{"id":655757,"date":"2025-07-06T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/655757\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:01:24","slug":"the-spectacular-atera-valley-and-emerald-green-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/655757\/","title":{"rendered":"The spectacular Atera Valley and emerald green stream!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The spectacular Atera Valley and emerald green stream!\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rakHNyvTdto\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe spectacular Atera Valley and emerald green stream!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHello, I&#8217;m Ichiro \ud83d\ude0a Today, I&#8217;m going to take a walk in the Atera Valley in Okuwa Village, Nagano Prefecture. June 30, 2025. The cooperation fee will be used for the maintenance of toilets and walking trails in Atera Valley. Today, after walking around Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, I came to Atera Valley. It takes about 15 minutes by car from Tsumago-juku to get here. It&#8217;s only a 15-minute drive, but you can see a completely different view from Tsumago-juku\u270c\ufe0f Atera River Bridge. Atera River. Fish are swimming upstream desperately. Many people seem to enjoy walking from here, but I&#8217;m heading upstream by car. If you want to take a walk, you can walk along this road. Welcome to Atera Valley. If you walk about 6 km along this road, you can see about 15 scenic spots, but today I will introduce a few of them. As you can see, the road is narrow, so during the summer high season, private cars are restricted. There are spaces here and there for cars to pass each other. Today is a weekday, so there are no oncoming cars, but on weekends, I wouldn&#8217;t really want to drive here \ud83d\ude05 I hope we don&#8217;t meet any oncoming cars on the way to the Akahiko parking lot.\ud83d\ude4f Driving in reverse.\ud83d\ude05 The first scenic spot is a strange rock called Taishi and a forest railway bridge. It is no longer in use, but it is said to be Japan&#8217;s oldest forest railway, built in 1901.The strange rock is located under the iron bridge. There is a signboard with an explanation at the scenic spot. Racoon Dog Pool For some reason, the pools in this valley are named after animals. Let&#8217;s go down halfway to see Racoon Dog Pool. It&#8217;s not a raccoon, it&#8217;s a dog swimming!\ud83d\ude2e The river water is cold, but it was a record-breaking hot day, so it might be just right. I feel like swimming \ud83d\ude05 Turtle rock. A turtle facing downstream. Can you see it? With that cooperation money, it might be better to cut down some trees.\ud83d\ude05 There is a pool called \u201cDogs Turning Back Pool\u201d right next to the turtle stone. Let&#8217;s walk to \u201cDogs Turning Back Pool.\u201d In the days before the well-maintained roads of today, hunters&#8217; dogs were afraid of the sheer cliffs and refused to go any further, which is how it got its name. The Akahiko parking lot is coming up soon. It was sunny just a moment ago, but suddenly it became cloudy.\ud83d\ude31 It&#8217;s a weekday, but the parking lot is almost full.\ud83d\ude05 There is a monument inscribed with a poem by the poet Akahiko Shimagi next to the parking lot. The suspension bridge ahead leads to a walking path, but it has started to rain lightly, so I think I&#8217;ll skip the walk today. \ud83d\ude05 The walking path is 1.2 km long. Akahiko Suspension Bridge. You can play in the water right below the parking lot. A dog chases a ball. I&#8217;ll name this spot \u201cDog Playground Pool\u201d! \u270c\ufe0f Rokudan Waterfall. If you walk along the path from earlier, you can get very close to the waterfall. But if you get too close, you might not be able to see everything \ud83d\ude05 It&#8217;s best to view the waterfall from a little distance away. Finally, Bear Pool. This area is often visited by bears, and it is said that it got its name because bears with their cubs were often seen enjoying a bath here. I hope I don&#8217;t encounter any bears as I descend.\ud83d\ude05 I like the first one I saw, \u201cRacoon Dog Pool,\u201d and this one, \u201cBear Pool.\u201d I think stuffed raccoon dogs and bears are cute, but I don&#8217;t want to encounter the real thing.\ud83d\ude05 At Bear Pool, you can see the pool from the top of that rock. It&#8217;s pretty high, so it&#8217;s a little thrilling. \ud83d\ude05 It&#8217;s raining, so it looks slippery. \ud83d\ude31 How is it? This is Atera Valley. The red flowers blooming on the rocks are called Kiso River azaleas. I&#8217;m glad I got to see the emerald green stream and red Kiso River azaleas again this year \u270c\ufe0f A fish is swimming. Did it swim upstream from downstream?\ud83e\udd14 Thank you for watching the video until the end. See you in the next video! \ud83d\ude0a<br \/>\n<br \/>\nToday, I came to Atera Valley in search of coolness.<br \/>\nThe emerald green stream of Atera Valley is so beautiful that it is called \u201cAtera Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I visited several famous spots in the valley.<br \/>\nIt was a record-breaking hot day for June, and both people and dogs were swimming in the river.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Opening<br \/>\n01:13 Entrance to Atera Valley &#8211; Atera River Bridge<br \/>\n03:03 Car window (encounter with oncoming car)<br \/>\n04:53 Forest railway bridge<br \/>\n05:16 Racoon Dog Pool<br \/>\n07:02 Turtle Rock<br \/>\n08:13 Dogs Turning Back Pool<br \/>\n09:28 Car window (Akahiko parking lot is almost full)<br \/>\n10:12 Akahiko Suspension Bridge<br \/>\n11:50 Rokudan Waterfall<br \/>\n12:33 Bear Pool<\/p>\n<p>Shooting date: June 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Okuwa Village Official Website: https:\/\/www.vill.okuwa.lg.jp\/kanko\/shizen\/aderakeikoku\/precautions_atera.html<\/p>\n<p>*Google Translate was used for the translation. The translation may not be accurate.<br \/>\n*The information in the video may not be 100% accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to my channel.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEIyK0qlofzDykYBKGrwi5Q?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for watching!<\/p>\n<p>#ateravalley #nagano #asmr #japan #travel #vlog #japantravelwalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacular Atera Valley and emerald green stream! 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