Oct 5, 2016 - 1 min read

Exploring Nagatoro

Prepare to be charmed by this small tourist town

By Cathy Cawood

Community writer

Nagatoro Station

I love small town stations

Udon restaurant

Inside udon restaurant

Ripening chestnuts

Some very fine red pines grew along the street to Hodo

Manhole cover showing a boat riding the rapids of the Arakawa River

Surprisingly cute statues in this shrine

Inviting, woodsy style

An amazing toy museum

Cobbled street near Iwadatami

Nagatoro is famous for shaved ice sweets made with natural ice

One of many swallow nests under the eaves

Looking into a restaurant courtyard

Early sunlight on a stone wall

Decorations for Tanabata outside the cable car station

Only about two hours from Tokyo is a pretty little tourist town named Nagatoro. While there are many things to do in Nagatoro including exploring Iwadatami, shooting rapids on the Arakawa River, visiting Hodosan Shrine and taking the cable car to the top of Mount Hodo, just wandering around the old-fashioned streets makes for a very pleasant past-time.

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