Nige & June Fun Times » Suwako https://nigejune.com Nige & June's Vlog about Japan and around the world Thu, 04 Jun 2015 22:28:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Matsumoto Castle & Shirakabako Suwako https://nigejune.com/matsumoto-shirakabako-suwako/ https://nigejune.com/matsumoto-shirakabako-suwako/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2015 09:31:55 +0000 https://nigejune.com/?p=1633 Nige & June come down to centre part of Nagano prefecture. They visit the castle and lakes of Matsumoto Shirakabako Suwako. Matsumoto is a famous castle in the Nagano region and the lakes of Shirakaba and Suwa ice over during winter. We passed around Shirakaba-ko or Shirakaba lake, which is still frozen and white. It was […]

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]]> Nige & June come down to centre part of Nagano prefecture.

They visit the castle and lakes of Matsumoto Shirakabako Suwako. Matsumoto is a famous castle in the Nagano region and the lakes of Shirakaba and Suwa ice over during winter.

We passed around Shirakaba-ko or Shirakaba lake, which is still frozen and white. It was very beautiful.

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Then we went near Suwa-ko or Suwa lake. We could see Suwa lake from higher point of express way. Also we could see ‘Yatsugatake’, 8 mountains in a row.

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Then we went to today’s main landmark, Matsumoto castle. Matsumoto castle is one of the three Japanese treasure castle (Other two are Hikone & Himeji castle).

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View of Matsumoto castle was magnificent!

 

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