First ever in the world! I will introduce the art museum “Bee Heaven” of honeycomb arts which created by a man fascinated by bees! Bees are not bad guys! They are good model of companies! There is an art museum called “Bee Heaven” which honeycombs of hornet are displayed in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture. More than 1600 of unique masterpiece of honeycomb arts are displayed. Yoshikuni Shiozawa who is a director of “Bee Heaven” respects bees a lot because he believes “Hardworking bees achieve great job with small bodies. This is good example of companies!” It opened in 1995. Mr. Shiozawa founded a liquid concrete company in the local Tomi […]

Foreign visitors are dramatically increasing! Why Japanese macaques of Nagano Prefecture is popular among foreigners? Yamanouchi Town, Nagano Prefecture where Shiga Highland and Yudanakashibu hot spring village are located is a mountainous region where Japanese macaque live. It is very cold in winter and one third of the year is covered with snow. Japanese macaques living in “Jigokudani (Hell Valley)” area of Yamanouchi Town are famous as “Monkey go into hot spring” in both domestic and oversea. Also, they are called as “Snow Monkeys”. The photograph of Japanese macaque go into hot spring was posted on the cover of American photographic magazine in 1970 and introduced by medias of each […]