JULY AT JIGOKUDANI · QUIET · 9TH OF TWELVE
Hot, and the pool is mostly empty
At 24 °C mean air there is nothing to warm up against. Wardens sometimes bait the water to bring the troop down at all. Come for the valley, not for the picture.
24.3 °C is the 1991–2020 mean for Nagano city at 418 m. The park is at 850 m and runs two to three degrees colder, so read it as about 21.3 to 22.3 °C. No snow falls in an average July in the city.
The April–October timetable. Wardens bait the pool to get them in at all.
The ticket, in detail湯THE GUIDED DAY, YEAR-ROUND$136 (≈¥21,200)PER PERSON · $273 (≈¥42,600) FOR ONE · ¥800 (≈$5.1) AT THE GATEOne price in all twelve months. What changes is what is at the end of it.
Live dates in JulyWhat the calendar does to July
QUIETEverything on this list is published by the park or by Nagaden and changes on a date. Wardens bait the pool to get them in at all.
What the monkeys are doing in July
July has the troop in the trees rather than the water. The quiet part of the year. The air is warm enough on its own, so the pool is mostly empty — wardens sometimes throw food in to bring the troop down at all, and the ones that get in are mostly the young, playing.
In the warm months the monkeys are rarely in the pool — the air is warm enough on its own; wardens sometimes throw food into the water to encourage them in, and the ones that do get in are mostly the young, playing.
The park publishes a predicted time for the monkeys coming down from the mountain and asks visitors to check before traveling and again on the day, through its live cameras and social accounts — which is the only thing that answers «will they be there today», and it is free.
A tour cannot fill the pool
Read before bookingWardens throw food in to bring the troop down and the young get in to play. That is the July pool, guided or not.
THE TROOP DECIDES Park staff work to attract the monkeys during opening hours, but the monkeys may not show up at all on certain days; appearances are particularly sporadic in autumn. Seven of the 21 tours on this site include the ¥800 (≈$5.1) gate fee in the price and the rest leave it at the gate; not one of them includes a monkey.
LIVE DATES · JULY · FROM NAGANO · ¥800 (≈$5.1) AT THE GATE
July, priced and dated
8:30–17:00 at the gate, 7 a day, reportedly on the express bus, and wardens bait the pool to get them in at all. Everything else about the day is the same in every month, and is priced on the pages below.
OR JUNE INSTEAD · AUGUST INSTEAD · SUMMER AS A WHOLE · ALL TWELVE COMPARED