{"id":730,"date":"2012-10-06T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=730"},"modified":"2012-10-06T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:53:18","slug":"nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagawa Soba Festival &#8216;tll November 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Nagawa access\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vill-nagawa.jp\/access\/index.html\">Nagawa <\/a><\/strong>is located in the western part of Matsumoto near Norikura Highland, famous for &#8220;soba&#8221;, &#8220;hot springs&#8221; and &#8220;ski&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a title=\"Soba in Nagawa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vill-nagawa.jp\/soba\/index.html\">Soba Festival<\/a> in Nagawa&#8221; also started from October 1st until November 4th this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012sinsoba.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" title=\"2012.........`...V..eps\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012sinsoba-724x1024.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy newly harvested soba in Nagawa region. Nagawa soba is grown on the high plateau with 1200 meters above sea level, and \u00a0is full of its flavour and texture.<\/p>\n<p>Special events will be held on October 14th at Nagawa Sansai Hall, \u00a0you can taste Nagawa specially grown soba for 500 yen from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. , or you can try &#8220;soba making&#8221; under local experts&#8217; guidance.<\/p>\n<p>To get Nagawa village, take &#8220;Mastumoto Kamikochi line&#8221; from Matsumoto station, off at &#8220;Shinshimashima Station&#8221;, take local bus from &#8220;Shinshimashima Station&#8221; to &#8220;Bunka Centre (Cultural Centre) in Nagawa&#8221;, takes about 60 minutes from Shinshimashima. \u00a0There are only 3 schedules a day, so watch out!<\/p>\n<p>Bus schedule is \u2192\u3000<strong><a title=\"Nagawa bus schedule from Shinshimashima\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/kurasi\/sumai\/bus\/nagawabus.files\/H241001_jikoku_2.pdf\" target=new>HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bon Apetite!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th\/\" data-text=\"Nagawa Soba Festival &#039;tll November 4th\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagawa is located in the western part of Matsumoto near Norikura Highland, famous for &#8220;soba&#8221;, &#8220;hot springs&#8221; and &#8220;ski&#8221;. &#8220;Soba Festival in Nagawa&#8221; also started from October 1st until November 4th this year. Enjoy newly harvested soba in Nagawa region. Nagawa soba is grown on the high plateau with 1200 meters above sea level, and \u00a0is full of its flavour and texture. Special events will be held on October 14th at Nagawa Sansai Hall, \u00a0you can taste Nagawa specially grown soba for 500 yen from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. , or you can try &#8220;soba making&#8221; under local experts&#8217; guidance. To get Nagawa village, take &#8220;Mastumoto Kamikochi line&#8221; from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/shopping\/nagawa-soba-festival-tll-november-4th\/\" data-text=\"Nagawa Soba Festival &#039;tll November 4th\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359,2354,2365,2356,2353,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012sinsoba-1.jpg?fit=2480%2C3507","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nagawa Soba Festival &#039;tll November 4th | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nagawa is located in the western part of Matsumoto near Norikura Highland, famous for &quot;soba&quot;, &quot;hot springs&quot; 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