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A National Treasure among Japan's twelve original castle keeps — the oldest existing five-story donjon (1593–94) commanding views of the Northern Alps

Guardian shrine of the Matsumoto castle town, enshrining Sugawara no Michizane as a deity of victory and learning

Engishiki-listed ancient shrine in Matsumoto, guardian of water and agriculture on the Matsumoto Plain

Matsumoto shrine enshrining a divided spirit of the Kusanagi sword, invited from Atsuta Jingu in Nagoya

Ancient Tendai temple in Matsumoto renowned for warding off evil, enshrining Bato Kannon as its principal deity

Japan's most accessible 3,026m volcano, where buses reach 2,702m, revered as a sacred mountain for ascetics since the Nara period

One of eastern Japan's oldest tumuli, a 3rd-century keyhole-square mound where a triangular-rim mirror was excavated, a national historic site showing Shinano's chieftain society

A National Special Scenic Area at 1,500m in the Northern Alps, famed for the Kappabashi bridge view of the Hotaka peaks and the birthplace of modern Japanese mountaineering

A shrine on the site of Matsumoto Castle's third bailey, enshrining domain lord Mizuno Tadanao, home to the Matsumoto Bonbon summer festival

Matsumoto's chief tutelary shrine enshrining the four supreme deities of creation and harmony — an imperial-visited beppyo shrine founded in the Meiji era