REPORT

Today I spoke with a guest who stayed overnight at Tsugaike Sanso last night who told me, “The rain stopped around dawn, so I went up to the Hakuba Oike alpine pond early this morning. The wind was strong enough to form ripples on the pond’s surface, but the sky was so clear that the heavy rain of last night seemed like a forgotten memory, and the views were absolutely fantastic.” When I began walking around the Tsugaike Nature Park at 9:00am, the bluen sky was still spreading in all directions.
[Tsugaike Nature Park・Watasuge Marsh]

Purple hiogi ayame (beachhead irises) were beginning to bloom in the Mizubasho Marsh along with nikkokisuge day lillies in the Watasuge and Ukishima marshlands. I had a chat with a woman strolling through the Ukishima Marsh with her camera in hand who commented, “I came here to take pictures of kobaiikeso (veratrum stamineum) and the mountains, but it turns out that there are not many kobaiikeso this year. There is however, a lot of watasuge (cottongrass, pictured), and they are beautiful!”
[Tsugaike Nature Park・Ukishima Marsh]

On the forested path running between and connecting the marshes, I found a lot of gozen tachibana (creeping dogwood), mitsuba oren (threeleaf goldthread), maizuruso (false lily of the valley), and nogo ichigo (fragaria iinumae, a variety of wild strawberry) in bloom. On the Yase-one Ridge, gunnai-furo (pictured) were swaying pleasantly in the cool breeze rising up from the valley to the south.
[Tsugaike Nature Park・Yase-one Ridge]

In other news, early morning operation of the gondola and ropeway will begin on 7/15 (Sat.), with the gondolas starting at 7:00 a.m. and the ropeway (pictured) at 7:30 a.m. Hakuba Tsugaike WOW! will also open daily from 7/14 (Fri.) to 8/31 (Thu.). In addition, the “Amidas” attraction will re-open on 7/15 (Sat.), and the new “buggy cruise” will begin as well. (* “Pochadas” will open sometime in mid-July, as soon as the temperature of the water rises sufficiently.)
[Tsugaike Ropeway]

* “MIKKETA” will also start at Tsugaike Nature Park on Saturday, July 15!

　
[Tsugaike Nature Park Opening Information]
＊Business Period … 6/3 (Sat.) 6/4（San.）to 10/22/2023 (Sun.)
＊Business Hours … Tsugaike Ropeway 8:00－16:40
＊Fees … Round trip use of the Panorama Way (gondola & ropeway) + Nature Park entrance / Adults JPY3,700, Children JPY2,100 → Adult Advance Discount Tickets JPY3,300, Children JPY1,850! (Advance Discount Tickets are usable as-is! Proceed directly to the gondola for immediate boarding.)

[Hakuba Tsugaike WOW! Opening Information]
＊Business Period … 6/10 (Sat.) to 10/22/2023 (Sun.)
＊Business Hours …9:00－16:00 (Last entrance 15:00, open daily during August, irregular schedule during September)
＊Fees … Amidasu (60 min.) JPY1,600 / Tobidasu (One Time) JPY1,000 / Fumidasu (One Time) JPY800 / Kabedasu (One Time) JPY500 / Kogidasu (One Time) JPY2,000 / Pochadas (90 min.) JPY2,800 Children JPY2,500 / Tent sauna (90 min.) JPY1,200

[TSUGAIKE Outdoor Village]
＊Business Period … 6/10 (Sat.)－10/22/2023(Sun.)
＊Facilities … GLAMPING FIELD TSUGAIKE, LANTERN CAMPING FIELD TSUGAIKE, Hakuba Tsugaike WOW!, Tsugaike Ropeway, Dog Run, Tsugaike Golf Center

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*Tsugaike Nature Park & WOW! will be reported 1－2 times a week

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reported by Snownavi