18 Apr 2012

Chigirajinsentei

- Chigirajinsentei

P8292966
P8292966 / shishamo72

Telephone: 0279-72-3355
Accommodation charges: 16,950 yen - 36,900 yen
The number of rooms: 34 rooms
Fountainhead: Koganeno yu


- Equipment
open-air bath, acharter bath, beauty salon, guest room with an open-air bath, banquet hall, conference room, room foods, the Internet, and credit card.

P8303086
P8303086 / shishamo72


The wooden structure which feels history and an air.
Eight baths of 100% of the fountainhead.

- About a bath
inner hot water, open-air bath, and all four charter baths -- Koganenoyu 100% of hot water fountainhead free-flowing hot-spring water. There is also a bathtub whose bathing is possible standing.

- The feature of a hotel
Foundation of this hotel is a long-established hotel which goes back even to 1502, and old-fashioned wooden structure of 3 stories is the feature.
the middle of the Ishidangai is immediately located in the side.
It is preeminent for the view from a hotel, and it can overlook mountains, such as a mountain stream and Haruna mountain, from the room or a bath.
The ON store of cafe & Bar "Rakusui Rakuzan" of a calm atmosphere which exists inside a hall is possible also for a general visitor.
It is a space exactly good for taking a rest, when you get tired with the Ishidangai walk.



- Parking lot
There are four places in a site.

Official site[http://jinsentei.com/]

Address: 45 Ikaho, Ikaho-cho, Shibukawa-City, Gumma-Prefecture


P8293005
P8293005 / shishamo72

P8292977
P8292977 / shishamo72

P8292970
P8292970 / shishamo72

13 Apr 2012

Ikaho Green Bokujo

- Ikaho Green pasture
The pasture theme park which spreads on the ground with the abundant green of the Haruna Mt. foot.
P8292896
P8292896 / shishamo72


The Hara Museum arc which is an annex of the contemporary art hall Hara Museum in Tokyo Shinagawa adjoins.
The admission ticket of the art museum and a pasture is sold by a set except the long holiday season in May, and winter.
The circumference of a pasture serves as an animal and peculiar space which can enjoy nature and an art.
 The admission fee discount ticket is also published.
P8292935
P8292935 / shishamo72


- The contents of the attraction
Experience attractions, such as the milking classroom of a cow, the walk of a rabbit, horse riding, feeding, and making original butter.
Inspection of events, such as a sheep dog show, and a farm plant, etc. can be performed.
Since the institution which people can play with a dog is also located at this place, it is also possible to pass one day with a pet dog here.
However, except a large-sized dog.
Sheep (Ikaho Green Bokujo)
Sheep (Ikaho Green Bokujo) / nhayashida



P8292946
P8292946 / shishamo72


- Spatial relationship
This pasture is located in front right-hand side from Ikaho Hot Spring, seeing from the direction of Shibukawa.
When going from the direction of Mizusawa, it is on the left-hand side which followed the end [3-way junction in front of a visitor center] of the Ikaho Hot Spring this side to the right, and crossed the Ikaho country club.

ヤギ
ヤギ / nhayashida

  • Address:
    2844-1, Kanai, Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture, Japan 
  • Access [car]:
    The direction about 15 minutes of Ikaho Hot Spring from the Shibukawa interchange 
  • Access [buss]:
    It is 15 minutes [alighting in front of the Green Bokujo] by the one for Ikaho Hot Spring from Shibukawa Station.










伊香保のグリーン牧場
伊香保のグリーン牧場 / karinckarinc


P8292862
P8292862 / shishamo72


- A charge/business hours, etc.
Admission and Operating Hours | IKAHO GREEN BOKUJO[English]

- Admission-free campaign
Up to the end of December, 2012 -- Hotel Kogure, Kishigon ryokan, Moriaki ryokan, Fukuichi, Kokuya, Hotel Kimura, Kounkan, Hotel Todoroki, Hotel Matsumoto, Oyado Tamaki,  and Eisenkaku -- when it applies to each Ikaho Hot Spring hotel front, you get one group to publish an one-sheet admission ticket.
When dropping in before check-in, you will put connection of a check into each lodging. 

Yokotekan is full of the Taisho romance

- The feature of the Yokotekan

The Yokotekan is located in the upper one slippage on the left-hand side of "the town of stone steps."
One of the long-established Japanese hotels with a hot spring in Ikaho
The breath of the Taisho era romance is felt from the main building of 4 stories of the total cypress structure built in Taisho 9 [A.D. 1920].



Ikaho
Ikaho / Ikoma_photo

- Directly from the hot spring source of "Koganenoyu [golden hot water]"
"Koganenoyu" is carrying out inner hot water, the charter family bath which exists three, and reboiling [ which are adding neither of directly from the hot spring source and water at the fountainhead ].

- Access by a privately-owned car
Going is directly deposited before the door of a hotel and the key of a car is deposited in vehicles charge by car.
Vehicles charge moves to an exclusive parking lot.

伊香保 (2)
伊香保 (2) / machu.




  • Telephone:
    0279-72-3244
  • accommodation-charges:
    12,750 yen - 20,100 yen
  • number of rooms:
    42 
  • Fountainhead:
    Koganenoyu [Golden hot water]
  • Address:
    11, Ikaho, Ikahomachi, Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture Japan (a near stone-steps town) 

- Equipment
A charter bath / beauty salon / banquet hall / conference room / barrier-free / room foods / credit card

12 Apr 2012

Osawaya

The tempura set of the wheat noodles served on a bamboo tray of the Osawaya, and the maitake mushrooms of a noted product.
水沢うどん 大澤屋
水沢うどん 大澤屋 / yoppy


There is a Taro Okamoto work "chair of a hand" in the inside of a shop of the Osawaya.
大澤屋
大澤屋 / yoppy


The Osawaya which is proud of the maximum scale also in the store which offers Mizusawa Japanese noodles.
The store has the first store and the second store.

In the first store, much pictures other than the object of Taro Okamoto's work of art "chair a hand's", etc. are exhibited, and inside of a shop serves as a place which can come into contact with an art freely.

Mizusawa Japanese noodles often seen in souvenir stores, such as a rest area, are a product of the Osawaya in many cases, and correspond also to the mail order on the Internet, and it can obtain them at many EC sites.

- Menu and a price
  • Wheat noodles served on a bamboo tray -- 735 yen 
  • Large wheat noodles served on a bamboo tray with one wild grass -- 1,050 yen 
  • Wheat noodles served on a bamboo tray with maitake-mushrooms tempura -- 1,260 yen

    In addition, are various. 


- Osawaya The first store
  • Address:
    125-1, Mizusawa, Ikahomachi, Shibukawa-City, Gunma-Prefecture, Japan 
  • Business hours:
    10:00-16:00 
  • Fixed holiday:
    The 1st-3rd Thursdays [those with change]
  • Telephone:
    0279-72-3295
  • The number of seats:
    300 seat / whole building prohibition of smoking

- Osawaya The second store
  • Address:
    198, Mizusawa, Ikahomachi, Shibukawa-City, Gunma-Prefecture, Japan
  • Business hours:
    8:30-17:00 [it is extended business before a holiday]
  • Fixed holiday:
    The 1st-3rd Wednesdays [those with change]
  • Telephone:
    0279-72-5566
  • Smoking and those with a nonsmoking seat / those with two single rooms




Feature of Mizusawa's noodles/udon noodles

Haruna Shrine [Haruna Jinja]

Haruna Shrine [Haruna Jinja] is a storied shrine with 1400 years of history located in the southwest of the Haruna lake.

Besides Homusubinokami [God of fire], and Haniyamahimenokami [God of ground), from Meiji Era, OyamatsuminoKami, Minumano-okaminokami, Omononushinokami, Konohanasakuyahimenokami, etc. are enshrined together.

榛名神社 haruna shrine
榛名神社 haruna shrine / puffyjet


It believes in this shrine thickly as God of "peacefulness, national peace, extinguishment of a fire, better luck, the safety of the family, five-cereals fertility, prosperity in business, matchmaking, and easy delivery protection."
In order to obtain such divine favor, the persons involved in engineering works, electric power, electricity, a communication facility, a china, and pottery, etc. visit mostly.
[It quotes from the official site]

 榛名神社 haruna shrine
榛名神社 haruna shrine / puffyjet


- Natural treasure "Yatatenosugi"
The big tree for presumed age-of-a-tree 1000 years which is one of the highlights of Haruna Shrine, and Yatatenosugi became a natural treasure specified by a country 1933.

SUGI / Cryptomeria japonica / 矢立杉(やたてのすぎ)
SUGI / Cryptomeria japonica / 矢立杉(やたてのすぎ) / TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋)


- The Japan specification important cultural property "Soryumon" 
Soryumon [a gate which imitated twins' dragon] which is here is the total zelkova structure, and completion is 1855.

The left is also called Hokoiwa and alias "candle rock".
榛名神社 haruna shrine
榛名神社 haruna shrine / puffyjet


- The main shrine
The main shrine of the Japan specification important cultural property.
Completion in 1806.

Japanese religious architecture / 榛名神社(はるなじんじゃ)
Japanese religious architecture / 榛名神社(はるなじんじゃ) / TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋)

Japanese religious architecture / 榛名神社(はるなじんじゃ)
Japanese religious architecture / 榛名神社(はるなじんじゃ) / TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋


- Misugataiwa
Strangely shaped rocks representing Haruna Shrine which rise up behind a main shrine "Misugataiwa."
The object of worship is deified in the cave in the inside of rock.
榛名神社 御姿岩 haruna shrine misugata stone
榛名神社 御姿岩 haruna shrine misugata stone / puffyjet


- Tsudzuraiwa [a nine-box rock]
The "Tsudzuraiwa" which can be seen in the middle of the promenade for about 50 minutes which continues from the reverse side of a shrine to the Haruna lake.
This name stuck from the appearance from which the rock is a winding path.
Tsudzura-Iwa, (Rock) at Haruna
Tsudzura-Iwa, (Rock) at Haruna / New York Public Library


- Data of Haruna Shrine
  • Address: 849, Harunamachi, Takasaki-City, Gumma-Prefecture, Japan
  • Telephone: 027-374-9050 
  • official site: Haruna Shrine [Japanese only]
  • Parking lot: To the free parking only for a worshipper, or a circumference store parking lot besides a folklore-data hall

- Access by the train and a bus
From JR Takasaki Station west entrance, the Haruna lake going via Hongo is taken by Gumma bus, and it comes down at the stop in front of Haruna Shrine, and is on foot 15 minutes.
Only before [ from 8:30 and 9:30 ] Takasaki Station and No. 1 per time.
When it rides on from for 8:30 minutes, it arrives in front of a shrine 9:40.

- The bus of return at Takasaki Station
It is 40 from minute for every time.

- Bus of return to Ikaho
It is 40 from minute for every time.
To the Haruna lake, it arrives in about 10 minutes from a shrine.
It can go to Ikaho by change of a bus from the Haruna lake.

- Access by a car
About 1 hour after Takasaki I.C. / Maebashi I.C.
About 40 minutes after Shibukawa I.C.

9 Apr 2012

Oyado Tamaki



  • Telephone:
    0279-72-2232
  • Accommodation charges:
    16,800 Yen - 39,900 Yen
  • The number of rooms:  22
  • Fountainhead:
    Koganeno-yu/Shiroganeno-yu
  • Address:
    87-2, Ikahomachi, Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture, Japan
    [Near by Ishidangai]

-Equipment

open-air bath / banquet hall / bedrock bath / beauty salon / A guest room with an open-air bath / charter bath / conference room / room foods / credit card /stay without a meal/ day's trip /Ikaho green pasture admission ticket free distribution

- The feature of a hotel 
The institution to which equipment of a bedrock bath, esthetic, etc. was substantial.
There is a prejudice to an aroma or a scent, such as burning a scent outside the front door.
This hotel has the track record taken up by media repeatedly.

The guest room "Kaede" [one-night 22,050 yen-] where the Shigaraki-yaki bath was attached.

The guest room where the hinoki bath was attached "Hourai" [one-night 21,000 yen-]


- About a bath
The two fountainhead is used.
"Koganeno-yu[Golden hot water]" applied the fountainhead and is carrying out it.
"Shiroganeno-yu[Hot water of silvery snow]" is adding water by the circle method, and is changing it to day by day 5.
Both are sterilized by chlorine.


Ikaho Rotenburo [open-air bath]

The public open-air bath which springs to Yumoto.
Bathing of the fresh 100% fountainhead free-flowing hot-spring water of "Koganenoyu" can be enjoyed.
The circular bathtub is divided into the half and divided into hotter hot water and more tepid hot water.
To those who want to take a long bath, it is best.

 




The fountainhead gush mouth in the site of an open-air bath

Since the towel containing the logo of the "Ikaho Hot Spring open-air bath" is sold, it may be good for a souvenir.
In addition, since there is no washing place, a shampoo is impossible.

- Access, a parking lot, etc.
This open-air bath reaches stone steps from the Ikaho bus terminal, and is located on foot at the point for about 30 minutes.
since -- it is also one method to use the town bus [hot spring resort round type omnibus taxi] of 100 yen around which it operates about two in 1 hour.
A parking lot is the closest to a Kajika bridge parking lot [24-hour no charge].
Sightseeing spots which "Kajika bridge", and a hot spring can drink, such as a place and the Hashimoto hotel, are near the open-air bath.

  • Address: 581, Yumoto, Ikaho, Ikahomachi, Shibukawa City,Gunma Prefecture,Japan
  • Telephone:
    0279-72-2488
  • Access [car]:
    It is 25 minutes from Kan-etsu Shibukawa Ikaho IC to R17, prefectural road 33 course, and Haruna and the direction of Ikaho. 
  • Nearby parking lot:
    Kajika bridge parking lots are 24-hour free [20-set and uninhabited]
  • business hours:
    [April-September]9:00-19:00
    [October-March]10:00-18:00 
  • Charge:
    450 yen 
  • Fixed holiday:
    The 1st-3rd Thursdays

Mizusawa Kannon temple

The temple of the No. 16 amulet-issuing office of the Bando 33 Kannon is the Mizusawa Kannon temple.

84 stone steps of the precincts-of-a-temple back besides Rokkaku-do located with Hondo in this side were reached and also and there is a guardian deity "Iidunadaigongen"

In Shaka-do, Buddha statues and Buddhist paintings, such as the Gautama Buddha Buddhist triads, can be seen for free.

Mizusawa Temple 水澤寺
Mizusawa Temple 水澤寺 / urawa


If New Year's Eve and the New Year come, many visitors will visit, and the precincts of a temple show serious prosperity.
 

水澤観音 六角堂 Mizusawakannon Rokkakudo
水澤観音 六角堂 Mizusawakannon Rokkakudo/ gunmernohito

After spending the time from which the heart is washed clean calm with the Mizusawa Kannon, it is not bad to visit and eat the store of nearby Mizusawa Japanese noodles with great relish, either.

水沢うどん 大澤屋
水沢うどん 大澤屋 / yoppy


- Mizusawa kannnon(Mizusawa temple)
  • Address:
    Postcode377-0103 Mizusawa214,Ikahomachi,Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture,Japan
  • Tel:
    0279-72-3619
  • Worship time:
    8:00 to 17:00 
  • Fixed holiday:
    Vacationless/worship
  • Admission fee:
    No charge
  • parking lot:
    -- Large-sized -- 30 set/-- usually -- 400 sets/Motorbike -- unrestricted

Access
- Buss
  1. Take Gumma Buss "Ikaho Hot Spring line" from JR Takasaki Station.
    It gets down "Mizusawa Kannon mae."
    (Gumma Buss timetable  * notes timetable notation "Mizusawa") 
  2. Take Kan-etsu traffic Buss from JR Shibukawa Station.
    It gets down "Mizusawa entrance visiter center mae."
    The Gumma Buss bound for"the Takasaki Station" entrainment
    It gets down "in front of the Mizusawa Kannon."
    (Kan-etsu traffic timetable  * notes timetable notation "Mizusawa")
- Car
 About 30 minutes after Shibukawa Ikaho IC (about 12 km)



The symbol of Ikaho "Ishidangai"[stone-steps town]

Why are there 365 stone steps?

365 steps of stone steps which are the symbols of Ikaho Hot Spring are loaded with the wish of prosperity of "Coming to want a hot spring resort to be prosperous for 365 days per year"


The stone steps in Ikaho.
In fact, several years ago became 365 steps, and it was difficult to carry out the check by viewing by car before from the jomosanzan panorama highway which is a main street.
However, it is reputation as the place became intelligible by the number of stages having been extended.

The Roka Tokutomi commemoration literary hall located near foot and Akiko Yosano's song minced by stone steps are heaping-up-emotion of hot-springs resort guarantee.

- The circumference institution of a stone-steps town
The Ikaho shrine is on the top of stone steps, a barrier is located at the foot, and, right and left, a rifle range, a mom-and-pop candy store, etc. of a retro atmosphere stand side by side.

Bug Spray / the_toe_stubber

It seems that an old good time still drifts from the rows of houses although the present stone steps are repaired over five years from 1980.
in addition, a restaurant, a tea stall, a souvenir shop, a sweet bean bun shop, a liquor store, and a footbath -- it drops in, and hot water etc. are crowdedly located in a line, and are always full of vigor as the main street in Ikaho.


- "Small frontage" which signs that hot water is divided can observe
The hotel around stone steps has many long-established hotels also in Ikaho.
From the "Koganenoyu" fountainhead No. 2 in the site of the Ikaho Hot Spring open-air bath, a hot spring of 1,443 liters/m (1.4t) gushes, and it is distributed to a stone-steps town or each hotel around a Hototogisu station.

The appearance divided by being transmitted can observe the pipe of the tree of the chestnut called "Yutoi" from the small frontage which is around stone steps in large numbers.

The small frontage located in the center of stone steps.
If it looks in --

It turns out that the water-white and fresh hot water before oxidizing is flowing with sufficient vigor.

- Broadcast live every day.

タイトルなし
タイトルなし / nhayashida

At Shibukawa City's site, the situation of a stone-steps town can be observed in the flesh.
Shibukawa / Ikaho stone-steps town hot spring live camera
It is also good to observe the event performed for every season, and good also for carrying out inspection before a travel exactly.
It may also be good to leave beyond recollection.


Hara Museum ARC

The art museum opened in the annex in Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo Shinagawa in 1988.
 The "Hara Museum of Contemporary Art collection" which Hara Museum possesses, a "Hara Rokuro collection" centering on the antique art object which is not exhibited in Hara Museum, etc. are exhibited.
Moreover, exhibition of the contemporary art work is also carried out.
A museum shop and cafe d'Art are put side by side, and the Ikaho Green Bokujo [pasture] also adjoins.

Hara Museum ARC
Hara Museum ARC / karinckarinc


- Opening time
9:30-16:30 (admission is to 16:00)

- Charge
Adult [more than a junior high school student] of 1,000 yen
Child [3 years-old - schoolchild] 500 yen

- Closure day
Thursday (except for a public holiday and August)
winter,which change exhibition,January 1
* It may be closed at the time of stormy weather.
* Please ask by telephone[0279-24-6585] for details and carry out.

- Access
Train: -- JR Joetsu Line "Shibukawa Station" -- Buss for Ikaho Hot Spring -- 15 minute -> "before green pasture" alighting, or "Shibukawa Station" -- a taxi -- 10 minutes
Car: -- going to Ikaho Hot Spring from Kan'etsu National Expressway "Shibukawa Ikaho interchange" -- 8 km (15 minutes)

- Tel:0279-24-6585

- Address
2844-1, Kanai, Shibukawa City, Gumma Prefecture,Japan

Hara museum ark

- Artist
Agam, Yaacov/Aguilar, José Roberto/Albers, Josef/Appel, Karel/Arakawa, Shusaku/Arman/Armando

Batuz/Boltanski, Christian/Borofsky, Jonathan
   
Castellani, Enrico/Chang, Yung-Tsun/Choi, Jae-Eun/Christo/Clemente, Francesco/César

Dine, Jim/Domoto, Hisao/Dubuffet, Jean

Endo, Toshikatsu/Enokura, Koji

Fautrier, Jean/Fink, Aaron/Fisher, Joel/Fontana, Lucio/Fukuda, Miran/Fuller, Backminster

Hori, Kosai

Ida, Shoichi/Indiana, Robert/Inoue, Bukichi

Johns, Jasper/Judd, Donald

Kadishman, Menashe/Kapoor, Anish/Kenmochi, Kazuo/Kiefer, Anselm/Klasen, Peter/Klein, Yves/Kowalski, Piotr/Kubota, Shigeko/Kudo, Tetsumi/Kuo, Chen-Chang/Kusama, Yayoi

Lai, Jun/Lai, Chi-Man/Lakner, Laszlo/Lee, UFan/Lewitt, Sol/Lichtenstein, Roy

Miki, Tomio/Mishima, Kimiyo/Miyajima, Tatsuo/Miyawaki, Aiko/Mogami, Hisayuki/Morimura, Yasumasa/Moskowitz, Robert/Motherwell, Robert/Motonaga, Sadamasa

Nakamura, Kazumi/Nakaoka, Shintaro/Nakazato, Hitoshi/Neumann, Max/Nevelson, Louise/Noda, Hiroji/Noland, Kenneth C.

Ohtake, Shinro/Ohtake, Tomie/Okumura, Lydia/Oldenburg, Claes/Onosato, Toshinobu

Paik, Nam June/Polke, Sigmar/Pollock, Jackson

Rath, Alan/Rauschenberg, Robert/Raynaud, Jean-Pierre/Riopelle, Jean-Paul/Rosenquist, James/Rothko, Mark/Ruscha, Edward

Saito, Yoshishige
/Sarmento, Juliao/Satoh, Tokihiro/Sekine, Nobuo/Sherman, Cindy/Shibata, Kousaku/Shinoda, Toko/Shinohara, Ushio/Shiraga, Kazuo/Simmons, Laurie/Smith, David/Sonnier, Keith/Soulages, Pierre/Stella, Frank/Suda, Yoshihiro/Sugai,Kumi/Sugimoto, Hiroshi/Sultan, Donald

Tada, Minami/Tatsuno, Toeko/Tinguely, Jean/Toya, Shigeo/Tàpies, Antoni/Vasarely, Victor

Warhol, Andy/Wesselmann, Tom/Wols

Yamaguchi, Takeo/Yanagi, Yukinori/Yokoo, Tadanori/Yoshida, Katsuro