Visit Maniwa

03/06/2025

[Rainy days visiting spots]

Hiruzen Herb Garden Herbill

Restaurant and Café
It is a place with a calm surrounding which you can feel the four season of Japan. This place has a different event during the season change. You can enjoy the home-made Herbal Tea or Coffee which is the originality of the place.

Craft Room
At the second floor you can experience your own original arrangement of Dry Flowers and Lizard Flowers. The staffs will support you to arrange flowers. There`s no worries for those first-time visitors.
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Making of Herbarium Flower
Pick a flower which you want and put it in the bottle, put the oil inside the bottle to make the craft looks perfect.
Fee: 1500yen
Making Time: 30mins

Making of Lease
Pick a design from the choices and you can make it from your own idea. It can be made from your own design by imaging your own room or where you want to put the design. It would probably a memorable time of the experience.
Fee: 1500yen
Making time: 1hr and more

Entrance Fee: Major 500yen/Jr. Sr. high school student 200yen/Elementary Entrance free

Open Time: 9am to 4:30pm

Website:
https://hiruzen-herbgarden-herbill.jimdofree.com/%EF%BD%85%EF%BD%8E%EF%BD%87%EF%BD%8C%EF%BD%89%EF%BD%93%EF%BD%88/

03/06/2025

“Maniwa Biomass” was featured in Dong-A Ilbo, one of South Korea's top three newspapers.
Recently, there has been an increase in participants from South Korea, and I feel that interest in natural energy is growing.
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【[Main contents]】
Japan, the miracle of Satoyama. Population and tourist numbers increase thanks to the impact of waste wood power plants.
Shifting to green energy, changing forests means to help changing people's lives. Measures to address population decline (birth rate, aging), forest economy, job creation, production of wood biomass energy using waste wood, Maniwa City's energy self-sufficiency rate is 72%.
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This article introduces the above initiatives implemented by Maniwa City.
It is also introduced on the website.
Please take a look.
https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20250410/131393630/2

▼Manabi Tourism Introduction Website
Channel Factory Co., Ltd.
https://m.blog.naver.com/gomaniwa/223879385109

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07/05/2025

Gelato Daigozakura

Fresh luxury milk is used in the factory to make a creamy gelato ice cream. They have a different flavors and different cups to serve. Every season, they have different flavors served. You can arrange it in which flavor you want and have fun with it. They have a space to eat inside and outside the store. The store has the feelings to make customers have fun with relatives and friends which they made an idea of taking care of rabbit in the store to make more customer spend their time better.

Cups and cones choices:
・Single cup
・Double cup
・Single waffle cone
・Double waffle cone
・Single cone
・Double cone

Gelato Daigozakura Official Website:
https://daigozakura.jp/

＊Store time: 11am~5pm

＊Price: single cup 310￥up (it depends on which size was chosen)

07/05/2025

Hokubo Fireflies Park

It can be seen in long river of Bichu River. There are 3 species of fireflies living in the river. They are called “Genji-botaru” (Nipponoluciola cruciate), “Heike-botaru” (Aquatica lateralis) and “Hime-botaru” (Luciola parvula). It seems you are in the different world when you see them flying around. Fireflies like to live in a clean and peaceful place, it means the river has remained clean and healthy. Fireflies are starting to fly at 8pm to 10pm.

Fireflies Season
Genji-botaru: Starting from end of May until first week of June
Hime-botaru: Starting on the middle of June until first week of September

[Manners of Watching]
1. Don`t aim the light through the river.
(You can`t take picture of the firefly with a flash camera)
2. Please be quiet while watching.
3. Do not throw garbage around.
(For the healthy living of the firefly we should take home our garbage)

Area: Hokubo Town Hall, Maniwa City (surrounding)

Fireflies Official website:
https://www.maniwa.or.jp/en/destinations/fireflies.html

21/04/2025

[Bishamon Falls]

By the falls there was Bishamon Emperor`s shrine which the name comes from. The falls splash 10 meters long to the ground. When the water flow is low, they spread apart. (called husband and wife falls)

21/04/2025

[Yamanori-Keikoku Falls]

In 400 meters walkway you can see the falls splashing 20 meters long. You can experience Alkali Ion Mist which has a natural relaxing effect. At the forest, you can see a different species of wild birds and other living things. Near the falls there`s a rare Wasabi farm located.

21/04/2025

[Fudo Falls]

The fall`s connected into two steps, the upper part of the fall is the main part (called Mendaki) connected to the small lake which connected to the lower part (called Ondaki) that flows perfectly. The falls height is about 38 meters high and the lower part is about 5 meters high. It is living inside the peaceful forest that has a good impression to visit.

21/04/2025

[Kanba Falls]

Kanba Falls called the top of 100 naturescape of Japan with the height of 110 meters and width 20 meters. It looks like a white seaweed that flows perfectly to the river. In the middle of the falls there`s a big black rock that spread the flow of the water. By falls it is surrounded with Japanese monkeys (called Makaka Fuscata) living, they welcome people adorably.

Aside from the main Kanba Falls, there`s also different falls you can see when climbing up way to the falls which blow you`re sight. (Summer`s new leaves and Fall`s colorful leaves are the best season to visit.)

(About the wild monkeys)
Our staffs don’t feed the monkeys. They are living in the wildlife so they don’t appear in the park sometimes. Pets are not allowed to enter the park.

(Location Information)
TV program often uses the location to make a Drama.

(Access)
By taxi from Katsuyama Station (one way: about 2000￥)
Nearest taxi office—Fukumoto Taxi (0867-44-3175)

(Discounts for the taxi)
Maniwa City accommodated --- Taxi Fee 50%OFF

17/04/2025

Cherry Blossom of Kayabe Shrine

The cherry blossom tree From the Big Guard Frame (Torii) made from rock way to Kayabe Shrine has 1 kilometer lined planted trees in both sides. It looks like you`re walking in a tunnel when you enter the Shrine.

17/04/2025

[Gaisen Cherry Blossom Road]

Gaisen Cherry Blossom from year 1906. Shinjo Town was planted the cherry blossom in the road both sides as the memorial of winning the Nichiro War.
There`s about 130 Cherry Blossom planted that has a gap of 5.5 meters and lined perfectly which it represents Shinjo Town during the Spring season.

In Edo Period, Sanyo and Sanin that connects Izumo Road in Shinjo Village. Now people living in the village storing the atmosphere and history of the village. Spring`s Cherry Blossom, new leaves of tree in summer, colorful leaves in fall and snow on winter which four season you can experience and have fun. Both of the street has a river flow in it which you can hear gently sound of the water. It called top 100 soundscape of Japan.

17/04/2025

[Mikamo old Neighborhood Cherry Blossom]

Behind the Neighborhood of Mikamo, along the Shinjo River`s barrier there is about 50 trees Blooming Cherry Blossom and it has about 600 meters gap planted on it. When you look above along the river it looks like you are in the tunnel of cherry blossom.

17/04/2025

[Kuse Cherry Blossom Tunnel]

About 1 kilometer along the Asahi River there is about 180 Somei-yoshino trees planted. When it blooms the Cherry Blossom trees make a Tunnel in the road that is called “Tunnel Sakura”.

When the Cherry Blossom perfectly bloomed many visitors are coming to watch the Sakura. There is a light up on it you can have fun during the night. At the end of March there`s a Cherry blossom festival is held.