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A nature-type outdoor park facility originating from France, located in the great nature of Mount Kinkachi, Kurimoto. It crosses from tree to tree while clearing the activity, and finally lands with a zip slide. You can have plenty of adventures in the forest. Wearing a dedicated harness and using the course after receiving a safety lesson, it is safe even for children. In the case of "Canopy Course", it is possible to challenge from children with a height of 110cm or more without any age limit. The popular "adventure course" also has plenty of activities to enjoy the thrill. According to the height and age, the family can also experience each course.

Kitesurfing is a relatively new water sport that runs on a lake while being pulled by a kite in the sky. Its popularity is increasing year by year, and if you improve, you can ride the waves and fly upwind. Even if you are a beginner, you can handle up to 4 people. Please contact us for details.

There are free foot baths (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 12-March).

As a "base for artistic culture that is familiar with water and green", Kuritō Art and Culture Hall Sakira (designer Kiyoshi Kawasaki) aims to create "sakazukuri" to enjoy artistic culture, "hitokukuri" to create, and "face-building" for the cultural zone. The facility includes a large hall (810 seats) mainly composed of music, a middle hall (406 seats) mainly of theater, a small hall (200 seats) that can be used for multipurpose, as well as a practice room, studio, exhibition room, training room, etc. Performances of various genres are held throughout the year. Pets in the building are not allowed.

The number of collected materials across each field since its opening is more than 30,000. The Komasaka Cliff Buddha (reproduction) in front of the hall overwhelms visitors. The Tongshi Exhibits are introduced from various fields such as archaeology, arts and crafts, history, and folklore. It is held with the aim of "exhibition that is not the same whenever you go, and will be reborn little by little." the relocated private house on the site The former Nakajima family house can experience the fire entering Kamado on weekends and using bamboo to blow it up. You can feel the warmth and smell of kamado, and you can also experience stilts and old play. There is also the experience of cooking rice in a furnace (inquiry required).

During the Edo period, the "zesai" store and mansion, which sold the drug "Wachusan" for travelers who traveled along the Tōkaidō, were released to the public. It is a building that also served as a resting place for the daimyō and the public house, and retains its highly-rated entrances and parapets, as well as the Ike-Izumi-style garden (Meishatsu), which is transmitted to Kobori-shusaku. The garden's oyster is seen from around 20 May, and Satsuki is seen around the beginning of June (with some changes due to climate).

In Tenpyo 5 (733), Ryoben was founded. During the Hong Kong Year (810-824), the Gajin was established by the Guan and prospered as the center of the Jinkashan Buddhist sphere. Although only a small number of Dōto remain today, the wooden statue of Kōkūzōdōri in the Kōkūzōdōdo gathers faith as the Buddha of the Jujūsaku. I would also like to visit the Komasaka Cliff Buddha, which is about an hour and 40 minutes walk. It is a cliff Buddha carved with 12 Buddha statues, including a statue of Nyorai and a statue of a samurai.

Hot spring super bath. There are 13 baths, large and small, as well as two types of sauna and four types of bedrock baths (separate fees). The large bathhouse has a natural hot spring, "Omi-Kusatsu Bibi no Noyu", as well as the popular carbonated water, and about 10,000 comic corners and recliners with TV at the bedrock. In addition, it is a facility where you can enjoy the meal restaurant Suishun-tei, Shabu-shabu all-you-can-eat shabu-hermitage, healing yume, and cut hair shearing throughout the day.

The fillings, such as custard and paste, are made by hand, and there are 70 types of them, ranging from hard rye bread and baguette to soft, such as brioche.

The Kusatsu specialty, Ubagamochi shop, which was founded in Eiroku 12 (1569). It has also appeared in ukiyo-e by Hiroshige Ando and Katsushika Hokusai. It is said that a nanny made it and sold it to travelers in the past, and it is a simple taste in which soft rice cakes made from locally made glutinous rice are wrapped in a paste with a modest sweetness. 900 yen with 18 grains. You can taste it in the store. 300 yen with 6 grains.