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A museum for children in the Mikahara Kogen Museum of Art, where children can experience the fun of modeling in nature while touching or entering and playing. The museum displays play sculptures such as the sculpture "Shabon-tama no Castle".

The two programs, "Mikahara no Shiki" and "Kogen no Planet", are screened using a projector to introduce the Mikahara Kogen Museum of Art in the four seasons. They will also be used as events and exhibition venues.

An indoor exhibition hall located at the entrance of the Migahara Kogen Museum of Art, open-air exhibition. It is also used as a gallery for various events and planned exhibitions, as well as a permanent exhibition of works held by this museum, including paintings and sculptures.

A permanent exhibition of about 350 pieces of sculpture. The green of the prairie and the blue of the sky are abstracted on the canvas, scattered with a variety of figurines. Takeyoshi Inoue's "My Sky Hall (a box that looks into the heavens)", Susumu Niinomiya's "Compass of the Stars", Cesar's "Thumb", and Rusiminbourg's "Sparrow @ Utsunitai Hoomodus", etc. It is characterized by many individual and large scale works by contemporary writers from Japan and abroad. From spring to autumn, dainty plant flowers such as hakusanfuuro, willow orchids and pine-eel compete in bloom, with the area serving as a treasure trove of alpine plants. You can enjoy a 360-degree view of the surroundings and beautiful flowers along with the sculptural works.

The high point of the Venus Line, open-air sculpture museum spread over a plateau at an altitude of about 2000m. The 40,000-pyeong outdoor exhibition hall displays more than 350 pieces of contemporary sculpture. In addition to the outdoor exhibition hall, there is also an indoor exhibition hall such as a gallery and a children's museum, where you can enjoy a variety of contemporary art.

It's about mid-June. The vermilion vantalea blooming in the birch forest shows the exquisite contrast with the white white birch, the bright green of the fresh green. You can also experience forest therapy while feeling the cool breeze and the singing of birds, and it is also a popular shooting spot.

A hill with a good view of Takeshimine, Mikahara Plateau, and the Northern Alps. The place was named because the climbers who left the Mikahara Kogen behind them looked back and missed the way they came, and there is a promenade of about 4km, about 2 hours on foot, which takes about 4km and leads to the nature conservation center after the 1972.6m altitude. It is a course with up and down where you can enjoy various flowers such as the azalea in early summer and the pine tree in late summer.

At an altitude of 2034m, the highest peak of the Migahara Kogen. The area is a flat plateau, lined with various radio towers. The surrounding area is full of 360-degree panoramas such as Mount Asama, the Northern Alps, Mount Tateshina [Tatesanayama], and Mount Yagatake. There is also a 20-minute walk to the place. It is a cliff at an altitude of 2008m that protrudes to the west, and plate-like saving andesite can be seen. It was once visited by many people as a place of mountain faith, and it is still lined with more than a dozen stone Buddhas.

A good mountain with an altitude of 1990m, located northeast of Migahara; alpine flowers can be seen in the grassland spreading near the top, while the mountain range of Shama can be seen in the east, and the hiking trails of Migahara Kogen to the west can be seen.

A day-trip hot spring facility at Dodo Onsen along Hizawa on the Upper River on the middle of the prefectural road No. 67 heading from the town of Matsumoto towards the Mikahara Kogen. Hot springs with abundant hot water are skin-friendly alkaline simple hot springs, which are effective against nerve pain and excessive stomach acid if you drink. In addition to Uchiyu, there is also a garden-style open-air bath made up of Yamabeishi. The natural tree landscape of fresh green and autumn leaves that you see from the outdoor bath is also exhilarating.