Azumino Chihiro Park

The park covers an area of approximately 53,500 square meters with a view of the tranquil countryside and the Northern Alps.
Within the park, there is “Totto-chan Plaza” where visitors can experience the world of Totto-chan, “Patzowsker Garden,” a work of art that can be touched and felt, and the Azumino Chihiro Art Museum, as well as a hands-on farm and wooded area where children and adults can fully experience nature and enjoy a day at leisure.

Totto-chan Plaza
At Totto-chan Plaza, where the world of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s essay “Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window” is recreated, Dehani 201, which was in operation until 1980, has been relocated to recreate the school building of the train that appeared in the essay, and there is a “train classroom” and “train library.

Patzowska Garden
Designed by Czech picture book artist and illustrator Kwieta Patsowsker, this area stretches from the pond to the museum and is dotted with eight stone objects and a pond made up of two squares, one large and one small. Children can be seen playing in the pond.

Experience Exchange Center
Visitors can try their hand at making food using locally grown ingredients.

Azumino Chihiro Art Museum
This is the world’s largest picture book museum exhibiting the works of Chihiro Iwasaki, a picture book artist who continued to draw various expressions of children throughout her life, and other picture book artists from around the world.
Visitors can read books in the shade of trees in the park and watch children play in the pond, just as they would have in Matsukawa Village, which Chihiro Iwasaki loved so much.