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[2025 year edition] spot of colored leaves in the town which can be enjoyed at an abundant Matsumoto city naturally

The north Alps and Matsumoto city circled by Utsukushigahara Takahara, a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves is also much. The autumnal tints which start from the top of the mountain can come down to the town inside gradually and love the landscape which was also dyed in flamboyant autumn at a city. I'll introduce a spot of colored leaves in Matsumoto city which can enjoy in the town which isn't only a famous tourist spot such as Kamikochi and Norikura Highland.

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History and culture of Matsumoto and the autumnal tints are enjoyed fully at the park where the schoolhouse Romain Taisho wanders pauses.

In mirror surface colored leaves by which the mountains in Utsukushigahara is spread and suits a surface of the water ahead of the gingko with vivid color and the maple, an eye, it's attracted.
In mirror surface colored leaves by which the mountains in Utsukushigahara is spread and suits a surface of the water ahead of the gingko with vivid color and the maple, an eye, it's attracted.

Effective park of relaxation of the citizen the various trees compare with a row of trees and zelkova serrata of the Himalayan cedar planted in Taisho Era, and who feels the Japanese garden with which a pond is surrounded and a vast lawn square are wide. A Western-style wooden building of the old system Matsumoto high school which has the gentle atmosphere and pauses in one corner makes them feel history and culture of Matsumoto so that I can't think Matsumoto city center.

Contrast with the schoolhouse where the old system Matsumoto high school designated as important cultural property is artistic can enjoy the colorful colored leaves a tree interweaves in the wide park, and is also excellent. It's charmed by beauty of the colored leaves which shine by a surface of the water by the Japanese garden which makes Utsukushigahara shakkei.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the beginning ofordinary year November-at the middle of November.
[The kind of trees] zelkova serrata, a gingko, a horse chestnut, a maple, a mountain maple and Japanese enkianthus.

Agata's forest park
  • The addressNagano prefecture Matsumoto city prefecture 3-2102-15 MAP
  • DirectionFrom Matsumoto station, about 23 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionI get off a tour bus and a town eastern tour of sneakers "old Matsumoto high school" from Matsumoto station, immediately.
  • TEL0263-34-3254

The naturalness spread in hills is satisfied with a panoramic view and the autumnal tints by abundant city park.

There is zoo "forest of a little bird and a small animal" etc., and you can enjoy yourself throughout the day as in the colored leaves and a place by the overall recreation.
There is zoo "forest of a little bird and a small animal" etc., and you can enjoy yourself throughout the day as in the colored leaves and a place by the overall recreation.

The vast effective park which wishes for Utsukushigahara high plain and Matsumoto city stretch in the north Alps chain of mountains, Azumino and the east in west in hilly area in the Matsumoto city. Various playground equipment and mallet golf course in addition to roller Coaster of the full length 630m which runs through a museum with observatory, a small zoo and a course in the forest also enrich Property using the topography and nature rich in a heave, and you're enjoying a citizen as the leisure spot a family can enjoy, too.

As the superb view point by which the mountains in the circumference the autumn when I color was dyed vivid where in flamboyant autumn can also get a bird's-eye view of the trees in the park, a picnic, while, I bustle with the people who visit.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the end ofordinary year October-at the middle of November.
[The kind of trees] Cherryblossom, a maple, zelkova serrata and a mountain ash.

Alps park
  • The addressNagano prefecture Matsumoto city Arigasaki 2455-11 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRMatsumoto, about 15 minutes
  • Bus DirectionI get off a ALPICO Kotsu local bus Alps park line ride for about 20 minutes "Alps park" from JRMatsumoto station, immediately.
  • TEL0263-34-5640
  • ParkingFree
  • Memo※ Even the live camera in the formal page in a Alps park can confirm the situation of colored leaves.
    (http://toybox-net.jp/alpspark/live/live.asp)

The hill of relaxation where Sakuranamiki of the autumnal tints of the autumn and spring enjoys the landscape of the each season and a view

The view I desire from the north Alps to Utsukushigahara is outstanding, and the trees which color and a Matsumoto flat are spread under the eyes, and the autumnal tints of Sakuranamiki in the park are also excellent.
The view I desire from the north Alps to Utsukushigahara is outstanding, and the trees which color and a Matsumoto flat are spread under the eyes, and the autumnal tints of Sakuranamiki in the park are also excellent.

It's starting the Matsumoto lord of castle was located in the hill where he gets a bird's-eye view of a Matsumoto flat from the north Alps, and planted a cherry tree and a maple into whole, and that opened Kojoato (Indo Shiro/dog buying quire) to common people in the end of Edo period , too. Park maintenance is one in a park of advanced first Nagano in earnest in Meiji Period, and the depth of the history and the culture is also felt by Azai retsu and Sugita-Hisajo from literati's monument on the local relation.

A view from observatory of the pillar type is wonderful, and the view which participates in ridge continuation with a Alps park is also popular. Spring is learned about as famous place for beautiful cherry blossom and the autumn is red and the cherry tree which colors and a maple are the happy hunting ground spot of colored leaves which can be enjoyed.

[Best time of colored leaves] the beginning of ordinary year November-middle ten days
[The kind of trees] a cherry tree and a maple.

Joyama park (Quire and, I'll wind, oh, oh.)
  • The addressNagano Matsumoto city Arigasaki 1139 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRMatsumoto station, about 10 minutes
  • Bus DirectionAt 7 minutes, I get off the "Shiroyama park mouth" by ALPICO Kotsu bus from JRMatsumoto station, about 15 minutes on foot
  • TEL0263-34-3254 (Matsumoto city Parks and Greens Division)
  • ParkingFree

I'm impressed with a yellow carpet. The gingko row of trees with the dramatic landscape brilliant in landscape at evening

One of a popular spot of colored leaves in Matsumoto city where the tunnel the gingko row of trees dyed in gold produces is beautiful
One of a popular spot of colored leaves in Matsumoto city where the tunnel the gingko row of trees dyed in gold produces is beautiful

General gymnasium which neighbors the "Kissei cultural hole" which is also learned about as a held main stadium of "sage and OZAWA Matsumoto festival" in summer every year. A highlight of autumn is the gingko row of trees spread in the north side by far the most. When establishing forerunner's prefectural playground in 1926, it's planted and takes pride in the age of the tree for about 100 years.

When the landscape dyed gold sheds leaves beautifully, and the ground starts to be a yellow carpet, a leaf is romantic. The form that a Matsumoto citizen visits to pick the Ginkgo Nuts which becomes a cluster up is also seen. There is a maple in premises and a contrast of yellow and the red autumnal tints can also be enjoyed.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the end ofordinary year October-at the beginning of November.
[The kind of trees] a gingko and a maple.

Matsumoto city general gymnasium
  • The addressNagano prefecture Matsumoto city 5-1, Misuzu MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRMatsumoto station, about 15 minutes
  • Bus DirectionIt's "Makoto Oyokota circulation line" from a Matsumoto bus terminal, "general gymnasium" getting off and about 1 minute on foot
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0263-32-1818 (general gymnasium desk)
  • ParkingFree

Flamboyant autumn in a gentle precinct. Spot of colored leaves in hot spring district known to people in the know

Tenmangu where the Matsumoto lord of castle made an effort toward generation after generation and upkeeping in shrine building. The vivid contrast of the trees which color in red Torii and yellow is also beautiful.
Tenmangu where the Matsumoto lord of castle made an effort toward generation after generation and upkeeping in shrine building. The vivid contrast of the trees which color in red Torii and yellow is also beautiful.

The north side in Matsumoto city and Sengen hot spring which was proud of history in kaiyu 1300 and made it palace hot water of a Matsumoto feudal clan in the Edo Period. It was the efficacious hot spring you enjoy as "drawing room in the back in Matsumoto" and was loved by Yosano Akiko and Yumeji Takehisa literati in Meiji Period, too.

The a place famous for beautiful colored autumnal leaves when a promenade was climbed for about 5 minutes from red Torii who comes before back Yakushido of one of a source with which hot spring district is dotted "number 1, source", "uguisushiyama (Bush warbler stop and, oh.) Tenmangu" where I arrive was in the hill where I look down upon hot spring district, and from which autumn hid. Beautifully, the autumnal tints of the deciduous tree can enjoy the silent excursion for viewing scarlet maple leaves away from the pother.

[Best time of colored leaves] at the middle ofordinary year October-at the middle of November.
[The kind of trees] a maple and a mountain ash.

uguisushiyama (Bush warbler stop and, oh.) Tenmangu
  • The addressNagano Matsumoto city Asama hot spring3-26-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRMatsumoto station, about 18 minutes
  • Bus Direction"Sengen hot spring" gets off by "Asama line" or "Shin-asama line" from a Matsumoto bus terminal, about 10 minutes on foot
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0263-46-1800 (Sengen hot spring tourist association)
  • ParkingI don't have that.

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