Very nice, we stayed here a week, at the hotel metropolitan nagano, right by the train station, which is convenient. The people here are very friendly and helpful. Right now I am in Tokyo, and I miss Nagano!

It is summer now and it was hot, I was happy to discover the subway entrances can also be used as pedestrian underpasses to cross under a street, rather than standing in the sun and heat waiting on the crosswalk. There was a tunnel from close to our hotel to the bottom of a department store closeby, to the bottom of a department store which was diagonally across the street from our hotel. I found this to be very convenient.

Many excellent day trips, wasabi farm, monkey onsen, etc.