If you want to eat the best buckwheat noodles and Oyaki in Matsumoto area, I suggest you to visit Asukaso in Yasaka village.The village is located among the area of Omachi city and Ikusaka village. Drive your car along route19 from Matsumoto city through Akashina town and crossing the Kido bridge toward Nagano city. About 40 minutes driving from Matsumoto, right after the end of Ikusaka village, there is a bridge named Sanseiji . You make a pin curve drive to the left, right after the bridge. If you miss the point you would not get to the place. So please drive slowly when you get to the bridge.If you are on the right truck, you must be driving local route 55. This road leads you to Omachi city and Hakuba town. Continue driving another five minutes or so along the river, you will pass a tunnel . Then you will see a fall named Otaki or big fall. It would have been magnificent, if it had had much water in the fall. Crossing two or three more bridges driving in ten more minutes, the road gets suddenly wound. Then you will see the sign of Asukaso to your right. It is pretty easy to miss the sign, I almost missed it and past this time, too. You make another pin curve driving here and getting close to the destination. Here you are, this is Asukaso( picture upper left). I had visited here several times before, because my wife is from Ikusaka village which is pretty close. It was good noodle as usual and Oyaki, which is hard bun with cooked vegetable inside, was marvelous. They have their own place to make buckwheat powder. And fireplace to bake Oyaki is classical, they use ash and charcoal. This way makes the Oyaki more delicious.
　You can have a bed for night, but you can also just take hot spring bath here with extra fee of 400yen. The view from the bath tub is forest, you would feel like taking bath in the forest with green fresh open air.

hot spring bath with good view