Karuizawa, do you know? This is one of the scenic spots in Japan and is known as a world-class town for cultural tourism. There is the beauty and integration of modernity and nature, both leisure and entertainment places and beautiful natural scenery, if you want to know more.
Then, let Bian Xiao introduce this world-class Japanese cultural tourism town, Karuizawa!
Where is karuizawa in Japan?
Karuizawa is located in the southeast of Nagano Prefecture and the northwest of Tokyo. Located on the plateau about 1000 meters above sea level, it is surrounded by peaks such as Asajian Mountain, Biqu Mountain and Qibingling Mountain, and larch and birch trees are flourishing. Throughout the year, mist permeates the mountains all the year round, and the whole town is like a fairyland.
Introduction of karuizawa tourism in Japan
Old karuizawa
The most prosperous and historic area in karuizawa.
It is surrounded by Lisan Avenue and Ginza Street. Quiet and amazing forest ponds, western-style historical buildings and bustling shopping streets create a retro and nostalgic atmosphere.
Tourists gradually walk into the forest of fallen leaves and pine needles along Lisan Avenue, watch church weddings and feel romantic, visit Meiji villas, follow the footsteps of celebrities, mountain trails and gurgling streams, as if they were in medieval Europe.
Ginza Street connects the old and new karuizawa, and assumes the function of a transit station for tourists to rest. This is a European-style brick road, about 600 meters long, which retains a large number of western-style buildings in Meiji and Showa periods. Restaurants, cafes, boutique houses, popular goods stores, local products stores and grocery stores stand on both sides.
There are usually many activities: fairs, art festivals, fireworks shows, etc. , deeply loved by local residents and tourists.
Today, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan met in Karuizawa, where they met their lifelong partners. Located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, it is150km northwest of downtown Tokyo. Known as "the back garden of Tokyo", it is a good place for a weekend holiday.
Emperor Akihito met his future partner Michiko at the annual tennis tournament in Karuizawa. In the picturesque scenery, they fell in love at first sight and staged a Japanese Cinderella story.
John Lennon, the soul of the Beatles, took his wife and family here for a holiday almost every summer from the dissolution of the Beatles to the death of 1980.
"Lennon and I both like cycling around here. It's a good time." Yoko Ono Lennon, who was born into a noble family in Tokyo, talked about the love track of Karuizawa many years ago, but it is still hard to hide the sweetness. Junichi Watanabe, a famous writer, often strolled here when he was writing the novel Paradise Lost.
As early as the Edo period, Karuizawa was just a post station on Zhongshan Road, providing a rest place for travelers crossing Chibiling in the east. Today, he is synonymous with "the world's top resort" and an advocate of "nature, Lohas and culture" lifestyle all over the world.
The Japanese royal family and world celebrities are his fans.
Ginza Street in old Karuizawa is full of restaurants, cafes, boutique houses, popular goods stores and various local products stores.
John Lennon of The Beatles spends a long holiday here with his beloved wife Yoko Ono Lennon every year. There is also his favorite bakery in this small street. In the peak season, almost all shops need to wait in line.
Walking around slowly will find many interesting things. Exquisite handmade pen ink box, unique vase, exquisite gift made by karuizawa.
When the whole town came down, I found that there were the most small shops selling honey. No store has not only honey, but also derivatives made of honey, such as honey, lipstick and so on. This honey shop is the most famous, with several big posters at the door.
Homemade jam in the town also has a unique style. There are dozens of flavors such as strawberries, blueberries and grapes. Packaging is divided into large, medium and small, and there are also combined gift boxes. You can buy some as gifts for your friends and family.
Walking into a chopstick shop, you can really appreciate the exquisiteness of the Japanese. A pair of chopsticks are displayed in front of you, and you come into view. From material selection to polishing lettering, every step has gone through meticulous work, reflecting the ingenuity of Japan.
In fact, what shocked me most in the chopsticks shop were these small ornaments (which should all be brackets for putting chopsticks). Each one is very small, but just pick up an observation and it is so delicate that you can't see any flaws.
There are also some small shops telling historical stories in Ginza Street. Today, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan met in Karuizawa, where they met their lifelong partners.
There are many black-and-white and even yellowed photos in karuizawa photo studio, which take people back to the last century or even earlier. The photos of Japanese emperors and empresses are particularly eye-catching.
In Japan, a country that advocates cooking and enjoys delicious food everywhere, small-town gourmet snacks are also indispensable. In addition to ordering food, cheese shops, steamed stuffed bun shops, matcha shops and fruit shops are also handy.
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Mitsui Zexin
He is the administrative center of the town and the cultural and artistic center of the local residents. In a short light well, there are many art galleries, museums and concert halls on Zeben Street.
Although the architectural style of these public facilities is modern, they are not contradictory to the local natural features, and their designs are novel and unique. Each museum has its own bright spots. Regular monthly performances and exhibitions also attract Tokyo citizens. ?
In addition, there are a large number of villas and many modern hotels built later in this area, which is a conference and tourist destination in Japan.
Karuizawa Yamato Concert Hall
Located in Yazaki Park, it is designed into a regular pentagonal appearance according to the highest sound quality standards in the world, and stands by the river.
Zhuze Qianzhubo Art Museum
All-natural lighting space aims to be integrated with the surrounding natural landscape, so that the surrounding natural landscape becomes the background for the exhibition of works. The whole exhibition hall is built according to the terrain, with a slight inclination. Give visitors a wonderful experience like looking at paintings in the forest.
Zhongchuan district-romantic luxury hot spring resort
Shinkansen also has a station in Nakatsugawa. So Nakatsugawa can be regarded as the sub-center of the town. Apart from the four hot springs and Japan's famous national wild bird forest, there are no other special tourism resources in this area, and there are naturally fewer tourists than the town center.
In 2005, on the basis of the original Xingye Hot Spring Hotel, Xingye Group re-planned the Xingyue Resort with more than 40,000 square meters, positioned it as a hot spring resort in the valley, and opened the first high-end hotel in Hongxi Noah. Since then, due to the brand effect of Hongxi Noah, this area has been known by more people.
Hoshino has free shuttle buses at two Shinkansen stations to accept more tourists with an open attitude. All public facilities are open to all tourists, except the Hongsinoya Hotel, which is a closed area. This practice not only brings convenience to hot spring tourists and bird watchers, but also brings popularity to the resort.
Create a wedding brand, Xingyue Jiayuan, and build a romantic, high-end and luxurious forest wedding based on blestioncourt Hotel, Plateau Church and Stone Church. It has made many newcomers in Japan flock to it.
Yushu Street Town was built at the entrance of the resort, which introduced shopping and catering formats and enriched the travel experience of day-trip tourists.
According to the characteristics of winter climate in Karuizawa, a limited skating rink in winter was designed, which added a winter activity for tourists and hotel guests.
Hongqingjing Ze
Hongxi Noah not only made Guangjingze area popular, but also a famous brand of Guangjingze, creating a natural, harmonious and romantic holiday concept and attracting high-end holiday guests at home and abroad. Next, let's take a look at how the facilities of the resort are designed.
No matter the layout, landscape or service, the hotel is the ultimate luxury of a harmonious holiday. Seventy-seven holiday homes, including 22 villas with courtyards, are dotted with Japanese-style villages along the gurgling Tang Chuan River. Birds and the sound of running water are endless, just like living in seclusion in the countryside. The hotel covers an area of more than 10 times that of all villas.
Hong's definition is to show the real Japan and attach importance to the birth of local traditions and nature. The planning principle of all hotels is to perfectly integrate hotel buildings with the local environment.
So we can see that there is a height of 30 meters in the position of Mitsui Zehong Wild Duck. Under the condition of protecting the original landscape, all holiday houses are built according to the terrain, embracing nature with an open attitude, or hiding in the forest or near the waterfront cabin in Tangchuan.
All holiday houses are harmonious buildings, with three-dimensional appearance of earth wall style, black wooden board structure, and a Zen mood.
Each holiday home has a terrace, creating an effect that extends into the natural environment. Moreover, each room is independent and has good privacy.
The living room is designed indoors, connecting the balcony and the bedroom. This area not only allows guests to use the hotel room as a bedroom, but also provides guests with the possibility of staying in the room for a day. Reading, making tea, chatting or just staring blankly, isn't that how real holidays kill time?
Whether the landscape design of the hotel is Hoshino Imperial Design or Hasegawa, he has long realized that any landscape design needs to be integrated with the natural environment. Therefore, in the Mitsui project, his first consideration is how to keep the valleys, rivers and large ancient trees intact. Especially the towering trees, which have a history of a hundred years, Yukawa flows down from the shallow mountain. Trees and rivers naturally surround the valley, and paths are distributed in the valley.
Inspired by nature, he used these landscape elements in his design. Bridge, running water, tree path, grass path. Surrounded by trees and green grass, each holiday house has a small view and a community style as a whole.
With the help of falling water, through the combination of arc water system, planting belt and point plants, a rich sense of hierarchy is created, showing a terraced stream waterfall.
The effect of falling water flow. The landscape wooden bridge connects the villages on both sides of the stream.
Mitsui Zehong Xi Noya is 365 days a year. Every night, the staff will paddle a boat to light a lamp on the water. The night was brightly lit and became the signboard of the hotel.
When the designer first designed the lighting scheme, the purpose was to create a relaxed holiday environment. The valley is dark and quiet, and the brightness can't affect the line of sight. Finally, the designer achieves the balance between man and nature by reducing unnecessary light and combining light and shade.
Finally, the scene presented to the guests is that after sunset, the twilight of the lights blends with the twilight, and the resort is completely another gesture. In the middle of the night, under the bright moonlight and starlight, the lights will further change and blend with the darkness, giving guests a comfortable and relaxing experience.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the whole hotel area uses geothermal resources for power supply, and the self-sufficiency rate is as high as 80%, which truly reaches the realm of "symbiosis with nature".
Yu Shujie townlet
Located in the entrance area of Xingye Resort, it is a shopping street consisting of nine simple wooden buildings, with more than ten shops and restaurants with their own characteristics.
Yushu Street Town is a leisure lifestyle, where hotel guests and ordinary tourists can sit on the steps. Shopping is not the main purpose, but chatting with family and friends and having a good time together is the meaning of vacation.
Circular skating rink
The promenade is designed with one end leading to the wild bird forest and the other end connected to the entrance of Xingye Resort, surrounded by a pond. In summer, there are wild ducks in the pond, and in winter, it becomes a natural skating rink. The rest area is surrounded by the pond. Visitors can stroll along the promenade or have a rest in the rest area.
Xingye hot spring
Xingye Hot Spring is divided into two parts, one is "dragonfly soup" which is open to the public, and the other is a public hot spring which is only open to guests in the hotel. In addition, some rooms are equipped with hot springs.
The "Dragonfly Soup" excavated during the Taisho period has always attracted tourists to experience it with its wonderful muscle function.
The hot spring in the hotel is called meditation hot spring, which uses the concept of light and darkness to create a meditation space.
Plateau church
Xingye wedding brand Xingye Mengyuan customized wedding venue. The huge triangular roof and simple and elegant wooden buildings are full of warm and romantic atmosphere.
Bell Si Tong Courtyard Hotel
The personalized hotel in Hoshino, which forms a wedding package with Plateau Church, is the best choice for many newcomers in Japan. The room adopts European villa style combined with forest design, and the price is much more intimate than that of Hongxi Noah next door.
Therefore, in addition to newcomers, tourists who want to experience a night in Xingye Resort but consider the cost are also hotel customers.
Shitou church
The stone church is a fine architectural product, which integrates the five basic elements of nature, such as stone, light, water, green and tree, into the design, and embodies the design concept of "natural church". The whole church is made of stone and glass, which expresses the beautiful meaning of yin and yang blending.
The church is curved and looks like a fairy tale scene, attracting people to take a closer look.
The interior of the church is also full of imagination and charm. In order to let the sunlight shine into the church, the designer accurately calculated the orbit of the sun, so that the sunlight injected through the glass not only illuminates the whole church, but also emits different light according to the time.
Villager canteen
Next to Hoshino Hot Springs, there is a large floor-to-ceiling glass room. It is the most family-like restaurant in the whole Hoshino Resort, and it also changes the taste of hotel guests.
When you come to Japan, if you want to see Japanese culture, you must come here. You want to appreciate the beauty of Japan, you must come here. If you like Japanese hot springs and food culture, you must come here. It is always full of things you want to do in Japan.