Top 10 Hiking & Camping Tours in Nagano Prefecture, Chubu

We offer hiking / biking(cycling) guide service in English and Japanese. We live here in Matumoto and Azumino area, enjoy with travelers from inside and outside Japan playing around the field where we love!

Experience physically rewarding and culturally rich multi-day guided hikes in Japan set in unique locations with stunning scenery that is remote and rare. We blend culture and exceptional wild places, coupled with the most exhilarating non-technical hiking in all Japan.

The Kiso Ontake Health Lab conducts a number of tour programs that "stay," "exercise such as walking," and "become healthy both physically and mentally" by taking advantage of the valuable natural environment and local resources of the altitude 1000m to 1500m and Kaida Kogen. Masu! Healthy walks walking with Kiso horses, lodging-type wild vegetable mushroom walks, cycling and forest road mountain biking, snowshoe (winter), bouldering, and "Lab Forest" provide many activities such as walking, hammock, archery and rope crossing, and climbing trees doing. There is an office near National Highway 361 near Kaida Kogen “Kisouma no Sato”. Please feel free to drop in.

Shinano Discovery is located in north Nagano area, one of the most snowy area in Japan. We offer special tours such as satoyama cycling, hiking, Togakushi pilgrimage walking and snowshoeing tour. The guide is a national licensed translator as well as a licensed hiking guide. We will take you to the special places where never on any guidebooks! Let ’s explore the hidden gem of Japan together!

Spring, summer and autumn, you can enjoy a daily guided tour throughout the year. The “60-minute Nature Guide”, a guide full of live information, will guide you around the attractions of Kappabashi four times a day in 60 minutes. In addition, the “Early Morning Guide Walk” where birds sing and the power spots “Myojinike Nature Trail” and “Night Walk” surrounded by the primeval forest are also available depending on the season. The professional guides will explain the natural attractions such as plants, wild birds, mountains and history of each course.

Shiga Kogen Guide Association was established in 2003 to convey the nature and history of Shiga Kogen to everyone in an easy-to-understand manner. In addition to holding trekking tours during the green season and snowshoe tours during the snowy season for visitors to Shiga Kogen, we are also focusing on course development and environmental conservation so that you can enjoy trekking safely and happily. For those who want to enjoy Shiga Kogen's nature more seriously and personally, a dedicated guide is also dispatched according to customer requests. Shiga Kogen has a lot of courses, but why don't you visit a guide with specialized knowledge and discover the new nature of Shiga Kogen?

We are an international snowschool based on Honshu Island, Japan. We are highly qualified and experienced instructors. We teach and guide on skis & snowboard, from first timers to expert level. We operate all over Japan but focus on the Nagano and Niigata prefecture. We believe in a personal approach and provide private instructors & guides for small groups. Let's meet in the Japanese powder snow!

Great experience in the Nature of Nagano prefecture in Japan! There are plenty of attraction in every season.

We specialize in active and culturally immersive small group and private tours to the other, wilder side of Japan. Leave the crowds behind and join us for a one-of-a-kind hiking, biking, trail running, seasonal or cultural adventure in Nagano and beyond. My name is Paul and I am a permanent, long-term resident of Japan living in a 138-year-old home with my family in a small, mountainous village in northern Nagano. I'd love to introduce you to the local areas and people I know and love!