Roadside station Kurohone/Yamabiko

In the main "Nami no Pool", the size and shape of the waves change and you can experience the sea of the summer. There is also a 150m lap "Nagare Pool", elementary school students only "Rodeo Mountain", water sliders, Jacuzzi and sauna, so you can enjoy all day. "Wakuwaku Waterland" playing with water play equipment is new from April of the year of Reiwa 5 (2023). For 45 minutes high school students and above 2000 yen, children 1000 yen.

In addition to the exhibition of materials about mountain work and sericulture, which were the living businesses of the Kurohone district, there is a corner that introduces Nagataro Hoshino, who established the first civilian silk mill in the early Meiji era, and his younger brother, Shuichiro Arai, who traveled to the United States to directly export silk. Where Abstract 20 Minutes.

It recreates coppice forest and satoyama scenery such as fields and streams on a 45ha site. An experiential educational facility where you can search for and pick up various insects, including butterflies and beetles, and carefully observe their ecology. At the Insect Observatory, you can see creatures of satoyama such as diving beetle and mantis mantis, insects in the world such as the Hercules giant beetle, and the largest butterfly in Japan. Various programs such as craft experience are also held. In the oyabuki private house, we carry out old-fashioned play and experience of satoyama life where you can feel the nature of the four seasons.