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This category contains landmarks, locations, events, sports teams, and anything else which might attract visitors (whether tourist or otherwise) to Nagano Prefecture, Japan Wikimedia Commons has media related to Visitor attractions in Nagano prefecture .
Nagano (長野市, Nagano-shi, pronounced [naganoꜜ ɕi] [2]) is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, located in the Nagano Basin (Zenkoji Daira) in the central Chūbu region of Japan. Nagano is categorized as a core city of Japan. Nagano City is the highest prefectural capital in Japan, with an altitude of 371.4 meters (1,219 ft ...
Nagano, Chikuma Jōmon period kofun; designation includes Mori-Shōgunzuka Kofun ( 森将軍塚古墳 ) , Ariakeyama-Shōgunzuka Kofun ( 有明山将軍塚古墳 ) , Kurashina-Shōgunzuka Kofun ( 倉科将軍塚古墳 ) , and Doguchi-Shōgunzuka Kofun ( 土口将軍塚古墳 )
Nagano Winter Olympics '98, known in Japan as Hyper Olympics in Nagano (ハイパーオリンピック イン ナガノ, Haipā Orinpikku in Nagano), is a multi-event sports game from Konami. It is based on the 1998 Winter Olympics and features 10 Olympic events including skating, skiing, luge, bobsleigh, slalom, curling, halfpipe and snowboarding.
The castle's name was changed from Kaizu Castle to Matsushiro Castle by Sanada Yukimichi, the third generation of Sanada daimyō in 1711. [3] The castle burned down in 1717, but was restored in 1718, partly through the donation of 10,000 ryō for its reconstruction by the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1742, the castle was severely damaged by a flood ...
Obuse (小布施町, Obuse-machi) is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019 [update] , the town had an estimated population of 10,999 in 3832 households, [ 1 ] and a population density of 580 persons per km 2 .
The following June at the IOC session in Birmingham, England, Nagano was awarded the 1998 Games in the fifth round, defeating Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States by four votes. [16] Karuizawa, near Nagano, played host to the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in 1963 and the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in 1986.
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (長野県信濃美術館, Nagano-ken Shinano Bijutsukan) opened as Shinano Art Museum in Jōyama Park (城山公園), Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1966, becoming a prefectural museum three years later.