The Shinshu season is one month late in spring and one month early in autumn.  If you go down Shinshu from Itoigawa in Niigata prefecture to the south on Route 48, you can enjoy the scenery from early spring to late spring, from the place where spring has just opened to the place where spring is in full swing.  If you go down Azumino while looking nostalgic at Mt. Shirouma, the cherry blossoms in the surrounding area are already out of blooming, and Fukujuso and Zazenso are blooming here and there.  The mountains of the Alps with a lot of snow are clearly reflected in the rice fields that have just been filled with water and are waiting for rice planting.  When I go around Shinshu, which has many memories, I feel that blood surge oozes from the corners of my body.

信州の季節は、春は一か月遅れで、秋は一カ月早く巡ります。そんな信州を新潟県の糸魚川から国道48号線を南に下ると、まだ春が開けて間がない所から春真っ盛りの所まで、早春から晩春までの景色を満喫できます。白馬岳を懐かしく眺めながら安曇野を下ると、周辺の桜もさすがに盛りが過ぎ、フクジュソウやザゼンソウがあちらこちらに咲いています。水張りを終え、田植えを待つばかりの田んぼには、残雪多いアルプスの山々がくっきりと映っています。思い出多い信州を巡ると、体の隅から血潮が滲み出る感じがします。