The urban area of Matsumoto is encircled by Alps Mountains on the westside, Utsukushi-gahara Highlands on the eastside, Chikuhoku-mountains on the northside and Enrei Highlands on the southside.   Standing on some open places, we can look at the mountains or the highlands over the townscape.

▲Summitss of Jonendake and Yokodoshidake over rooves westward

  Putting back our eyesight to the ground, on the near side of the quasi-european school house the city-founded library is standing. Its building, whose walls is thoroughly covered with shining glass, is of the super-modern style.   The library is surrounded by the greenbelts. They had better to take a walk outside, if getting tired to read books. A wooden house, of european style, neighboring on the westside of Kaichi School is the priest house which was built also in Meiji period.
A long greenbelts are lying on the westside of them. The narrow mountain-stream named Omazawa-gawa is surrounded by trees. The ravine made by the stream is narrow but deep. Such a landform shows us clearly its invasion-effect it used to have.
However, now surrounded by the bank-protection works, it runs quietly through the residential town.
For Kaichi is a town gotten between Oomzawa-gawa and Metoba-gawa, it has a great deal of water vein under the ground. There are not a few well-springs there. In Old Baba-cho there is the site of the well named Yanagni-no-Ido.

▲View of Utsukushigahara Highlands eastward


▲water-well of Ynagagi