# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Michi-no-Eki Utsukushigahara Kogen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-utsukushigahara-kogen): Nagano, Michi no eki. At the end of the Venus Line, this station sits at roughly 1,930 m on the Utsukushigahara plateau, the highest of any michi-no-eki in Japan. It closes for the snow season; in 2026 it is open from 25 April to 15 November. - [Michi-no-Eki Raiden Kurumi-no-Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-raiden-kurumi-no-sato): Nagano, Michi no eki. A stop on the Asama Sunline in Tomi, a town known for walnuts. Buy walnut sweets and Shinshu soba, then look round the free exhibit on Raiden Tameemon, the Edo-period wrestler born here. - [Lake Suwa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-suwa): Nagano, Attraction. Nagano's largest lake, about 16 km round, with the hot-spring town of Kami-Suwa on its eastern shore and a lakeside path for walking and cycling. Every August 15 it holds one of Japan's biggest fireworks displays, and in hard winters the ice used to buckle into the omiwatari ridges, last seen in 2018. - [Nozawa Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nozawa-onsen): Nagano, Onsen. A hot spring village in northern Nagano with 13 public bathhouses, the soto-yu, that anyone may use for free. Villagers have looked after them since the Edo period through groups called yu-nakama, so drop a coin in the box by the door. The water comes straight from the source and nobody cools it for you. - [Michi-no-Eki Shinshu Tsutaki-juku](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-shinshu-tsutaki-juku): Nagano, Michi no eki. A Route 20 stop just inside Nagano from the Yamanashi border, named after an old Koshu Kaido post town. It has its own hot spring, Tsuta-no-Yu, and a market rebuilt in April 2026 with a tasting machine for sake from nine Suwa breweries. - [Mount Ontake](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-ontake): Nagano, Mountain. A 3,067-meter active volcano on the Nagano and Gifu border, the second-highest volcano in Japan after Fuji. The 2014 eruption killed 58 climbers and 5 remain missing; the summit area now opens only for a summer season, usually from early July to mid-October. The Ontake Ropeway lifts you to the seventh station at 2,150 meters. - [Mount Yake](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-yake): Nagano, Mountain. The active volcano on the Nagano and Gifu border above Kamikochi, climbed as a day hike to its 2,444 m north peak, where fumaroles steam beside the trail. Check the Japan Meteorological Agency's alert level before you go; the higher south peak is closed. - [Yarigatake](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yarigatake): Nagano, Mountain. The 3,180-meter spear-shaped peak of the Northern Alps, fifth-highest in Japan, usually climbed over two days from Kamikochi. The final 30 minutes from Yarigatake Sanso go up rock, chains and iron ladders, and on peak holidays the queue for them can last hours. - [Hotakadake](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hotakadake): Nagano, Mountain. A horseshoe of rock peaks around the Karasawa cirque, topped by Okuhotaka at 3,190 m, the highest point in Nagano and Gifu and the third-highest mountain in Japan. The hut below the summit puts the walk from Kamikochi at about nine hours, so almost everyone spends a night on the way. - [Lake Nojiri](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-nojiri): Nagano, Attraction. Nagano's second-largest lake after Suwa, near the Niigata border, where Naumann elephant fossils and tools left by people about 40,000 years ago have come out of the lakebed since the first dig in 1962. A museum on the shore shows the finds, and from May to October the lake fills with kayaks, SUP boards and a sightseeing boat. - [Akiyamago](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/akiyamago): Nagano, Region. Thirteen hamlets strung about 20 km along the Nakatsu River gorge, five in Sakae village (Nagano) and eight in Tsunan town (Niigata), with a Heike refugee legend and a riverbed at Kiriake where hot water seeps up and you dig your own bath. No train comes near; the last stretch is a shared taxi you book the day before. - [Ueda Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ueda-castle): Nagano, Castle. The Sanada clan’s stronghold is remembered for resisting the Tokugawa armies twice. Today Ueda’s stone walls, three turrets and restored East Gate form an atmospheric castle park within walking distance of the shinkansen station. - [Shimoguri no Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shimoguri-no-sato): Nagano, Attraction. A farming hamlet in the Toyama valley of southern Iida, its houses and potato fields spread over slopes of up to 38 degrees between about 800 and 1,100 meters. A narrow road climbs to it, vehicles 7 meters or longer are banned, and without a car you need a bus, then a taxi or a booked shared taxi. Page 2 of 2. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?page=1&prefecture_id=20 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?page=2&prefecture_id=20) Last updated: 2026-11-10