Have you heard about beautiful flower gardens in Hokkaido, Japan? On this page, I will introduce five representative flower sights. Not only cherry blossoms are beautiful flowers in Japan. If you go to Shikisai-no-oka or Farm Tomita, you surely will want to post in the Instagram. There are beautiful flower gardens besides Hokkaido. Hitachi Seaside Park and flowers at the foot of Mt. Fuji are also splendid. Personally, I would like you to see the amazingly beautiful wisteria flowers of Ashikaga!
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Shikisai-no-oka : Lavender etc,
Shikisai-no-oka is a tourist plantation located in Biei-cho, Hokkaido. There are a lot of flower gardens in the site of about 7 hectares. From spring to autumn, about 30 types of flowers bloom one after the other, such as lavender, nadeshiko, sunflower, salvia, marigold, cosmos. Lavender is about to be seen from late June until early August. Those flower gardens are as if they are beautiful carpets. Tourists can travel these flower fields with a bus that tractor is towing. In addition, Shikisai-no-oka has alpaca ranch. You can feed the alpaca there. In addition to this there are restaurants and agricultural direct selling places. In winter, the flower garden is buried in the snow. During this time, you can enjoy snowmobiles and sleds. For details, refer to the following site.
>> The official site of Shikisai-no-oka is here
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Farm Tomita : Lavender etc,
Farm Tomita is a farm in Furano Town, Hokkaido with a total area of approximately 15 hectares. Half of them are lavender fields. The time to see lavender is in July. Besides this, crocuses, barkfish, hyacinths, tulips, moss grasses, salvia, marigolds, cosmos etc. are cultivated and you can see beautiful flowers from April to October.
In the cafe, you can eat lavender or melon taste soft cream. There is also a facility to display dry flowers, you can buy lease etc using dry flowers there. Farm Tomita is open from spring to autumn. For details, please see the official website below.
>> The official website of Farm Tomita is here
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The following articles feature the photos of Biei and Furano in summer. If you like, please see here.
Ashikaga Flower Park : Wisteria
Ashikaga Flower Park is a theme park with a total area of about 9.4 hectares, about 100 km north of Tokyo. Ashikaga Flower Park is famous for its beautiful wisteria flowers. A huge wisteria 150 years old spreads to about 1000 square meters and surprises visitors with beautiful purple flowers. There is also a white wisteria that extends 80 meters in length. There are 350 wisteria in total. It will be lighted up in the evening. These wisteria continue to bloom from the middle of April to the middle of May. In other seasons, flowers such as rose, hydrangea and lily land compete for beauty. From the end of October to the beginning of February, countless illuminations are popular instead of flowers.
To Ashikaga Flower Park, it takes 20 minutes from JR Ashikaga station by free shuttle bus and 30 minutes from Ashikaga city station on Tobu Railway. For details, please see the official website below.
>> The official website of Ashikaga Flower Park is here
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Hitachi Seaside Park : Nemopila, Tulip, Kochia etc.
Hitachi Seaside Park is a state-owned park located about 2 hours north of Tokyo by car. This park is very big. The total area is 350 hectares which is five times bigger than Tokyo Disneyland. Currently, about 200 hectares is used as a park.
There are many vast flower gardens in this park. Although so many kinds of flowers bloom, especially famous are spring nemophila and fall coquia. Approximately 4.5 million Nemophila blue flowers will bloom from late April to mid May. From early October to mid-October, Kokia turns red and the bright red world spreads.
In the park there are sand dunes and forests in addition to flower gardens, there are also large observation cars. You can also enjoy cycling.
>> The official website of Hitachi Seaside Park is here
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Kawaguchiko-cho : Moss Phlox
‘Fuji Shibazakura Festival’ is be held from mid April to late May every year using the vast land located on the northern slope of Mt. Fuji. About 800,000 shares of Shibazakura (Moss Phlox) bloom all together, with the beautiful Mt. Fuji in the background. The venue of this festival was previously used as an off-road course. However, Shibazakura is planted there, and it is used as a festival venue in the spring.
Shibazakura at this venue is really beautiful and worth a visit. However, too many tourists come, so the car gets heavily congested from the lake Kawaguchiko to the venue during the period. Since the venue is open from 8 o’clock in the morning, I recommend that you go as early in the morning as possible to avoid being affected by traffic jam.
>> The official website of Fuji Shiba-sakura Festival is here
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If you are looking for a place to arrange tours, transportation, or admission tickets related to the parks mentioned, please refer to the articles linked below.
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