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Weston Relief
ウェストン碑Nagano · Chubu
A bronze relief set into a riverside boulder near Tashiro Bridge honouring Rev. Walter Weston, the English missionary who popularised the Japanese Alps and helped found Japanese alpinism; a small festival is held here each June.
- Best season
- Summer
- Crowd level
- Hidden gem
- Rating
- 3.9· 231 reviews
- Opening hours
- Seasonal — see below
- Admission
- Free; open-air riverside bronze monument near Tashiro Bridge, Kamikochi. No admission.
- Nearest station
- Kamikochi Bus Terminal (no railway) — private cars are banned beyond the Kama Tunnel, so access is the shuttle bus or a taxi from the Sawando or Hirayu car parks · about 10 min walk downstream from Kappa Bridge
Usual hours — confirm with the official site for holidays + seasonal closures.
Today
FreeClosures
- Open-air and unstaffed, so any hour of the day; but it is inside Kamikochi, which is closed to all access from 16 November to mid-April.
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