Preferential discount programs for town residents

     Karuizawa is a famous destination for tourists, and has a lot of commercial and public attractions in the area.  Shopping outlet is of course a top destination, but in addition to that, we have many museums, parks, onsen (hot spring), golf courses, sports facilities, etc. in the area.

    For town residents, these facilities are very close not only in terms of their distance from their living environment but also in terms of their ease of use, thanks to preferential discount program specifically offered to the town residents.

   Let me introduce some well known programs as follows.​  Some of these offers are applied to seasonal residents (owners of seasonal villas and cottages), too.

Tonbo no Yu (Hot Spring)
It is an onsen (hot spring) facility in Hoshino Resort.  Its standard price for one time use for adult is ¥1,300 for weekday's use but it becomes ¥500 after town resident preferential discount is applied.

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Kazakoshi Park (Sports facility)
It is a town operated sports facility.  Curling arena is especially famous as one of the competition places of Nagano Olympic Games in 1998.  Basically, town residents can enjoy 50%-off discount for whole the year for all its facilities.

Exercise Gym:  ¥600 (One time use) to ¥300   
Swimming Pool:  ¥400 (One time use) to ¥200 
Curling:  ¥800 (One time use) to ¥400   
Futsal: ¥400 (One hour use) to ¥200   
Tennis Court: ¥4,500 (4 hours use) to ¥2,250 
Ball Game Field (baseball or football): ¥26,000 (One day use) to ¥13,000
Gymnasium (Indoor ball games, Budo, etc.): ¥200 (One time use) to ¥100

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Art Museum's Day
Karuizawa Museum of Art Council defines the 1st day of every month as the Art Museum's Day when admission fee is free at all the council member museums only for town residents.  Following 9 museums are the members.
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Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Collects and exhibits 20th century moderns art  such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Hisao Domoto, Keiji Usami, Shusaku Arakawa and
Kazumi Nakamura.

Literary Museum of Karuizawa
Exhibits manuscripts, personal collections etc. from Karuizawa origin writers such as Tatuo Hori, Saisei Muroo, Michizo Tachihara, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Yasunari Kawabata.

Tasaki Museum of Modern Art
​Exhibits works by Hirosuke Tasaki.

Musee Paynet
Exhibits works by Raymond Peynet.

Karuizawa Picturebook Museum
​Exhibits original pictures and painting of world famous picture books.

Wakita Museum of Art
​Exhibits works by Kazu Wakita.

Le Vent Museum of Contemporary Art
​Exhibits works by Isaku Nishimura and his fellows.

Karuizawa Erz Toy Museum
​Exhibits Erzgebirge Toys from Ertz, Germany.

Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa
​Exhibits works by Hiroshi Senju.

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