JUNE AT JIGOKUDANI · QUIET · 7TH OF TWELVE

The rainy season, and the quietest gate of the year

Nothing is happening in the water and the last of the births are trailing off. What June has is space: the trail to yourself, and no queue at the ticket window.

20.4 °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 17.4 to 18.4 °C. No snow falls in an average June in the city.

Two Japanese macaques face to face in the steaming pool, the younger one grooming the older

¥THE GATE IN JUNE8:30–17:00ADULT ¥800 (≈$5.1) · CHILD ¥400 (≈$2.6) · OPEN EVERY DAY

The April–October timetable. Rainy season.

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 GATE

One price in all twelve months. What changes is what is at the end of it.

Live dates in June

What the calendar does to June

QUIET

Everything on this list is published by the park or by Nagaden and changes on a date. Rainy season.

JUNE · WHAT IS PUBLISHEDCHECKED 2026-09-06

The park’s hoursAPRIL–OCTOBER TIMETABLE · OPEN EVERY DAY

8:30–17:00

The express bus from Nagano StationJR NAGANO STATION EAST EXIT, BAY 23 · NO RESERVATIONS

7 a day, reportedly

The Snow Monkey Pass, summer versionSOLD FROM THE MACHINES ONLY, VALID THE DAY YOU BUY IT · CHILD ¥2,400 (≈$15)

¥4,800 (≈$31)

The Jigokudani car park

¥500 (≈$3.2)

Nagaden's own free pass is on sale

¥2,820 (≈$18) for one day

What the monkeys are doing in June

June is the tail of the births and the start of the rainy season. The troop is around; the pool is not the reason. Infants. Births run April to June, with the peak in May, and the pool is largely out of use by now.

Births run April–June, peak May, and June is the tail of it.

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.

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June is the rainy season. The park stays open and the walk stays open; the photograph does not happen.

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.

The pool, right now June against the other eleven

LIVE DATES · JUNE · FROM NAGANO · ¥800 (≈$5.1) AT THE GATE

June, priced and dated

8:30–17:00 at the gate, 7 a day, reportedly on the express bus, and rainy season. Everything else about the day is the same in every month, and is priced on the pages below.

See dates · $136 (≈¥21,200) · $273 (≈¥42,600) for one · ¥800 (≈$5.1) at the gate

OR MAY INSTEAD · JULY INSTEAD · SPRING AS A WHOLE · ALL TWELVE COMPARED