Qué hay en Nagano, Japón, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts, Snow monkeys in the hot spring

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts (10 Dic – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Snow monkeys in the hot spring (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts, Snow monkeys in the hot spring

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts (10 Dic – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Snow monkeys in the hot spring (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts, Snow monkeys in the hot spring

En marzo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts (10 Dic – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Snow monkeys in the hot spring (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Golden Week, Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts

• Naturaleza

  Cherry blossom

  5–25 Abr · normalmente

  Nagano sits high enough that the blossom lands a fortnight after Tokyo is done, which makes it a useful second chance. Zenkoji's approach and Joyama park are where the city goes.

• Festivo

  Golden Week

  29 Abr – 5 MayMucha genteReserva pronto

  The alpine roads reopen around now and the whole country drives them. Zenkoji, the Togakushi shrines and the road over to Kamikochi all move at a crawl. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts (10 Dic – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Golden Week, Golden Week en Japón

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Golden Week (29 Abr – 5 May)

Concurrido — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus mejores meses por clima

En junio no empieza nada nuevo.

Concurrido — Summer break (natsuyasumi) en Japón, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Máxima afluencia — Nagano Binzuru festival, Lake Suwa fireworks

• Festival

  Nagano Binzuru festival

  1–7 Ago · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  On the first Saturday of August up to two hundred dance teams clack wooden rice paddles down Chuo-dori towards Zenko-ji, with food stalls along the route into the night. Free to watch, and one of the city's big summer nights. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Lake Suwa fireworks

  15 AgoLuces y fuegoMucha genteReserva pronto

  On 15 August tens of thousands of fireworks go up over Lake Suwa, about an hour and a half south by train, watched by crowds in the hundreds of thousands. Expect packed trains back. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Naturaleza

  Apple, grape and chestnut harvest

  1 Sep – 15 Nov · normalmente

  The orchards around the city open for picking from September, with grapes first and apples through autumn, while Obuse, twenty minutes away, sells its chestnut sweets fresh from mid-September. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Autumn colour, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Naturaleza

  Autumn colour

  5 Oct – 10 Nov · normalmenteMucha gente

  Colour starts on the Shiga Kogen plateau in early October and works down to Zenkoji and the Togakushi cedars a month later. Weekend traffic on the mountain roads is the catch.

Sigue en marcha: Apple, grape and chestnut harvest (1 Sep – 15 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Autumn colour

En noviembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Apple, grape and chestnut harvest (1 Sep – 15 Nov (normalmente)), Autumn colour (5 Oct – 10 Nov (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts, Snow monkeys in the hot spring

• Temporada

  Hakuba and Shiga Kogen lifts

  10 Dic – 10 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de esquíMucha genteReserva pronto

  Nagano city is the train station the ski traffic passes through, and from December the buses west to Hakuba and east to Shiga Kogen run full. The high resorts hold on into April.

• Naturaleza

  Snow monkeys in the hot spring

  15 Dic – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de faunaMucha gente

  The macaques at Jigokudani sit in the pool all year, but the winter version with snow on their heads is the one people come for. The last stretch is a walk up a forest path, icy in season. Fuente ↗