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You can enjoy a quick barbecue in a lakeside location surrounded by forest. The BBQ is 4400 yen per person. You don't have to worry about setting up the fire on the latest Coleman BBQ stove. Free hammock lending is included in the price.

The outdoor bath, which rises in the surrounding area and has a spectacular panorama of the mountains of the Central and Southern Alps and the Tenryu River, is a wild structure with stacked rocks. You can also enjoy majestic views from a large bath with a jet bath. You can fully enjoy the simple sulfur spring, which is effective for the scenery spreading in front of you and chronic skin disease, chronic gynecology, diabetes, etc., and refresh your mind and body.

You can enjoy 880 yen (reservation required) of soba noodles at the castle beside the main facility. Ryuta soba (300g 570 yen) and Ryuta yakinchi (200 yen with four) are recommended for souvenirs.

Neba [Neba] Village An agricultural product processing and sales facility where you can tour the production process of original brand tofu and dairy products. It sells 220 yen for Osugi beans made using domestic soybeans, 400 yen for Neba soft serve. There is also a self-catering cottage.

A popular day-trip hot spring with a spacious garden open-air bath. The hot spring has a whitening effect, and is a sodium-hydrogen carbonate spring also known as "beautiful water bath", complete with an outdoor bath and a hot water bath. Accommodation "Sunflower House" is also attached. 10,000 yen with two meals per night.

Road station on a plateau at an altitude of 920m. Information Center on the station building with a rest room and a toilet, the popular day-to-day hot spring facility "Shinshu Hiratani Onsen Himawarinoyu" and the produce direct sale shop "Sunflower Market", the accommodation facility "Sunflower house", A restaurant such as "Sunflower Tei" is attached. There is also a heated pool with a powerful long slider. In addition to the sunflower market, fresh vegetables, seasonal fruits, and corn specialty of Hiratani-mura, Himawari-tei also has a number of menus unique to Minami-Shinshu, such as horse sticks, maitake mushroom soba, and sauce katsudon.

Centrally located at the onsen hall, a complex of leisure facilities consisting of a ceramic experience hall, a restaurant, a tent site, a cottage, etc. The natural hot spring bath boasts a large bathtub that boasts the largest size in the prefecture. You can enjoy five kinds of hot water such as an open-air bath and a sauna with the best view of the Monbara Bridge.

The horse meat menu, which has been well received in the restaurant, includes a horse-stick set meal, sakadon (maudon). For snacks, the specialty "Great Misanchi" 460 yen, which is baked over a charcoal fire and smeared with plenty of curumidare.

From the observation bath and the outdoor bath, the view of the southern Alps at the four seasons is stunning. There is also a sleeping bath and a sauna. The name "Gidai" is derived from the late Yoshiro Shimaoka, a native of Takamori and former director of the Meiji University baseball club. You can also see items related to Shimaoka in the hall.

From the middle to the end of June, a large number of genji fireflies can be observed each year. The local company is also focusing on the cultivation of firefly larvae and the cultivation of kawanina, which becomes a fish. In late June, a "Hotaru Kankō Week" event will be held in line with the time when a firefly occurs at Tenhaku Gorge, where you can watch the night sky raunts.