Shiga Kogen is a highland resort just 2 hours and 30 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen bullet train. If you are tired of the sweltering heat and humidity of the Japanese summer, escape to Shiga Kogen! How about take two days holiday and travel in Shiga Kogen?
How to access from Nagano to Shiga Kogen：
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/topics/summer-bus.html
🏔️ 2 days travel plan 🏔️
Day1
8:41 Tokyo station → 10:15 Nagano station by Shinkansen 🚄
10:30 Nagano station East exit bus stop no.23 → Shiga Kogen by Nagaden Express bus 🚌
🚶 Hiking 🚶
Ex 1) Nature Discovery Trail 🚌Bus stop : Hasuike Hiroba at 11:34
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking/trekking_course10.html
Ex 2) Sunshine & Mizunashi-ike Walk 🚌Bus stop : Hasuike Hiroba at 11:34
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking/trekking_course02.html
Ex 3) For flower lovers : Golden Line & Higashitateyama Alpine Plants Garden
🚌Bus stop : Shigakogen Yamanoeki at 11:37
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking/trekking_course19.html
and more
Trail List : https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking.html
👉 With the Shiga Kogen Official Guide, you can learn more about the charms of Shiga Kogen.
🌻 Shiga Kogen Guide Association 🌿
https://shizenhogo-center.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/guide_summer/
Shiga Kogen Guide Association offers various tours from tailor-made private tours to group tours, to suit your fitness level and objectives.
🌟 Exclusive tours 🌟
https://shizenhogo-center.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/activity/
18:00 Check-in at Hotel
Enjoy dinner and onsen, beautiful stars 🌌
🎆 Option : Firefly watching
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/topics/green-season-activity-firefly-watching.html
Day2
🏄 For outdoor activity lovers 🏄
Shiga Kogen Mountain Discovery offers SUP, canyoning and more activities :
https://www.shigakogen-md.com/
*Reservations required
🥾 Hiking 🥾
Recommended trails :
Most iconic trail in Shiga Kogen 【Ikemeguri Trail】
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking/trekking_course08.html
Photo article
https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/topics/ikemeguri-trail.html
🏔️ And more trails : https://www.shigakogen.gr.jp/english/green/trekking.html
↓ On the way to Nagano
🚌 Bus stop : Snow Monkey Park
🐒 Snow Monkey Park 🐒
https://www.snowmonkeyresorts.com/smr/snowmonkeypark/
↓
🚌 Bus stop : Kutsuno
🍶 Sake & Craft beer brewery Tamamura Honten 🍺
https://www.tamamura-honten.co.jp/
↓
🚌 Bus stop : Shibu Wagobashi
🍦 Shibu Onsen promenade 🍘
♨️ Onsen adress ♨️
🍁Kaede no yu
Just front of Yudanaka station. There is an open-air foot bath too.
Entrance fee : Adult ￥300 Child ￥150
Shibu onsen Oyu
*Please pay and get the key at Shibu onsen visitor center
Wakuwaku onsen
https://miyama-wakuwaku.com/eng-miyama/
17:51 Yudanaka station → 18:44 Nagano by Nagaden train
🌞 Enjoy your summer in SHIGA KOGEN 🏔️