Niigata, Japan · Asia
Muikamachi sits on the route: 10 minutes from Shiozawa, 53km from Jigokudani Monkey Park.
Muikamachi is in Niigata, Japan, with about 29,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Shiozawa, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Muikamachi: Nozawa Onsen (42 km), Fukiware Falls (50 km), Jigokudani Monkey Park (53 km), Shibu Pass (54 km).
The nearest famous roads are Shibu Pass, Mount Haruna Touge and Irohazaka Winding Road.
Muikamachi is in Niigata, Japan, about 4 km from Shiozawa.
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Essential numbers in Japan
Japan Helpline (24h English assistance): 0570-000-911. An International Driving Permit (1949 convention) is required to drive.
Full driving guide for Japan6 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
A steep village of thirteen free communal bathhouses maintained by residents, plus an open hot-spring cooking pool where locals blanch vegetables. The Oyu bathhouse is a wooden temple-roofed landmark at the centre.
42 km · about 50 min drive
waterfall
A 7 m fall where the Katashina River drops into a fissure worn through flat rock, earning it the name the Niagara of the East. A riverside walkway runs right along the rim.
50 km · about 55 min drive
natural wonder
A unique hot spring area where wild Japanese macaques famously bathe in steaming thermal pools surrounded by snow.
53 km · about 60 min drive
mountain pass
At 2,172 m this is the highest point on any Japanese national highway, on Route 292 between Nagano and Gunma. In spring the road is cut through snow walls several metres high.
54 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
A cobbled onsen village of wooden inns where guests in yukata and geta make a circuit of nine small public bathhouses. It is the road-end village below the snow monkey valley.
55 km · about 65 min drive
photogenic
The steaming timber sluice at the centre of Kusatsu, where 4,000 litres a minute of highly acidic spring water is cooled across wooden channels before reaching the baths. Floodlit and clouded in steam after dark.
56 km · about 65 min drive
4 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
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