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You can enjoy the retro atmosphere of the year 1886 and the oval tub slowly. Located in the center of town, go through the arcade and feel like you 've slipped back in time to the old bathhouse. Recommended for arterial sclerosis, cuts, burns and chronic skin diseases. The hot water temperature is about 42 to 3 degrees. It is "relatively" lukewarm among the Shimo-Suwa hot springs.

Shimo-Suwa Onsen with eight communal bathhouses. Here is one of them, halfway between Suwa Taisha Shimosha Akimiya and Harumiya. A mural of Mount Fuji, which is a small but classic in the public bath, is impressive in a semi-circle bath of a slightly unusual shape. The hot water that is temperature-controlled every day is a little bit hot, so let's take a bath while the body is run-in.

It is familiar to local people as a long-lived hot water bath, and it is a common bath in the Anaiba-like area of Shimo-Suwa Onsen. Note that the opening hours are starting from the evening.

湯の町下諏訪は、古くから諏訪大社の総本社のある門前町として栄えた中山道、甲州街道で唯一の温泉宿場だ。江戸後期文化14年(1817)に作成された温泉番付「諸国温泉効能鑑」では、東の小結にランクされた。町の中心街には7つの公衆浴場が点在し、今も変わらず受け継がれている共同湯の文化を地域の人と共に体験できる。

みずべ公園近くの柳並木通り沿いに立ち、気軽に利用できるコミュニティスペース。大浴場のほか、露天風呂などを完備。泉質は弱アルカリ性の単純温泉で、冷え性や筋肉痛などに効能あり。

映画『いま、会いにゆきます』のロケ地に使われた、趣のある洋菓子店。名産のカリンを使った焼き菓子のかりんケーキ1個129円が定番。「万治の石仏」の顔をかたどった万治の石仏(2枚入り190円・箱入り10枚1箱972円)は、話題のクッキー。併設の喫茶コーナーでゆったり過ごすのもいい。

A long-established Japanese confectionery store established in 1873. Even now, the taste of handmade is kept by the same method. The specialty is Shio Yokan 1-rod 950 yen ~, and the specialty here is to knead the red beans from Jikatsu and the agar from Chino by burning oak firewood. It is said that the taste is mellow compared to gas fire. In addition, Shinkuru mochi manju 170 yen is also popular.

A long-established 100-year-old company. It was originally a specialty Abegawa rice cake from Shizuoka Prefecture, but it is also very popular in Shinshu Shimo Suwa. It is sold in the precincts under the name of the Omiyama rice cake during the Omiyayama Shrine Festival of Suwa Taisha (Misayamashasai). Plenty of blue kinako is fragrant. The goods loved by the people of the town.

Lake Suwa Municipal Museum, Akahiko Memorial Hall, Lake Suwa Exhibition Room, which introduces the life of people who have lived with Lake Suwa and earthenware and stoneware excavated from surrounding ruins, it has two permanent exhibitions, the Akahiko Exhibition Room, which presents the life of Akahiko Shimaki, an Araragi poet who represents Suwa, and his achievements. In addition, the building, which is based on the image of the "horizontal rainbow" and "Maruta boat" of Lake Suwa in the area, was designed by world-class architect Toyo Ito of Yukari, Shimo-Suwa-cho.

Kuniko Imai, who woke up to literature as a girl, opened a new ground in tanka by meeting with Akahiko Shimaki with a tour of Japan, and founded "Asuka", as well as laying the cornerstone for women poets. Kuniko Imai, who lived to his wife, to his mother, to a poet, and above all as a single woman, and continued to have the charm and finesse that attracted people in a violent swing at both poles of reason and passion. I want to be exposed to a new way of life beyond the ages. The building of the Literary House was located where Kuniko Imai's family home used to be located, and since he ran a teahouse "Matsuya" during the Edo period, he recreated the appearance of Machiya in the inn as much as possible.