2019.5 Life in Yatsugatake in GW

I visited Yatsugatake during Golden week, which was over a week national holiday in Japan.

2019.4.29
I took rapid train, Azusa, from Shinjuku station to Kobuchizawa station.
And then transferred to Koumi-line to Kai-Oizumi station.

I went to local farmers shop, Panoramamarket, to get some vegetables for dinner. Unfortunately, they were sold out.
A lot of people who have a holiday home in Yatsugatake seemed to have bought vegetable in the morning.

I went to hot spring, Enmei-no-Yu, which is located at Road station Kobuchizawa. Road station was recently renovated so there were some new craftsman-shops.

After taking hot spring, I went to **Himawari market **to buy some food for dinner. It had some food, fortunately!

2019.4.30
As it was raining, I decided to visit some museums at that day.

First one was Ehon museum Kiyosato. Ehon means picture book.
It featured a picture book writer, Errol Le Cain.

Second one is Kuroi Ken Ehon House.
It was a five minute walk from first museum.

I used to read picture books of Korowan, it features a illustrator of Korowan.
Korowan is a name of a dog.

I bought a postcard of Korowan.

I dropped on Moegi no Mura. It’s a place for some restaurants, sweets shop, cafe, craftsman shop.

There were some wooden ornaments.

One of the shop, Le Chat des Bois, sells miscellaneous good related cats.

Ornaments of cats. So cute.

I walked to a view spot of waterfall but I could hardly see anything but fog.

On the way to the third museum, I dropped on Sanbuichi-Yusui, which is a place of spring water.

Around the spring water, there was a park.

This is the third museum on that day, the Art Museum of a Travel and a Fancy.

Taking pictures is allowed inside the museum.
At that time, an artist Ai Koike was featured.

In her paintings, characters have a roll.
Some of them are named Tiki (a character of a girl rabbit) and Puffy (a character of a boy chick).
They are traveling for seeking something.

The museums offers some drinks and foods.
I ordered tea and apple pie. There was no one but me, I could get relax time.

Around the museum, Sakuma is in bloom.

On the way to hot spring, I found another museum, Kiyoharu Art Colony. Although I couldn’t visit there because the lack of time,
I want to visit it next time.

I went to the different hot spring from the previous day Ozira-no-Yu.

2019.5.1
These pictures below were taken around the hotel where I stayed. I don’t know the name of most of flowers, though.

I know this, dandelion.

Buds of Azalea.

A sunny day!!
I went to a Road Station Minami Kiyosato.
There are so many carp streamers.
Mossphiox were full in bloom.

Calorie was also beautiful.

I could climb up to the park using lift.

There were lot of flowers.

When I was heading to lunch, I visited local library.

The wooden building was nice.

I had lunch at a vegan restaurant, Kitchen Ohana.

This is the restaurant. This type of house is what is called “Kominka ”

It has a rocket stove.

Here my lunch, Ohisama plate, came.

After lunch, I went to Makiba parkto meet these animal.

When it started raining, sheep were also under the roof.

I went to another hot spring, Takane-no-Yu.

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I went to the bakery El bethel at 8:30 in the morning, but it had already sold out.
As it was in Golden week, it seemed that I had to go there at the time of opening.

I went to Kiyosato terrace, where I could go up to the top of mountain with lift. It’s about 1,900m high.

There was a lift for wheelchair.

The view was nice.

There was a post on the top of mountain!

The picture from lift when I was going down.

I dropped in the view spot. This bridge is named “Higashi-Sawa Oohashi”.

From the parking space of Higashi-Sawa Oohashi, there was a trekking path going on, which is named.

I tried walking a little bit.

I also dropped on Makiba Park to see this view as it had been raining the previous day.

After lunch, I went up the top of Tennyo mountain by car.

Actually, the top of mountain is the entrance of another mountain, Gongen-dake.
Just 20-minute climbing took me to the first view spot Ama-no-Kawahara.

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I went to Kanon-Daira which had also nice view of mountain.

Lunch was Soba(noodle) restaurant at Fujino-ya. Although it was a soba restaurant, it was also famous for Torinotsu(goblet).

I ordered Tempura soba.

I went to the milk factory, Yatsuren.
It also sold a soft cream using just-made-milk.
This offered one of my favorite soft creams.

I ate dinner at Makiba restaurant.

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I ate lunch at vegan restaurant, Kitchen Ohana again!

This time, I ordered sweets, strawberry tart.

I also dropped at the bakery Atsutama bakery. It also makes sweets.

I got cream puffs and canele.

I visited the village of Heidi.

So many flowers.

On the way to hot spring , I dropped on a sweet shop, Yatsugatake Maroon.
I got cheese cake.
I ate too much sweets on this day. Those were all decisions so it was fine.

2019.5.5
The last day of staying at Yatsugatake.
I went to Seisen-Ryo.
There were some shops, restaurants, farms, bakery.

I enjoyed a week stay at Yatsugatake.

Fin