[🌸 Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 — Featured Photos Vol.2 🌸]

We’re back with another big batch of entries to the “#Gokase Flower Viewing 2025” contest now running on the Gokase Tourism Association’s Instagram account. We’ll be sharing many of the submissions today.💪🌟

@1230fuukeinoturishi

These nostalgic shots capture not only the classic weeping cherry at Josenji Temple but also everyday cherry blossom scenes from the Kuraoka area.🥺

The photographer’s sensibility that turns your eyes not only to the cherry trees but also to the charming mountain flowers is something to admire and learn from…🙏✨

We’ll be featuring entries every day for a while, so please stay with us.🙇‍♀️

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≪#How to Enter: Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 ≫
Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account and post photos of flowers taken within Gokasecho. Add the two hashtags #Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 and #date of shooting (for example: #March 20) to your Instagram post. 🤳❤️‍🔥

Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/

[Period] From Thursday, March 20, 2025 through Sunday, May 11, 2025

⚠️ Other rules are posted on the Gokase Tourism Association website. Please be sure to read them before entering.
https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1962.html

⚠️ Please take full care to avoid accidents when photographing.

[🌸 Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 — Featured Submissions, Part 1 🌸]

We are sharing entries submitted to the Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 contest currently running on the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.🫡✨

So many lovely entries arrived, and we’ll be showcasing them one after another.👏
@_yuta610
@a2o_yoshino
@aaatkt6
(in no particular order)

Photos feature the cherry blossoms at Josenji, the Harada family residence, Kijiya, and Mikasho Shrine.💡
The daytime blossoms and the night cherry trees are both truly beautiful.🥹💕

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≪How to Enter the Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 Contest≫
Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account, then post photos of flowers taken within Gokasecho on Instagram with the two hashtags: Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 and the shooting date (for example: March 20).🤳❤️‍🔥

Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/

[Period] From Thursday, March 20, 2025, through Sunday, May 11, 2025

⚠️ Other terms are posted on the Gokase Tourism Association website. Be sure to read them before applying.
https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1962.html

⚠️Please take great care to avoid accidents while shooting photos.

Photographed 3/29/25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed 3/29/25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed 3/29/25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed 3/24/25.
It is Koite Water of Kawagoe Kumano Shrine.

Photographed 3/24/25.
It is Koite Water of Kawagoe Kumano Shrine.

Photographed 3/24/25.
It is Koite Water of Kawagoe Kumano Shrine.
It is a Spring specification.

Photographed on April 7, 25.
This is CAFE ANDON and the cherry blossoms of Senba Toshogu Shrine.
The cherry blossoms were beginning to fall.

Photographed on March 22, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed on March 22, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed on March 22, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Full bloom of flowers 🌸
Today, Sunday, April 6, brought warm sunshine and a distinctly springlike atmosphere 🌞
The town’s flowers are now at their best ✨
The cherry blossoms and camellias at Mikasho Shrine are also at peak, drawing many visitors 😊
Traffic is heavy, so please take care when passing through!

Azalea Festival

Inatomi Shrine ⛩️
The azaleas are in full bloom and are in best time to visit.
Point the camera straight up and watch the light penetrate.
It will be the one you are aiming for.

For the viewer the atmosphere of pale light purple and flowers
I would be happy if you could convey it.

Cherry Blossoms in Flight

A week has passed since the bloom was announced in Kyushu, but full bloom still continues in Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture.
The petals' centers have begun to turn red, so the blossoms will start falling soon.

At Kikuchi Park in Kumuchi, Kikuchi County, roughly 3,000 cherry trees, including Somei-yoshino and yamazakura, are in full bloom.
This year, many visitors, including those from overseas, are enjoying hanami.

The Kangetsuro Observation Deck inside the park offers a superb view of Kikuchi Park's cherry blossoms and the city of Kikuchi.

A promenade runs through the park, forming a tunnel of cherry trees.
Even as the petals begin to fall, you can stroll through drifting blossoms.

The park also has a “Love Bench,” where you can relax while viewing the cherry trees.
A row of cherry trees lines the approach to Kikuchi Shrine, and walking under the canopy offers a beautiful contrast of blossoms against the blue sky.

Every year the cherry trees bloom from mid-March through early April.
The stage when petals start to fall also makes for wonderful photos and videos, so please come and visit.

Today, I attended the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine Monthly Festival.
This is yesterday's Shingashi River.

Photographed 3/30/25.
It is the second day of the Kawagoe Spring Festival. It is a boat trip on the Shingashi River.

It is the second day of the Kawagoe Spring Festival.
It is a Spring boat trip on the Shingashi River.

This is the departure ceremony of the Kawagoe clan arquebus.

When I Drive from Sapporo to Obihiro with my family, I went to 🚗💨 Obihiro Shrine
Speaking of Hokkaido, the blue pond is famous, but the green pond is also very beautiful.
Matching with the greenery of the surrounding trees, you can see a calming and fantastic scenery. It's especially beautiful ☀️ on sunny days

Today the Yoshino-miya Shrine Grand Festival, the Zatousan Festival, took place!
I was captivated by a performance from satsuma-biwa player Kanako Kitahara 🥰
This year’s event concluded smoothly as well.
Although strong gusts of wind blew at times, to everyone who came together
thank you very much!

#miyazaki #morotsukavillage #morotsuka #Miyazaki Prefecture #Morotsuka Village #Morotsuka Village Tourism Association #collecting goshuin #Miyazaki goshuin tour #Yoshino-miya Shrine #Zatousan Festival

The cherry blossoms in front of CAFE ANDON have begun to bloom.

Today, I took a walk in Kawagoe.
The cherry blossoms of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine have begun to bloom.

Photographed on March 22, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu approach to the temple.
With pansies and rape flowers, it is gorgeous.

Photographed 3/1/25.
It is a limited time Hanachozu of Koedo Kurasato.

Photographed on March 15, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed on March 15, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Inao, Suzuka, Mie Prefecture

⛩️ Inatomi Shrine ⛩️

Visiting the temple, Shichi-Go-San, 13 visits
It is a place that is very close to our family.

Photographed on March 15, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed on March 15, 25.
It is the Kawazu cherry blossoms of the Shingashi River behind Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
Next week, I'm going to see the cherry blossoms blooming on the Shingashi River.