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Where to stay in Nagano Prefecture
This guide covers 10 destinations in Nagano Prefecture, a first-level administrative division of Japan, with 103 places to stay between them. The largest by population are Nagano, Matsumoto and Ueda. The airport most of them name as their nearest is Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport (MMJ).
- Destinations in this guide
- 10
- Places to stay
- 103
- Main airport
- MMJShinshu-Matsumoto Airport
- Currency
- JPYyen
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
Destinations
Destinations in Nagano Prefecture
Every destination in this guide in Nagano Prefecture, the ones with the most places to stay first. Best months are the months that are comfortable there (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month); the nearest airport is by straight-line distance from the centre.
Where to stay
Places to stay in Nagano Prefecture
6 places to stay in Nagano Prefecture from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
Where to stay
More hotels in Nagano Prefecture
97 hotels in Nagano Prefecture recorded in Wikidata and not marked closed; the 30 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each is listed under the destination it is within 25 km of.
| Hotel | Where | Opened |
|---|---|---|
| Mampei Hotel | Saku | 1894 |
| Hanaya Hotel | Ueda | |
| Hotel Buena Vista | Matsumoto | 1991 |
| Hotel Metropolitan Nagano | Nagano | 1996 |
| Kanbayashi Hotel Senjukaku | Nagano | 1928 |
| Nakabusa Onsen | Azumino | 1821 |
| Seisen-ryo | Chino | |
| Takamine Onsen | Saku | |
| Tsuruya Ryokan | Saku | |
| ホテルJALシティ長野 | Nagano | 1993 |
| 佐久一萬里温泉ホテル | Saku | |
| Ace Inn Matsumoto | Matsumoto | |
| Ancient Hotel Asama Karuizawa | Saku | 2011 |
| Ariakesō | Azumino | 1951 |
| Hoshinoya Karuizawa | Saku | |
| Hotel Sunroute Nagano | Nagano | |
| ホテル国際21 | Nagano | 1969 |
| 信州観光ホテル | Chikuma | |
| 奥霧ヶ峰八島高原荘 | Chino | |
| 安曇野市しゃくなげ荘 | Azumino | |
| 安曇野市長峰荘 | Azumino | |
| 富士屋ユースホステル | Ueda | |
| 望岳荘 | Iida | 1976 |
| 松川村営すずむし荘 | Azumino | |
| 梓水苑 | Matsumoto | 1943 |
| Altitude Madarao | Nagano | |
| Candeo Hotels Chino | Chino | |
| Chisun Grand Nagano | Nagano | |
| Dormy Inn Matsumoto | Matsumoto | |
| Dormy Inn Nagano | Nagano |
When to go
Best time to visit Nagano Prefecture
From the climate of 10 destinations in Nagano Prefecture with climate data: how many are comfortable each month (average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month), and the typical high and rainfall across them. No month is comfortable in any of them by this measure.
| Month | Comfortable destinations | Typical high | Typical rainfall |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 of 10 | 2 °C | 52 mm |
| February | 0 of 10 | 3 °C | 60 mm |
| March | 0 of 10 | 7 °C | 103 mm |
| April | 0 of 10 | 14 °C | 123 mm |
| May | 0 of 10 | 19 °C | 136 mm |
| June | 0 of 10 | 22 °C | 205 mm |
| July | 0 of 10 | 25 °C | 245 mm |
| August | 0 of 10 | 26 °C | 181 mm |
| September | 0 of 10 | 22 °C | 227 mm |
| October | 0 of 10 | 16 °C | 141 mm |
| November | 0 of 10 | 11 °C | 78 mm |
| December | 0 of 10 | 4 °C | 48 mm |
Typical = the median across the destinations. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Airports serving Nagano Prefecture
The airports with scheduled flights that the destinations in Nagano Prefecture name among their nearest, by how many name each as the nearest. An airport can lie outside the region. Distances are straight lines from a destination's centre.
MMJ · Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport
TOY · Toyama Kitokito Airport
NKM · Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base
FSZ · Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport
NTQ · Noto Satoyama Airport
KMQ · Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base
HND · Tokyo Haneda International Airport
Good to know
Public holidays in Nagano Prefecture, 2026
Shops and offices may close and transport may run reduced timetables on these dates. Source: python-holidays (MIT).
Nationwide in Japan
Nearby
Regions near Nagano Prefecture
Other regions of Japan with a page in this guide, nearest first by the straight-line distance between the median positions of their destinations.
Sources: destinations and their regions from Wikidata; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia, ODbL); public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay and guest scores from each operator's own public pages; further hotels from Wikidata. A region has a page here when at least 3 destinations of this guide lie in it. How this guide is made.