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県外からのお客様にいつも長野に来る理由をお聞きします。この連休はりんご関係が多いです。マイ木を持っている家族が収穫しに来たり、ジャムを作る為にりんごを取りに来たり、子供達にりんご狩りを体験さす為に来たり、等など。亀清旅館のロビーに宮下農園から頂いたりんごをまた「ご自由にどうぞ」とフロントにおいてあります。上山田は本当にりんごに恵まれています。

Whenever we have guests from out of the prefecture, I always ask them their reason for coming to Nagano. For this holiday weekend, for many of them their purpose for coming to Nagano was: Apples! One family sponsors a whole tree and came to harvest it, another came to get apples for making jam, another came to give their kids the experience of picking apples, etc., etc. One local apple orchard, Miyashita Farm, gave us a bunch of apples and we have them set out at our front counter for the guests to have. Kamiyamada is certainly blessed with delicious apples!

戸倉上山田温泉の中心にある公園に今年はまた冬のイルミネーションをやります。我々旅館青年部が飾り付けしました。長野の寒い冬にイルミネーションの温もりをどうぞ、お楽しみに。

This year once again their will be winter lights in the park in the middle of Togura Kamiyamada Onsen. The other innkeepers and I put up the lights today. Nagano's winter is bitingly cold, but hopefully these lights will warm peoples' hearts.

おきゃくさまに戸倉駅へ連れて行く途中で駅の上の天狗公園によりました。日本一大きい天狗と言う説があるので美咲ちゃんは納得できたようです。公園の桜の木の葉っぱの皆が落ちていました。冬がこれから始まりそうです。今年の秋の紅葉は遅れてきたけどうんと綺麗でした。
On the way to dropping a guest off at Togura Station, we stopped at the Tengu park on the hill above the station. The Tengu (=goblin) statue is supposedly the tallest in the country. Our daughter Misaki sure was impressed by the size. The leaves on all of the cherry trees in the park had already fallen. It feels like winter is just around the corner. The fall colors seemed to take their time in coming this year, but they sure were beautiful!

信州戸倉上山田温泉の亀清旅館のHPはこちらClick here for the website of Kamesei Ryokan in Nagano

千曲市の観光協会と戸倉上山田温泉の名人物、村越さん、の提供で今日は千曲川でポールウォーキングのイベントが行いました。普通のウォーキングと違って、上半身も使いますのでかなりいい運動になります。私も参加しましたのでファンになりました。

Chikuma City's Tourism Bureau in colloboration with Togura Kamiyamada Onsen's jack-of-all-trades Murakoshi-san, put on a Nordic Pole Walking demonstration today. Myself and other innkeepers got to participate. We tried out the poles while walking along the banks of the Chikuma River. Compared with normal walking, it gives you quite a good upper body workout. I'm hooked!

ポールウォーキングの問い合わせは観光協会へFor inquiries, contact the Travel Bureau.

信州戸倉上山田温泉の亀清旅館のHPはこちらClick here for the website of Kamesei Ryokan in Nagano