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In the main "Nami no Pool", the size and shape of the waves change and you can experience the sea of the summer. There is also a 150m lap "Nagare Pool", elementary school students only "Rodeo Mountain", water sliders, Jacuzzi and sauna, so you can enjoy all day. "Wakuwaku Waterland" playing with water play equipment is new from April of the year of Reiwa 5 (2023). For 45 minutes high school students and above 2000 yen, children 1000 yen.

Road station facing Route 122. It consists of a produce direct sales office and a restaurant that sells Maitake mushrooms, rice, fresh vegetables, and unadded pickles, which are a specialty of the Kurohone district, as well as a tourist information center and a contact hall with a free rest space, and a produce processing office. The produce direct sale also sells wild plants such as brash and bracken in the spring and mushrooms in the fall. The restaurant boasts udon and soba noodles made from flour and buckwheat flour from Gunma Prefecture, and the Yamabiko set meal of 1400 yen with mini soba and tempura is recommended by the store manager.

In addition to the exhibition of materials about mountain work and sericulture, which were the living businesses of the Kurohone district, there is a corner that introduces Nagataro Hoshino, who established the first civilian silk mill in the early Meiji era, and his younger brother, Shuichiro Arai, who traveled to the United States to directly export silk. Where Abstract 20 Minutes.

It recreates coppice forest and satoyama scenery such as fields and streams on a 45ha site. An experiential educational facility where you can search for and pick up various insects, including butterflies and beetles, and carefully observe their ecology. At the Insect Observatory, you can see creatures of satoyama such as diving beetle and mantis mantis, insects in the world such as the Hercules giant beetle, and the largest butterfly in Japan. Various programs such as craft experience are also held. In the oyabuki private house, we carry out old-fashioned play and experience of satoyama life where you can feel the nature of the four seasons.

The colon-shaped iced manju 248 yen is a long-selling product that has been around since the Showa 20 s. A rich, milk-flavored ice candy contains red bean paste boiled with fine sugar.

Kororin Shumai, which is made by mixing potatoes and onion-centric ingredients, molded and steamed in round, is Kiryu's local gourmet. The texture is not similar to any kind of food. You can taste it with a special sauce. 5 pieces 180 yen ~.

We have products using Kiryu weave and silk from 180 yen, which can be used for small souvenirs and gifts, and we also have a large selection of foods that represent the region, such as the flower of the local specialty flower, 550 yen, and Kiryu's specialty, Imokawa udon, 330 yen.

Kiryu is a leisure spot in Oka Park, and there are seven vehicles such as a Ferris wheel on a hill just after leaving the zoo's north gate. If you take a mini rail around the park, you can overlook Kiryu city.

It is based on about 1200 works collected over 40 years by Eiji Okawa (1924-2008), a businessman from Kiryu. The collection of works, currently numbering about 7300 pieces, has a permanent display of Japanese and contemporary Western paintings, mainly by Shusuke Matsumoto and Hideo Noda. In Western painting, there are about 600 pieces, mainly from Picasso, Louau, and Ben Shahn, who represent the 20th century America. It covers a wide range of items, including about 100 Japanese paintings and textiles by Junichi Arai, a global textile planner.

This memorial building was constructed in 1934 (Showa 9) as the office of the Kiryu Textile Association. Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan (Cultural Affairs Agency) in 1997 (1997), Japan Heritage Site in 2016 (2016), and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Modernized Industrial Heritage in 2007. In the textile materials exhibition room on the second floor of the textile memorial hall, you can also watch videos on the history of Kiryu textiles and the manufacturing process, and also display the products of the traditional craft "Kiryu weaving", as well as old handloom machines and textile tools. At the first floor, a booth for Japanese and Western clothing is provided, and Kiryu textile products are displayed and sold. It holds a planned exhibition once a month.