Shiotsubo Onsen was discovered over 800 years ago, and will keep you warm fully with the refreshing touch. This is lesser known but great hot spring which contains healing effects on muscle pain, recovery from fatigue, and beautiful skin.

Karuizawa is the only town in the world to have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympic events. Karuizawa hosted equestrian events in the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as curling in the Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics.

Nakasendo trail is the old route connecting the Sanjo Ohashi Bridge in Kyoto to Nihonbashi in Edo (Tokyo) during the Edo Period, it was an important route with many people commercially and politically at that time. Along the pass, an inn called “Honjin” where the highest-ranking official travelers stayed was established, bringing a post town developed featuring lodging for all kinds of travelers.In Karuizawa, there remains three post towns called “Karuizawa-shuku”, “Kutsukake-shuku” and “Oiwake-juku”.

The Karuizawa Wakaba Festival is held in the fresh green season from late April to early June. It features various events such as sports events, for example, a half marathon, cycling, tennis, golf, and a chance to try horseback riding, as well as bird watching, mountain stream fishing, walking, hiking and classic car racing, to name some.

Craft beer is popular in Karuizawa. The beer market in Japan is dominated by major beer producers and the proportion of local beer and craft beer is only about 1%. However, in Karuizawa, craft beer has a market share of nearly 30%, and it is not too much to say that Karuizawa is very much a craft beer town.

In Karuizawa, destination weddings and photo weddings are popular surrounded by its beautiful nature and good environment. The number of weddings is increasing year by year, thanks to the easy access for traffic, taking only one hour from the center of Tokyo.

Karuizawa’s rich nature attracts a lot of wild birds. You can gaze upon about 80 kinds of wild birds year round in “Karuizawa National Wild Bird Sanctuary Forest”. Spring and summer are peak times, when you can observe many wild birds. The sounds of birds singing in the early morning of this season are just […]

Karuizawa has many flat roads, and there’s no better way to get around than by bicycle. Rent a bicycle in front of Karuizawa station and let’s go! First, off to “Kumoba Pond” which is known as Swan Lake. It offers various landscapes which change with the seasons. You can park your bicycle at the parking […]

Jam is a must ingredient for Westerners as it is eaten every day with bread or meat. Karuizawa is home to jam similar to the ones made in western countries, so you can see many jam shops scattered around the town, offering many flavours of jams which taste very fresh and pure. It has been […]

Karuizawa offers many places where you can enjoy winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding. Lately, curling, known as “chess on ice,” is getting popular. Curling may already be a popular sport among western countries, while Japan’s national curling team’s active part in the Winter Olympics held in Pyeong Chang in 2018, has made very trendy in Karuizawa now.