Things to Do in Chubu, Japan
Central Japan: Mount Fuji, the Japan Alps, historic post towns and the Sea of Japan coast.
183 destinations across 9 prefectures
Festivals in Chubu
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Takayama Matsuri
14 to 15 April 2027
Gifu · Float procession
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Nagaoka Fireworks
2 to 3 August 2027
Niigata · Fireworks festival
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Lake Suwa Fireworks
15 August 2027
Nagano · Fireworks festival
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Katakai Fireworks
10 to 11 September 2027
Niigata · Fireworks festival
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Places to Visit in Chubu
Yarigatake
Yarigatake: Two Days from Kamikochi, Then Ladders to a 3,180 m Spire
The 3,180-meter spear-shaped peak of the Northern Alps, fifth-highest in Japan, usually climbed o...
Fugaku Wind Cave
A Flat 15-Minute Walk Through a Lava Tube Once Used for Silkworm Eggs
A horizontal lava tube 201 m long in the Aokigahara forest, about 3°C inside, with ice that lasts...
Lake Motosuko
The Clear Western Lake Whose View of Fuji Is on the 1,000-Yen Note
The westernmost and deepest of the Fuji Five Lakes; the local tourism association calls its water...
MOA Museum of Art
Seven Escalators Up a Hill to Korin's Plum Screen Above Atami
A private museum on the hill above Atami Station with about 3,500 works of mostly East Asian art,...
Tokugawa Art Museum
Owari Tokugawa Treasures and the Genji Scrolls, Shown Each November
The collection of the Owari Tokugawa family, more than 10,000 items including nine National Treas...
Yahiko Shrine
Bow Twice, Clap Four Times at Echigo's First Shrine Below Mount Yahiko
The first-ranked shrine of the old Echigo province, at the foot of 634 m Mount Yahiko, whose summ...
Michi-no-Eki Fujikawa-juku
Purple barley at an old Tokaido post town
A Route 1 station in Okazaki styled after the townhouses of Fujikawa-juku, the 37th of the Tokaid...
Michi-no-Eki Himi
Fish market lunch and a foot bath on Toyama Bay
Himi Banya-gai is the outside market of Himi fishing port, built as a row of fishermen's huts. Co...
Michi-no-Eki Noto Chirihama
Noto produce at the start of the beach driveway
A roadside station by Chirihama IC, where cars turn off for the Chirihama Nagisa Driveway along t...
Michi-no-Eki Utsukushigahara Kogen
Japan's highest roadside station, open only from spring to autumn
At the end of the Venus Line, this station sits at roughly 1,930 m on the Utsukushigahara plateau...
Mount Haku
Mount Haku: Four Hours Up to a 750-Bed Hut, Then 40 Minutes to the Top
A 2,702-meter volcano on the border of Ishikawa and Gifu, counted with Fuji and Tateyama as one o...
Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace
The Shogunate's Cannon Foundry in Izu, Four Brick Chimneys Finished in 1857
Two pairs of furnaces under four brick chimneys about 15.7 m tall, built by the shogunate between...
SCMaglev and Railway Park
Three Speed-Record Trains and 39 Real Cars at JR Central's Museum
JR Central's railway museum on the Nagoya waterfront, opened in 2011, with 39 real Shinkansen, co...
Saruhashi Bridge
Saruhashi: The Pierless Monkey Bridge 31 Meters Above the Katsura River
A wooden-clad footbridge 30.9 meters long that crosses the Katsura River gorge about 31 meters ab...
Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall
The Yaotsu Museum of the Diplomat Who Wrote 2,139 Visas in 1940
A small cypress-built museum in the Hill of Humanity park in Yaotsu about Chiune Sugihara, the Ja...