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Super Tsuruya, which is also attended by Karuizawa Madam and professional cooks. There are 33 stores in the prefecture and more than 100 kinds of Tsuruya brand products. The fresh sales office, which is about 400 square meters, is filled with fresh vegetables directly from the country.

A jam store with the concept of "domestically produced", "no additives" and "handmade at its own factory". They harvest only during the "season" period when the fruit is most delicious, and keep the freshness of the fruit intact in the jar. There are always more than 50 kinds of jams such as rhubarb grown in-house (from 411 yen in S size 125g), and products with rich butter such as cream butter are also popular. Recommended strawberry jam is 681 yen made with the shape of large strawberry as it is. There is a directly managed restaurant "Kodo", which focuses on local consumption, and you can eat that dish at "Sightseeing Train Rokumon". A popular "jam-making experience classroom" for families is also held from time to time.

It is rich in sake and wine, which is a specialty of Shinshu. The original local sake, Karuizawa Daiginjo 720 ml 2160 yen, and the sake and wine in the prefecture, which can only be purchased at specialty stores, may be sold out. At the back of the shop is "Gallery Tung Wan", which displays and sells works by local potters. There are many rustic and warm instruments.

Shop and workshop of handmade jewelry with a wide range of items from earrings and silver that can be used everyday to high-grade. The shop owners, who have honed their wealth of experience and advanced technology at a major jewelry manufacturer, are painstakingly making them one by one, and are also focusing on after-sales services, making originals, renovations and repairs. Accessories such as power stone bracelets and necklaces and handmade experience of suncatcher 1500 yen ~.

There are about 10 horses in the stables, and you can experience riding. There is also a touching course where even small children can walk on horseback. Riding in the refreshing air of the plateau is the best feeling.

You can experience harvesting on a private plantation trusted by chefs from famous restaurants. Taste vegetables that do not use pesticides or chemical fertilizers, such as ripe tomatoes, zucchini, and various herbs.

It is located in the "Kukukake Terrace". It provides tourist information and accommodation information of Karuizawa. Please feel free to consult with it because it is a friendly atmosphere.

The villa of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, which was built during the Taisho era; and became the property of Mr. and Mrs. Ichimura Imasakura, a political scientist who had fraternized afterward; and was donated to the town in Heisei, where it was released as a memorial hall; and exhibits furnishings and photographs.

A museum that preserves and displays the works of Hirosuke Tazaki, a Western-style painter known for his majestic mountain landscapes and who received the Order of Culture in 1975. In the early Showa era, in a Japanese art pit swept by European-style oil paintings, Tazaki, who argued that "Japanese people should paint oil paintings of the Nippon people", opened his own world without being swept away by bandwagon and became a leading figure in the Japanese oil painting world. In addition to his representative works, Asoyama and Fuji, as well as works on the theme of Karuizawa and Shinshu, which he loved as his second hometown, he also exhibited rare ink paintings, as well as materials from his art culture friends, with different themes every year. In addition, the building designed by Koji Hara, which was awarded the Japan Society for Architecture Award in 1986, is also a highlight.

In the forest of Karuizawa, art and breathing/Art Museum in symbiosis with nature, with the theme of "Art Breathing". The collection exhibitions by contemporary art from Japan and abroad, such as Man Ray, Andy Warhol and Paul Klee, as well as a planned exhibition featuring contemporary writers. In the garden, you can enjoy the distance view of Mt. Asama and the seasonal flowers along with the outdoor sculptures.