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A roadside station whose main facility is "Stop and Stop Matsukawa", which has a dining hall and concession stand. Stand along the North Alps Panorama Road. The view of the mountains and countryside of the Northern Alps, which overlooks the station building, is exceptional as a location in Azumino. Seasonal vegetables and wild plants, as well as specialty apples and other fruits, are also plentiful at the local sales office. At the restaurant, you can enjoy "Uto Toro Don" using the famous "Ginjo Pork".

The sister house of the Chihiro Museum, Tokyo. In 1997, the building was opened in Matsukawa village where Chihiro Iwasaki's parents moved after the war. The five exhibition rooms feature the works and materials of Chihiro, who continued to draw children as the theme of his life, as well as the works of picture book painters and the history of picture books around the world. Three exhibition changes were carried out according to the season. There is also a picture book room where you can read 3000 domestic and foreign picture books and a picture book cafe where you can spend time while watching the landscape of the countryside. In the 53,500-square-meter Azumino Chihiro Park, which extends around the area, there is Totchan Square, which is lined with two real trains. A journey of 1 hour and 30 minutes. Credit cards are available only at the reception and shop.

The herb garden, which was the origin of the "Herbal Town", is located in the mountains on the eastern side of Ikeda Town. From mid-June to mid-July, when the lavender blooms, 40,000 square meters of the mountain skin will be dyed purple all over. Picking flowers is 500 yen for a glass of paper. In the spring, the area of Yume no Sato will be covered with cherry blossoms as a cherry blossom town created by small birds. The shop sells original herbal products (lavender soft ice cream at the time of lavender).

The station is equipped with a herb greenhouse, herb garden, and herbal foot baths (all of which are closed for the winter). Speciality products made from local herbs, local vegetables and local sake are sold. From June to early July, you can experience the lavender picking experience (for a fee).

The museum is built on a high ground with a view of the northern Alps stretching over 180 degrees and the Azumino rural landscape in front of Mount Ariake called Shinano Fuji. It houses and displays works by artists from Ikeda-cho and Yukari Azumino, including oil paintings by Ikutaro Okuda, Daigoro Yamashita and Takako Kojima, as well as ceramic works by Yoshiichi Shinoda. In addition, a planned exhibition with elaborate tastes is also held several times a year. There is also a tea lounge and a terrace that can be used for sketching.

You can feel free to enjoy the hot water of Hotaka Onsenkyo while looking at monuments related to Azumino's folk tale, "Hachimen Daio". Relocated and reopened in April 2018. Due to the high temperature of the source, the temperature is adjusted to the proper temperature by touching the air with a waterfall of hot water.

The soft ice cream, which uses non-homo milk squeezed from Holstein, which is bred on the Northern Alps ranch, is reputed for 370 yen; the flavor of the milk itself is used; and the non-homo pasteurized milk 900 ml 480 yen is also well received.

There are about 60 or so different breads made from seasonal ingredients that are friendly to the body. If you choose your preference, such as cooking bread or sweet bread, taste it at the terrace seat with a view of the Azumino countryside. Please also enjoy the seasonal soup, 315 yen.

A specialty store for log house self-roasted coffee beans, located in the forest of Azumino, which sells seven straight, four blended specialty coffee beans, which are irregularly entered.

From natural yeast bread to sweet bread to cooking bread, the taste is exceptional when you taste it on a wood deck on a sunny day. The croissant 183 yen, which is made of crisp baking of dough piled in nine layers, is one of the shopkeeper's offerings. The snack menu is also substantial, such as pizza 1100 yen.