What to do in Nagano, Japan’s winter wonderland, if you don’t ski

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What to do in Nagano, Japan’s winter wonderland, if you don’t ski

2 hours from Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in.

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Freshly dedicated to Unesco's world heritage, the process of making this Japanese rice wine is steeped in history and precision. Dive into a family-run Nagano mountain business and then into a Shinto shrine, where the divine dimension of rice wine makes senseIn a deafening noise, a huge lid rises, a steam plume escapes accompanied by a good smell of rice. There are some 460 kg of rice that were cooked this morning. Around, the workers of the Yuk…