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Experience the Blessings of the Mountain and Connect With Nature
Return to Nature Experience
<Overview>
On this tour, you will enjoy hiking through the lush forest of Chubusangaku National Park and forage for mushrooms with a local guide along the way.
Dinner at the "Norikura Star&Moon Restaurant" is made extra memorable by serving a dish made with mushrooms gathered on your hike. After dining and enjoying the moon and star-filled sky, head back to your traditional onsen ryokan (inn) where you can soothe your muscles.
- Time Schedule
- 14:00 Norikura Tourist Center Meeting
14:00~16:30 Trekking & mushroom hunting guide
16:30~18:00 Hotel check-in
18:00~21:00 Norikura Star&Moon Restaurant
- Season
- From Mid Septemver to Octover
- Accommodation
- @Norikura Kogen 山水館 信濃 - Sansuikan Sinano
@Norikura Kogen 旅館 仙山乗鞍 - Senzan Norikura
@Shirahone Onsen 山水館 湯川荘 - Sansuikan Yugawaso
- Price
- From 42,800JPY~
(Mushroom Guide • Star & Moon Restaurant • 1 Night Lodging w/Breakfast))
Stress Release and Nature Experience in the Japanese Alps
Detox Healing experience
<Overview>
This experience starts with a good sweat in an outdoor tent sauna next to a clear stream in Norikura Kogen. After detoxing your body, detox your heart and soul as you enjoy dining at the Norikura Star & Moon Restaurant in the heart of the Japanese Alps with a spectacular view of Mount Norikura.
After dining and enjoying the moon and star-filled sky, head back to your traditional onsen ryokan (inn) where you can soothe your muscles.
- Time Schedule
- 14:00 Meet at Pension Tengallon Hat
14:00~16:30 Tent Sauna Experience
16:30~18:00 Hotel Check-in
18:00~21:00 Norikura Star & Moon Restaurant
- Season
- From June to Octover
- Accomodation
- @Norikura Kogen 山水館 信濃 - Sansuikan Sinano
@Norikura Kogen 旅館 仙山乗鞍 - Senzan Norikura
@Shirahone Onsen 山水館 湯川荘 - Sansuikan Yugawaso
- Price
- From 38,500JPY~
(Tent Sauna • Star & Moon Restaurant • 1 Night Lodging w/Breakfast)
Experience Mountain Culture and 1/f Fluctuations in The Japanese Alps
SOMABITO
(Woodcutter) Experience
<Plan outline>
The Birthplace of The Japanese Alps is full of tradition and history, this experience is designed to help you feel what it was like to be a SOMABITO (woodcutter) of yesteryear. You begin to feel the part as you hike through the lush forest of Chubusangaku National Park collecting listening to a local guide talk about life in the Japanese Alps and collecting firewood.
The firewood gathered along the hike will be used in a campfire at the Star & Moon Restaurant, and after dining you can experience the effects of 1/f fluctuations, like a moon and star-filled sky. At the end of the night head back to your traditional onsen ryokan (inn) where you can soothe your muscles.
- Time Schedule
- 14:00 Meet at Norikura Kogen Visitor Center
14:00~16:30 Guided Hiking & Woodcutters Experience
16:30~18:00 Hotel Check-in
18:00~21:00 Norikura Star & Moon Restaurant
- Season
- From June to Novemver
- Accomodation
- @Norikura Kogen 山水館 信濃 - Sansuikan Sinano
@Norikura Kogen 旅館 仙山乗鞍 - Senzan Norikura
@Shirahone Onsen 山水館 湯川荘 - Sansuikan Yugawaso
- Price
- From 42,800JPY~
(Hiking Guide • Star & Moon Restaurant • 1 Night Lodging w/Breakfast)
Enjoy Hiking and Mushroom Foraging in the Japanese Alps
Hiking & Mushroom Foraging
<Activity overview>
Experience the natural flora and fauna while hiking through the forest of Norikura Kogen with a local guide. At the end of your hike, you will get to try foraging for mountain mushrooms. You can enjoy foraging for mushrooms safely with a guide who will show you where to go and what pick.
- Time Schedule
- 14:00 Norikura Tourist Center Meeting
14:00~16:30 Hiking & Mushroom Foraging with Guide
(Kyukamura → Ushidome Pond → Kuchibue Path → Ichinose Meadow → Norikura BASE)
- Season
- From Mid Septemver to Octover
- Price
- 9,800JPY
(Guide fee, disability insurance fee, trekking equipment rental fee)
- Information
- ●We will guide you from Norikura Tourist Center to the trailhead by car.
●Experience may be canceled due to rain or bad weather
●Minimum number of participants: 2 ~
●Advanced ReservationsRequired: 2 days in advance
Fine dining under the stars in the Japanese Alps
Norikura Star & moon Restaurant
<Overview>
Norikura Star and Moon Restaurant connect Japan’s culinary traditions with a glamping-in-Japan experience. Surrounded by the Japanese Alps, few visitors get the chance to view the night sky from deep in the Japanese Alps. Fewer yet get to do so with a dinner that marries exceptional Shinshu foods with sukiyaki shabu-shabu, a famous Japanese camping meal. You’ll dine under the stars in a luxurious tent that compliments the surrounding nature.
- Time Schedule
- 18:00 Pick Up accomodation
18:00~21:00 luxuary dinner & Star watching
- Season
- From June to Octover
- Price
- 25,000JPY
(Price Includes: Shinshu Premium Beef Sukiyaki Dinner · Drinks · Concierge Service Fee · Insurance fee)
- Information
- ●Reservations can be accepted up to 3 days prior to the scheduled date.
●This program is an optional program that enjoys outdoor dinner.Please arrange arrangements such as transfer to your accommodation or innkee by yourself.
●Children under 12 years old are not permitted to participate in this program. For those who wish to participate with children under 12 years old, please check the charter special plan.
●Minimum number of people:1 pair 2 people ~
Tent Sauna Experience near a Clear Stream in the Japanese Alps
Tent Sauna experience
<Overview>
Enjoy a relaxing sweat in a tent sauna and relax as you cooldown time next to a clear mountain stream in Norikura Kogen.
- Contents
- Enjoy a Tent Sauna for 1-2 hours at Pension Tengallon Hat in Norikura Kogen. We will set up a tent sauna and lend out towels. Please bring your own swimsuit.
- Season
- All Season
- Price
- 5,000JPY
(2 Hour Tent Sauna Rental, Setup Fee, Insurance Fee, Towel Rental,coffee)