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Matsumoto Slideshow
Top Hotels in Matsumoto
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Buena Vista Hotel Matsumoto
47 reviews -
Matsumoto Tokyu Inn
33 reviews
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Toko City Hotel Matsumoto
33 reviews
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Matsumoto Hotel Kagetsu
31 reviews
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Nishiki-no-Yu Jimotoya Matsumoto
1 review -
Shirafune Grand Hotel Matsumoto
15 reviews
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Matsumoto Green Hotel
7 reviews
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Hotel Harmonie Bien Matsumoto
18 reviews -
Hotel Iidaya Matsumoto
10 reviews
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Super Hotel Matsumotoekimae
10 reviews
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Ace Inn Matsumoto
13 reviews
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Toyoko Inn Matsumoto-ekimae Honcho
35 reviews
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Super Hotel Matsumotoeki Higashiguchi-minami
19 reviews
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Hotel Izutsu Matsumoto
3 reviews -
Smile Hotel Matsumoto
13 reviews
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Taishoike Hotel Matsumoto
5 reviews
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Hotel Omoto Matsumoto
8 reviews
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Hotel Ikkyu Matsumoto
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Hotel New Station Matsumoto
9 reviews
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Hotel Route Inn Court Matsumoto Inter
5 reviews -
Matsumoto Tourist Hotel
19 reviews
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Hotel 1-2-3 Yorozuya Matsumoto
8 reviews
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Matsumoto Wellton Hotel
11 reviews
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New Hotel Wakaba Matsumoto
1 review
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Richmond Hotel Matsumoto
87 reviews
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Dormy Inn Matsumoto
56 reviews
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Matsumoto City Hotel
1 review
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Hotel New Kotobuki Matsumoto
2 reviews
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Hotel Ikedaya Matsumoto
4 reviews
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Gosenjaku Hotel Matsumoto
4 reviews
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Kamikochi Inperial Hotel Matsumoto
29 reviews
Matsumoto
Travel Blogs from Matsumoto, Japan
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Summer Vacation and Stuff
This is a top pick! ... to see a bit of central Japan for 6 days. The trip took us to Magome (old fashioned town), Tsumago (old fashioned town), Matsumoto (cool castle), Komaga-take (mountain), Niigata (port), Sadoga-shima (island), and Tokyo (big city!). Along the way we rode ...
Nippon at its best
This is a top pick! ... I have also now got an addition for the tea here..which comes straight out vensing machines hot!!! I also got caught on my first traffic jam on the way back to Matsumoto, I havent sen one yet!!! The manic siteseeing continues tomorrow in ...
Mountain Fortress
This is a top pick! Refreshed after the previuos nights bathing experience, another crack of dawn start to drop my bag in the station locker and a 30 min walk to the castle in Matasumoto. A lot smaller than Himeji-Jo and less impressive, the best thing about the castle ...
Theoretisch in den japanischen Alpen
... die Wege, am Bahnhof von Matsumoto traf ich eine Krankenschwester und Karateka aus Süddeutschland. Sie war drei Wochen in Japan unterwegs; nach Matsumoto führte sie ein Tagesausflug zur Burg. Wir kamen ins Gespräch, auch ich wollte die Burg ...
Black castle of the crows in the Japan Alps
... towns along the former mountain road between Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo). In keeping with the attractions of the Japan Alps, today we spent the day in Matsumoto, the second largest city in Nagano prefecture. Matsumoto sits smack in the middle of Nagano, in a ...
Matsumoto
Spent a night here, visited the castle, amazing sight! Saw at both day and night. Hostel was very nice, free station pickup, free cycle hire. Biking around the city, great fun! Visited an onsen late evening, nothing special, water stank of ...
Hot springs, tea tricks and another year older...
... school there. This was a total bummer considering she was one of the few Japanese people that I'd made friends with here in Matsumoto. Isn't that just like life? The next day I had made plans to visit the local hot spring town Northwest of ...
Matsumoto
More mountains! We liked the last one so much we headed for the "Japanese Alps". We based ourselves in Matsumoto, and did seperate trips in the National Park. The autumn leaves that Japan is famous for lived up to their reputation. The highest peak we ...
The first week in Matsumoto
... for sure, but I'm just trying to smile and remember that I'm going to be able to see a lot of great places while I'm here in Japan. I've learned a little bit of Japanese, but it's slow going and I don't expect to pick up too much in the year that ...
Yarigatake in the Rain
... Shinshimashima - and the train we've just arrived on hasn't come from Glasgow or Crianlarich, but from the city of Matsumoto in central Japan. Also, the bus company employee is giving us a short briefing (in English as well as Japanese) on the next ...
Onward to Matsumoto
... is located. And then she said goodbye and told me to be at work around 10:30 Tuesday morning. I have tomorrow to explore Matsumoto, find the grocery store, as I don't want to eat every meal out, and just try and find my bearings. Let me ...
Again the Alps
... larvae?) Nun ich habe mir heute Mexikanisch und eine Bentobox Sushi gegoennt:-) Ich bin aus einem anderen Grund nach Matsumoto gefahren. Es gibt in Japan vier Burgen, die Nationale Schaetze sind: Himeji-jo (siehe Eintrag 94), Inuyama-jo (siehe Eintrag ...
Land of the Rising Sun
So here I am - right now sitting on my tatami mat looking thru the rice paper windows out onto the vinyard nextdoor. Matsumoto - in the heart of the Japanese Alps... Mmmmm so where to start? Some of you may remember Rebecca, who I met in yoga ...
World Heritage Caste in Matsumoto
... , thank you for the wonderful tour, really!! We wandered into a temple and past some nice old streets in Matsumoto before getting back on the train to our next destination, which was Yudanaka, near Nagano (where the winter Olympics were ...
Official ALIEN
Yep - I've been here 7 weeks and they have already registered me as an alien! Well, at least it means I can join the library and it is also the first step to getting a work visa. I don't really want to work, but it seems the easiest way to stay here for ...
Bongo Drummers and Street Furniture
... We've got a morning in Matsumoto before we have to catch the train eastwards, so there's time to see its best feature, Matsumoto Castle. It's a black wooden tower, 6 storeys high, founded on some very strong wooden beams and pillars. It's got windows and ...
Matsumotoooo! Matsumotoooo! Matsumotoooo!
... the staff mad. Not much here though, just another castle here amid the mountains. It is the oldest wooden castle in Japan so one of the "big 4". One interesting feature is the hidden 3rd floor - not visible from the outside - ...
Ramblin' in Matsumoto
... house to downtown Matsumoto, which took about an hour, with lots of brief stops along the way. We went to the castle, Matsumoto's principle attraction, and had lunch at a Nepalese restaurant, buffet style. It was there that Jeff told me I was possibly ...
Incognito
... Masa. We met in Guanajuato, Mexico a year before and still kept in touch. He was working, so we decided to go ahead and drive to Matsumoto, which is where Kevin lives. It's about 2 hours northwest of Tokyo, I think. It costs $40 in tolls and $50 in gas to ...
Castle sweetness
... we decided to go up to Matsumoto today. With sandwiches from Lawson's in hand, we took a local train up North. Matsumoto is considered the gateway to the Japanese Alps so there were lots of nice mountain views during the train ride. After ...
St. Patrick comes to Japan
... -chatting. Other people came by and wanted to say hello, and I made a few acquaintances of other foreigners living in Matsumoto which was really nice. Aki told us that her first English teacher happened to be in the bar that night. ...
Japan Alps
... example the locals set. The flavours were really too subtle for our jaded pallettes, but it was an excellent experience. From Matsumoto it was a scenic bus trip to Kamikochi, little more than a camp site and a few hotels in the middle of the ...
Old King Carl
After my disappointment in Himeji I was determined to see one of Japan's greatest castles. Matsumoto is only an hour and a half on the train from Tsumago so I just knipped there for a day trip. This castle was certainly worth it, and the walk from the ...
Onsen and Tayaki
... 2'000m in the alps. It was snowing and of course freezing! We got up very early in the morning and jumped on a bus in Matsumoto station. The bus driver left us in the middle of nowhere, we were a bit worried but then we found a little shop, the ...
english ...big in japan...
so i am in matsumoto, out of the last 7 nights i spend 6 on parkbenches, the last time i took public transport was 8 days ago and suddenly i have a lot to write about... First, a night in a youthhostel in JP sets you back around 35 to 40 dollar per ...
ALPINE WOOFING: FAR CRY FROM HAKONE HIGH LIFE
... Japan behind the scenes. And so we find ourselves in the tiny town of Norikura, about an hour straight up from Matsumoto, high in the Japan Alps, ‘staff’ of the ‘Ten Gallon Hat Inn’. Not surprisingly, ’10 Gallon’ was ...
Three to Tango, Part IV - Country Roads
... that I hardly ever swear... but that made me swear. When we got off the expressway, we were in the outskirts of Matsumoto, our port of call for the night. Our navigation system, which I'd nicknamed Navi-chan (-chan being an affectionate suffix in ...
Mission to the castle
I devised a plan to get to Osaka for the festival on the 25th and still get to a different festival in Matsumoto and see the castle all in one day. It only involved getting up at 6am and taking 5 trains and getting to our final destination by midnight ...
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