Kawaguchi Yana Fishing Weir is built along the clean Yahagi River. Enjoy fresh sweetfish cuisine and the unusual sweetfish sashimi (raw fish). Barrier-free seats are also available. The season is from June to late October.

Shokado Fujioka Shop takes orders for birthday cakes in your shape of choice, decorated cakes, and so on. Contact the store in advance to pick up items from the Shokado Miyagami Shop's entire line-up of sweets. Shokado Fujioka Shop also sells high-quality Japanese sweets and manju buns.

Approximately 370 meters of walking paths lined by wisteria flowers, offering entrancing and beautiful views of the blossoms from late April to early May. A wisteria festival is held during Golden Week, when the wisteria flowers are in full bloom.

Aichi Prefectural Greenification Center and its vivid fall colors act as the main venue for the Fujioka Maple Festival in addition to three other areas letting you gaze upon autumn leaves and their distinctive hues, such as Shimokawaguchi Osawa Pond and the colorful reflections off its water. Each event area offers illumination of the trees during the festival period for an awesome display of beautiful reds and yellows. Perfect for a...

Part of the larger My Town Oiden of Toyota City, this event is held at the Fujioka District where locals participate in a dance contest. Crowning the event is the fireworks display with about 1,000 shots launched in time with the background music!

Along the Old Road of Asuke, a once busy Shio-no-Michi route - as vital backbone trading roads were called - sits this peculiar bookstore, built with special attention for preserving the charming aspect of the olden times. Merging bookshop with gallery and café, it sits in the corner formed by the main road and the adjacent Manrin Alley, joining other buildings in the townscape that feature the beautiful contrasting plaster and black...

Standing on the banks of the Asuke River, the Hotel Hyakunensou commands a breathtaking view of the fresh clear water of the river and verdant mountains. Each of its guest rooms feature unique, chic designs. First-class chefs serve full-course meals of genuine French cuisine, and guests can also enjoy fresh-baked bread as well as ham and sausages hand-made by local senior citizens.

The fragrant coffee made from beans roasted in-house with charcoal made in Sanshu Asuke Yashiki Museum is particularly popular. Sit out on the terrace and spend a relaxing time gazing at the river.

Founded in 1965 years ago, this restaurant deep inside Korankei Gorge serves traditional Japanese cooking. Its specialty is hot pot made with wild game—boar, bear, pheasant, and more—and their secret red miso broth. This wild game hot pot is served from autumn to spring.

This confectionery has been producing its Nichigetsu-Monaka sweets since its establishment in 1916. Otebo beans from Hokkaido are cooked low and slow with high-quality sugar to make glossy white bean paste, and filled in a crisp wafer made from sticky rice. The unique wafer will never break into pieces when you hold it or bite it. The confectionery continuously strives to break the mold and set new standards for monaka. The wor...

The Asian Fawnlilies of Asuke are located on slopes of Mt. Iimori facing northwestwards and occupy an area of about 0.5 hectares. Every year between about mid-March and late-March it is possible to see the cute blossoms, which open almost all at once starting from a particularly warm day somewhere in the season. Curiously, if it rains or the sky is covered, the flowers do not show their graces. Almost at the same time, several other...

The basic pattern of the Asuke Townscape (Important Preservation District of Historic Buildings) was formed during the Sengoku era, while the modern layout of the town developed in the early Edo period. The current townscape is lined with machiya townhouses built after the great fire of 1775 in the nurigome-zukuri style, which are coated in plaster to the eaves in order to prevent fires, and conveys the look of the town in those da...