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Iiyama City

Northern Nagano’s Bucolic Hills & Valleys

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

Today, we’ll be getting off the beaten path again to examine Nagano Prefecture’s city of Iiyama. Truth be told, it was only recently that this part of Japan popped up on the radar for me. While I had some vague awareness of Iiyama being the jumping off point to go to Nozawa Onsen, it wasn’t until the local…