White Thread Waterfall

A museum located on the second floor of the Meiji 44th Year Hall within Karuizawa Taliesin. The cute mint green building is a relocated and restored structure of the former Karuizawa Post Office built in 1911 (registered tangible cultural property). Inside the museum, works by Koko Fukazawa, who spent summers in Karuizawa painting the wildflowers of the highlands, are on display. Centered around watercolor paintings of seasonal wildflowers, there are also oil paintings, lithographs, illustrations, and a recreation of the studio where her creative activities took place. It takes about 30 minutes to visit.

A shop specializing in hats whose original hats were well received. In women's goods, he deals with works by designers from Japan and abroad, such as Mizuno Milliner's author, original hat by Akio Hirata, who is also known for his patronage of Crown Princess Masako, and Shinano Shokai and Shinko. Among the hats available from 3,000 yen to 50,000 yen, straw hats from 3800 yen are popular.

Since his first visit to Karuizawa in 1920, writer Saisei Murou spent every summer here for 40-odd years, the year before his death, attracted by its charm. This villa is a Japanese-style one-story house built in 1931, and the garden was built by Saisei himself. The old house, nestled in a grove, still conveys Karuizawa, the day that literary scholars prefer.