Tsuboniwa Nature Park is a natural garden located on a lava plateau around Tsuboniwa Station, the last stop of the Kita-Yatsugatake ropeway (2,237m above sea level), about 7 minutes from Sanroku Station, and is also the gateway to climbing Kita-Yokodake and other mountains. Tsuboniwa Nature Park, which originated from a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago, looks like a traditional Japanese garden (thus the name “tsuboniwa”).
https://navi.chinotabi.jp/en/spot/3057/; https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/spot/02301-14421676/
https://www.kitayatu.jp/en/; https://navi.chinotabi.jp/en/spot/1427/; https://db.go-nagano.net/en/topics_detail6/id=12326
Kita-Yatsugatake Ropeway, Kitayama, Chino, Nagano, 2025/08/30
Tsuboniwa Nature Park, Kitayama, Chino, Nagano, 2025/08/30
A fir wave is a set of alternating bands of fir trees in sequential stages of development, observed in forests on exposed mountain slopes in several areas, including northeastern North America and Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_wave; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abies_veitchii
Fir waves are mostly seen in Abies veitchii forests in Japan.
Dead trees possibly form a fir wave, Tsuboniwa Nature Park, Kitayama, Chino, Nagano, 2025/08/30
Peacock butterfly (Aglais io) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglais_io
Tsuboniwa Nature Park, Kitayama, Chino, Nagano, 2025/08/30