximately 10 million blocks

The quantity per one block of the strip-mined stone was approximately 15cm *30cm *90cm, total harvest yields from the mine were approximately 10 million blocks.

Used as building materials

As for the Oyaishi stone, digging is still carried out, it is used as building materials. It is a kind of the tufa which volcanic ashes and pumice are piled up 20 million years ago.

Used also as a wedding hall now

This place was used as the factory and a provision store of fighter plane in the wartime period. It is used as location sites of a movie and the concert halls now, or a church exists in inside further now, and it is used also as a wedding hall.

Information

Name:	Oya Underground Mine Remains (Oya History Museum)
Adresse:	Oyamachi 909 Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-0345 Japan
Access:	Tobu Utsunomiya-sen Line “Tobu-Utsunomiya-eki Station” (20 minutes by bus)
Tel:	(+81)28-652-1232
Price:	800 yen (Adult) 400 yen (Under 15 years old)
Official site:	http://www.oya909.co.jp/

Yuppo no Sato (Hot Spring Facility)

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The footbath largest in Japan

There is the circular building which draw the attention in the center of the Nasushiobara hot spring town. It is a facility made with a wooden framework backed by the mountains of the Shiobara Valley full of the natural beauty. It is footbath “Yuppo no Sato” largest in Japan in Shiobara Onsen. It is the footbath of the corridor type with length of 60 meters. In addition, there is “the spring water drinking” which is namely drinking of hot spring water, and the direction using the hot spring including hot water fog, an intermittent fountain, the hot water waterfall, too.

The six kinds of bathtubs

The corridor of 1.5 meters in width running hot spring water has six kinds of bathtubs. There are various effects by a change of stimulation and quantity of water and the temperature of the footbath. It is just divided into two zones in the middle of the corridor bathtub, and it becomes the considerable amount of exercise when you go around it.

The pebble stimulating a foot pot

The pain of the pebble stimulating a foot pot and the temperature of the hot spring are not constant. The eye does not show it where a hot spring gushes out of on the way, but, it is felt obviously that temperature changes.

You can drink this hot spring

There is “the spring water drinking” that you can drink this hot spring outside of “Yuppo no Sato”. It seems to be effective in digestion. It stimulates a foot pot while walking, in addition, you can experience the hot spring medical treatment, too.

Heal the fatigue of the foot

The facilities source that gushes out from the inside a high temperature of 59.3 degrees Celsius, you can enjoy “footbathing” adjusted to various temperature. It is recommended to heal the fatigue of the foot.

Information

Name:	Yuppo no Sato (Hot Spring Facility)
Adresse:	Sakitama 602-1 Nasushiobara, Tochigi 325-0033 Japan
Access:	JR Tohoku-honsen Line “Nishinasuno-eki Station” (40 minutes by car)
Tel:	(+81)287-32-3101
Price:	200 yen (Adult) 100 yen (Under 15 years old) Free (Under 6 years old)
Official site:	http://www.city.nasushiobara.lg.jp/

Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Tochigi

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The shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu have been enshrined

The “Nikko Toshogu Shrine” that is the most famous in the Shrines and the Temples of Nikko is the Shinto shrine where Tokugawa Ieyasu was enshrined. The current main shrine group was rebuilt in “Kanei no Daizoutai” (Major Alteration in Kanei period) by the third Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu. The architectural beauty of the early years of the Edo Period, which being lacquered and rich colored on the building, is seen in it.

Luxurious architecture

There are many sights to see in the Nikko Toshogu Shrine including the three wise monkeys ‘which neither see, speak nor listen’. By order of the third Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu that “You may spend as much money as you want for the construction and the design” in this Toshogu, it had been built luxuriously.

More than 500 sculptures are engraved

The splendid main shrine, five-storied pagoda, gate, garden lanterns form a line in the precincts, all of them are solemn and splendid. The gorgeously coloured Yomei-mon Gate is particularly famous in that. It is also called “Higurashi-mon Gate”, because it is so beautiful that you see it until a day goes down.
This gate that more than 500 sculptures are engraved was designated National Treasure.

Three monkeys

In the God stable, that famous “three monkeys” are seen. You may feel the actual carved figure is little small.

The Toshogu annual festival

The Toshogu annual festival is held as a yearly event twice in spring and summer in Toshogu. “Sennin Musha Gyoretsu” (a procession of one thousand samurai), a procession that carries Mikoshi (portable shrine carried in festivals) goes up and down a sando (an approach to the temple), and Yabusame, which a Shinto religious horseback archery ceremony, are performed.

Information

Name:	Nikko Toshogu Shrine
Adresse:	Sannai 2301 Nikko, Tochigi 321-1431 Japan
Access:	JR Nikko-sen Line “Nikko-eki Station” (10 minutes by car)
Tel:	(+81)288-54-0560
Price:	1,300 yen (Adult) 450 yen (Under 15 years old)
Official site:	http://www.toshogu.jp/

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