{"id":76200,"date":"2010-06-26T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-06-26T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:06:23","slug":"wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/sightseeing\/wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Flowers &#038; Monkeys, Fresh Green and Music Festival in Kamikochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/kamikoch2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI went to <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+8.htm\">Kamikochi<\/a> to hike and see the famous wild flower nirinso(wind flower).<br \/>\nThe flowers are passed their peak, but I could still see many flowers between Myojin and Tokusawa, which is a gateway to <a href=\"\/contents12+index.htm\">climb the Japan Alps<\/a>. The scene of a great many tiny nirinso blooming in Kamikochi is really cute and famous.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/NIRINSo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/NIRINSo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI also saw wild monkeys. I sometimes see them coming from the front of the trail. They, especially the young ones, are also cute. They were eating leaves of wild grass.<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/monkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/monkey2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/kamimus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>From mid-May to early-June is the best season in Kamikochi, since we can see the remaining snow on the mountains, fresh green leaves, and wild flowers.<br \/>\nOn the day I went, an annual event Kamikochi Music Festival was held in Konashidaira Camp Site. Clear voice of a famous singer and local chorus group echoed in the beautiful valleys and mountains of the Japan Alps in the background.<\/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\/sightseeing\/wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi\/\" 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\/sightseeing\/wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi\/\" data-text=\"Wild Flowers &amp; Monkeys, Fresh Green and Music Festival in Kamikochi\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Kamikochi to hike and see the famous wild flower nirinso(wind flower). The flowers are passed their peak, but I could still see many flowers between Myojin and Tokusawa, which is a gateway to climb the Japan Alps. The scene of a great many tiny nirinso blooming in Kamikochi is really cute and famous. I also saw wild monkeys. I sometimes see them coming from the front of the trail. They, especially the young ones, are also cute. They were eating leaves of wild grass. From mid-May to early-June is the best season in Kamikochi, since we can see the remaining snow on the mountains, fresh green leaves, [&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\/sightseeing\/wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi\/\" 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\/sightseeing\/wild-flowers-monkeys-fresh-green-and-music-festival-in-kamikochi\/\" data-text=\"Wild Flowers &amp; Monkeys, Fresh Green and Music Festival in Kamikochi\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359,2354,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wild Flowers &amp; Monkeys, Fresh Green and Music Festival in Kamikochi | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I went to Kamikochi to hike and see the famous wild flower nirinso(wind flower). 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