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The park, which boasts a site area of 60,000 sq m, was built on a scenic spot with a view of Mount Asama. There's a well-equipped baseball field, a multi-purpose ground, and a fun-to-play Chibiko square, where the holidays are packed with families and young people sweating from sports. Toilets and parking are also maintained. On the wide lawn part, numerous cherry trees are planted.

It is lined with eye-catching main wall walls of a dozo and white walls, a wall with a thousand-lattice window, and a wall wall under a heavy construction, forming a gentle townscape. Once a small-scale farming village with five cases of travel, the daimyō stayed in the ornate Oiwake-shuku, and many princesses took advantage of this place. For this reason, it is also called "Princess's Inn". Also, on August 16 every year, the Odaijuku Festival is held in connection with a worship doll given by Princess Wadomiya.

Yomei 2 (587) An ancient temple reportedly erected by Prince Shotoku's father, Emperor Yomei to quell the eruption of Mount Asama. In the wide precincts, there are many places to see, such as the main hall with a chrysanthemum, the Mie Tower designated as Nagano Prefectural Treasure, the Kanon-do, the thousand-year-old Jindai cedar, the 20-meter-high parenting Jizo-son, and the pond of Onuma, the birthplace of the Kōga Saburo legend. "Ryūjin Matsuri," Miyoda-cho's largest event to be held on the last Saturday of July, with the motif of the legend of Saburo Kōga, who was incarnated as a dragon, begins at this ancient temple.

A secondhand bookstore with a cafe opened by a book-loving master. Books of various genres such as clothing and shelter, hobbies, and philosophy line up with Zrali. When you find your favorite book, let's read it with a cup of coffee in one hand (coffee and tea will be discounted by 100 yen for those who buy the book).

Fabrics and accessories from various Asian countries such as Thailand, India, Laos, and Myanmar gather. Handwoven and plant-dyed fabrics are all natural materials such as cotton, hemp, and silk.

A memorial hall to store and display materials about author Tatsuo Hori, who loved Karuizawa with a lot. Tatsuo Hori, known for his masterpieces such as "Wind Standing", is drawn to Oiwake and has left several works set in this land. The memorial hall, which stands on the site of the old house, displays love items such as first-edition books and autograph manuscripts, as well as desks and chairs designed by themselves. The bookies, which displayed the reading books, and the old homes where they spent their later years have also been preserved. The reading room also has related materials of Tatsuo Hori. By visiting this memorial hall, you can get acquainted with the literature of Tatsuo Hori and Karuizawa. It takes 30 minutes.

It displays tools and materials related to the post office, such as the lanterns [andon] and book books, which were used around Oiwake-shuku during the Edo period, that convey what it was like at the time. The building made of a thousand lattice is a model of Taba. There is also a corner of the back of the hearth [iruriba], which recreates the entrance of the teahouse. On the second floor, there is a library where you can view history books and literary books about Oiwake-shuku, and there are 550 volumes of the town-designated cultural property, such as the work of the calligrapher Inagaki Kokaku Inagaki, a native of Karuizawa. Valuable holdings can also be seen. It takes 30 minutes.

During the Edo period, it was one of the three post houses of Karuizawa, Kutsukake, and Oiwake, which were called the Sanshuku of Asamane Nekoshi, and seven masonry structures were built at the "shonjare" branch point between Nakasendo and Hokukoku Kaido, and are still left in the Edo period. The main shrine of Asama Shrine is the oldest building in the town of Karuizawa, and there are the monuments of Basho's punctuation in the precincts. There is also the Oiwake-shuku Folk Hall nearby and the Hori Tatsuo Literature Memorial Hall in the middle of the Oiwake-shuku.

In the Edo period, a place with a law or a law written by the shogunate, in order to spread the decree to the people of the inn. It was restored in 1983 based on old documents. The real items of the raised high bills are stored in the Oiwakuku Homokun.

The junction of the Nakasendo Road to Kyoto and the Hokukoku Kaido leading to the Echigo. It is said that the travelers spared goodbye here and continued their journey with tears. At the side of the signpost, there is a stone, such as a jangyokujokujitai, standing as it was at the time. On the stone monument, the song "Saranahana Miyoshino is the inn of Oiwake the moon and flowers on the left" is engraved. This is because if you come from Edo, if you go to the right, you can go from the famous site of the moon, Sarashina, over Zenkoji, to Echigo Road. If you proceed to the left, it shows that the road continues from Kisoji through the Tokaido to the cherry blossom spot Yoshino.