Gunma 群馬県

Kanto region · the offbeat side of Gunma.

7 discoveries

Shibu Pass

Japan's highest paved national road, 2,172m up on the Gunma–Nagano border, where dawn temperature inversions bury the valley in a sea of clouds below your feet.

📍 Gunma, Nakanojo 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🍁 Autumn

🌲 Nature

Chatsubomi Moss Park

A neon-green stream of rare acid-loving moss fed by a hot mineral spring called Anajigoku — 'the hell pit' — inside a former iron mine deep in the Gunma mountains.

📍 Gunma, Nakanojo 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌸 Spring 🌻 Summer 🍁 Autumn

🌲 Nature

Onioshidashi Park

A black lava field below Mt. Asama, frozen mid-flow by the catastrophic 1783 eruption, with walking paths winding through the rock to a hillside memorial temple.

📍 Gunma, Tsumagoi 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌸 Spring 🍁 Autumn

🏛️ Museum

Calpis "Mirai" Museum

A free factory tour at Asahi's Gunma plant tracing Calpis from its 1919 invention to the fermentation tanks making it today, with a tasting at the end.

📍 Gunma, Tatebayashi 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

⛩️ Shrine & Temple

Morinji Temple — Bunbuku Chagama

1426 Zen temple famous for the Bunbuku Chagama folktale; 21 tanuki statues line the approach, and the legendary tea kettle (11.2kg purple gilt bronze) is on display.

📍 Gunma 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🦊 Animals

Japan Snake Center

A delightfully old-school research park in Gunma devoted entirely to snakes — hundreds of them, from rat snakes to vipers — where you can watch a feeding, hold a python, and meet the staff's scaly stars.

📍 Gunma, Ota 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

⛩️ Shrine & Temple

Takasaki Byakue Daikannon

A serene 41.8-metre goddess of mercy in gleaming white concrete stands on a hill above Takasaki — you climb a staircase inside her body, past tiny windows, all the way up to her shoulders.

📍 Gunma, Takasaki 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

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