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Located in the Henbori district of Hibara-mura, the only village in Tokyo, Tanagoro Village is a tree house-style "Chame House" where you can stay with your beloved dog and a one-building cottage "Yuraku" with a barbecue house. Facilities consisting of "Tanagoro Sauna Oasis" where you can experience the sauna. "Mai Yeast Bread-na-gokoro" is a bakery that sticks to organic materials and homemade yeast on its premises. Eggs, milk, oils and fats, as well as rustic bread without additives, such as Heidi's white bread and blueberry bread are also abundant. Authentic pizzas that are baked in a stone kiln using firewood that can be eaten on the terrace are also popular.

A shop that sells handmade tofu in a land blessed with famous water. It uses Akikawa's source running water and Ako's bittern, as well as domestic soybeans. Sesame tofu made by adding white kneaded sesame to tofu, oboro tofu, etc. 5 Unohana Donuts (10: 30 ~) made from Okara is well received as a healthy snack. Momen/Kinu 189 yen, sesame 281 yen, Oboro 259 yen, Unohana 5 donuts in 550 yen.

The road connecting the ridge, with Shallow Ridge at an altitude of 903m as the highest. It used to be a living road attended by pack horses, and there is a statue of Guanyin by the roadside. Bus stop: From Asama-ridge trailhead, cross the bridge and climb inside the hamlet to the roadside. It becomes a forest climb and reaches the ridge. If you follow a pleasant ridge to the right, you will pass through the Kando Pass to the Asama Ping, which has a good view. Go down from Tokisaka Pass to the bus stop: Takisawa Falls entrance. It is about 30 minutes round trip to Takazawa Falls. The course is located at the bus stop: Asama-ridge climbing entrance → 1 hour → vertical road departure → 50 minutes → Kazu-toge → 30 minutes → Asama-ridge → 1 hour → Tokisaka-toge → 40 minutes → Bus stop: Pawasawa-no-taki entrance. Walk Gauges 4 hours 30 minutes.

Once or twice a week on the second floor of the regional exchange center, villagers with various skills transmitted to the village hold hands-on classes as lecturers. You can experience soba noodles, making konjac, miso, tea, etc. The cost is 1500-3000 yen, which is reserved.

A local museum of Hihara-mura, which is located in the mountain area and has the culture and history of the mountain village. In the early Jomon ruins, excavated items from the Nakanodaira [Nakanodaira] ruins at the highest altitude of 950m in Tokyo, as well as old folk implements and models of a private house made of Kabuto are exhibited., you can understand the ingenuity of life. Journey time 20 minutes.

The Shoya mansion in Niigata, which was built during the Edo period, has been relocated and used as an exhibition house. On the second and third floors, about 200 pieces of Sashiko works by Sashiko writer Amie Ginza (Ginza Akie) are exhibited. Kimonos and small items that are hand-embroidered with one needle and one needle in a piece of grass-dyed and indigo-dyed cotton have a unique presence. It takes 30 minutes.

The upper reaches of the Kobe River, a tributary of the Kitaakigawa River, a bluff about 100m high and about 140m wide that rises as if blocking things coming. Meishatsu, who will be designated as a natural monument in Tokyo. The narrowest place on both banks is a mountain stream with a width of about 4m, and the length of the gorge is about 60m. It is thrilling to be able to get through while holding on to chains.

There are many waterfalls on the tributaries of Akikawa, which originate from Mt. It is 60m head of Sedozawa, and it is a waterfall flowing in four steps. It is also counted as one of the 100 waterfalls in Japan. It is covered with deep green and the whole area is not visible, but the lowest waterfall is 23.3m, and it has an abyss that is said to be inhabited by large snakes. A waterfall festival is held in mid-August every year, and you can see a fantastic figure lit up. The icy winter is also beautiful.

A day-trip hot spring facility located along Mitsuzawa, at the foot of Mt. There are two large bathhouses: "Bijin no Uto", which is Japanese-style, and "Seishunyō no Uto", which is Western-style. Both have outdoor baths, which change men and women on a daily basis. Guests can enjoy a meal in the 108-tatami large hall and panoramic dining room.

There is a spot nearby where you can enjoy river play, and because the water quality is beautiful, you can see the genji fireflies from late June. In particular, naturally occurring fireflies can be seen from the vicinity of the Iwai bus stop in the Okuno area to the slippery hot springs along the Hirai River upstream. The area near the Iwai bus stop begins to dance in late June, and can be seen sequentially in the vicinity of the upper-stream slippery hot spring until about mid-July. Since there is no private parking, use public transport. Even in the dark road, the firefly was dressed to stand out from the vehicle.