Nishiwaga Town Katakuri native habitat

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.

Sawauchi Natural Bracken Garden

A vast bracken garden spreads out at the foot of Mt. Wagadake. You can harvest Nishiwarabi, a specialty of the town, with your own hands. Since you will be harvesting in nature, please bring work gloves and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty. The harvest season is usually from late May to the end of June. The opening schedule is subject to change depending on the snow melting situation. Please check before going out. This is a vast bracken garden that spreads out at the foot of Mt. Wagadake.

The left grass, the dwarf colony.

On the way to Higusa Onsen ``Fureai Yuseikan'', there is a colony of Zazensou.