Floating island in Yukawa-numa (prefecture-designated natural monument)

Plateau Fureai Farm Direct House

Nishiwarabiya, a specialty of Nishiwaga Town, and seasonal vegetables. We have a wide selection of handmade sweets. (Closed in winter)

Hekishoji Museum

Located within the precincts of Hekishoji Temple, which has a history of 350 years, more than 10,000 items including ethnic materials are on display. Sawauchi is said to be a village founded by Matagi, and has its own customs and beliefs. The museum exhibits valuable items such as tools used during the snowy season, which can be said to be the fruit of the wisdom of people who have lived a strong life in the harsh environment. Matagi Storage, dugout canoe (nationally designated important tangible ethnic cultural property), Snow Country Living Tools Museum

Nishiwaga Town History and Folklore Museum

The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits archaeological materials, documents, and folklore materials, including items excavated from the Odaino Ruins, one of Japan's oldest and largest Paleolithic (18,500 years old) residential ruins. Materials that characterize the town, which has long prospered as a mining town and hot spring town, are also on display.