The large-petaled Trillium at Bansei Fureai Forest is in full bloom.

The Trillium at the Fureai Forest, within walking distance from Bansei Onsen, is now at its best!
They usually bloom through the end of May, so be sure to go see them.
https://visit-taiki.hokkaido.jp/tp_detail.php?id=414

At Rokka no Mori, Shirane-aoi, large-flowered Trillium, and anemone are in full bloom 😊

At the attached Rokka’ café (Rokkafe), you can enjoy freshly made Marusei butter sand, so please try one during tea time after strolling through the garden 🎵

📌 Rokka no Mori
[Open Period] April 25, 2025 – October 26, 2025
[Opening Hours]
■ April, May, August, September, October 10:00–16:00
Shop: 10:30–16:00, Café: 11:00–16:00 (last order 15:30)

■ June, July 9:00–16:00
Shop: 9:30–16:00 Café: 11:00–16:00 (last order 15:30)

[Admission]
Adults ¥1,000, elementary and junior high school students ¥500

[Access]
🚗 About 40 minutes by car from Obihiro Station, about 20 minutes by car from Tokachi-Obihiro Airport,
🚌 About 1 hour by bus from Obihiro Station (get off at the nearest stop: Michi-no-Eki Nakasatsunai)
From Michi-no-Eki Nakasatsunai it’s about a 15-minute walk, or rent a bicycle at Michi-no-Eki Nakasatsunai and cycle about 5 minutes

https://www.rokkatei.co.jp/facilities/%E5%85%AD%E8%8A%B1%E3%81%AE%E6%A3%AE-

At the ‘‘Kokuei Bihoku Hillside Park’’ in Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture—situated almost in the exact center of the Chugoku region—the rose garden has reached peak bloom starting Wednesday, May 21, 2025!
Colorful roses are in full bloom, and each one is beautiful.

This rose garden was newly established in 2020 on roughly 400 square meters and features 118 varieties and 206 repeat-blooming rose shrubs. To enliven the north area and enhance the garden’s appeal, we began collaborating with rose enthusiasts from Shobara City in July 2024 to improve fertilization, perform detailed pruning, and train plants on arches and fences as part of ongoing cultivation and maintenance.
We have added varieties such as Michelangelo and Christian Dior to further enrich the rose garden. The garden is expected to be at its best from mid-May through late July and again from mid-October through late November.

Blooming information (as of May 21)
Name: Roses
Varieties currently in bloom: Peace, Queen Elizabeth, and many others
Bloom condition: Peak bloom
Blooming period: Mid-May to late July; early October to late November

Basic facility information
Location: Inside Kokuei Bihoku Hillside Park, Satoyama Station Shobara Furari
Address: 4-10 Mikkaichicho, Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture 727-0021
Contact: Kokuei Bihoku Hillside Park TEL 0824-72-7000
Website: For details, check the official Kokuei Bihoku Hillside Park website!

【✨The irises along Nogu River are at their best🏔】
As the moss phlox at Nogu River Riverside Park finishes, the irises lining Nogu River have come into full bloom😊 Bright azaleas are blooming alongside them🌺 and the snow-capped Northern Alps are visible upstream🏔
🌺Flower update 2025🌼 is below🔽🔽🔽
https://kanko-omachi.gr.jp/news/88859/

🌸"Gokase Hanami 2025" Voting Now Open🌸【Until Friday, June 6, 2025!】

Thank you all for entering "Gokase Hanami 2025"!
We held a strict first-round screening by the tourism association staff and selected 12 entries from all submissions🙏✨

From these 12 entries, we would like you to vote to decide the final winners🤩👏

Among those who vote, 10 people will be chosen by lottery to receive local specialties from Gokasecho as a gift🎁💫 We appreciate your participation🙇‍♀️

Here is how to vote💡

【Voting period: Until Friday, June 6, 2025】
⚠️You may vote by only one of the methods below, one time per account or one time per person.

<If voting via Google Form>
・Go to the "voting form" using the URL below
https://forms.gle/uBpw7C7xFDsDKBo2A
・Enter your email address (required). You may optionally provide your name.
・Choose one of the 12 entries, check the box for that entry, and submit your response.
⚠️No login is required, but an email address is mandatory, so please note this in advance.

<If voting via Instagram>
・Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/
・From the post with the hashtag #Gokase Hanami 2025 Voting, choose one of the 12 featured entries and send the photo number by direct message or comment✍
⚠️If you do not follow our account, message exchange may be unreliable and you will be excluded from the gift lottery. Please be aware.

<If voting at a polling location>
・Vote at polling stations set up at Gokasecho Town Hall, Gokase Onsen Mori no Yado Kijiya, or the mobile vendor "Gokase Marche" truck.
・Choose one of the 12 entries, write the entry number, your name, and your email address on the voting slip, and place it in the voting envelope.

Additionally, a polling station will be set up at Gokase Secondary Education School in collaboration with the Gokase Sakura Project, and students will also be participating in voting💪✨

⚠️If your email address is missing or illegible due to poor handwriting, you will be excluded from the gift lottery. Please understand.

Please be sure to view the original posts by the entrants before you vote🤗

1 @sokoatari.urouro (photo 1)
2 @fowafuwarin5 (photo 2)
3 @ 920cherry71 (photo 3)
4 @_yuta610 (photo 4)
5 @1230fuukeinoturishi (photo 5)
6 @8215dr72 (photo 6)
7 @code_name_cross_fire (photo 7)
8 @sakai_0808 (photo 8)
9 @reoron001219 (photo 9)
10 @hisabou1958 (photo 10)
11 @landscape133_22 (photo 11)
12 @omilove.1203 (photo 12)

We look forward to receiving many votes from everyone🥰

The tulips at Shichiku Garden are reaching their peak bloom 🌷
The garden offers free loaner hats decorated with flowers in a range of colors.
Return to your childhood—put on a hat, take photos, and stroll around the grounds.
On sunny days they also provide shade!! 👒

📌Good deals
If you plan to visit three gardens, the “Tokachi Flower Tour Common Ticket” is a great value!!
You can use it at any three of the six eligible gardens in the Tokachi area.♪
[Price] Three-garden admission ticket: ¥2,000
[Validity] April 26, 2025 (Saturday) to October 13, 2025 (Monday, national holiday)
[Eligible gardens] Shichiku Garden, Manabe Garden, Tokachi Hills, Tokachi Millennium Forest, Rokka no Mori, Nakasatsunai Art Village Garden
[Where to buy] Each garden, Tokachi Tourist Information Center (Obihiro Station ESTA East Building 2F), Tokachi Gardens Hotel, Premier Hotel - CABIN - Obihiro, Hokkaido Hotel, Kangetsuen, Sasai Hotel, Dai-ichi Hotel, Daiheigen, Marimo Hire

📌Shichiku Garden
[Open period] April 19 (Saturday) to October 31 (Friday)
[Hours] 8:00–17:00
[Closed] Open every day during the season
[Admission] Adults (high school and older) ¥1,000, elementary and junior high students ¥200, preschoolers free
[Access] About 35 minutes by car from Obihiro Station, about 20 minutes by car from Obihiro Airport, about 15 minutes by car from Roadside Station Nakasatsunai

https://shichikugarden.com/

Toyooka Iris Garden is still in full bloom.
Over 200 varieties of iris set against the scenic Ina Valley.
Please enjoy your visit.

For more details about the Iris Garden, see below:
https://www.vill-nagano-toyooka-kanko.jp/tourism/tourist-spot/hana/3280/

Spring is in full swing! In Taiki Town, the flower season has truly begun.
Shibazakura (moss phlox) are at their best on Mount Mewa! Around Sakashita Senkyo and at Taiki Shrine, we found a variety of flowers.

The last two photos show new leaves sprouting beneath the withered kashiwa oak leaves still clinging to the branches!

https://visit-taiki.hokkaido.jp/

The hydrangeas blooming in the tea plantation in the sky were wonderful.

Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture

2024/7 gifu
Shot on iPHONE 11 PRO

Photographed on April 12, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Naritasan Kawagoe Betsuin.

Photographed on April 12, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Photographed on April 12, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

May 13, 2025 Takashima Castle Wisteria

On this day, foodie KAWANISHI visited the wisteria at Takashima Castle (Takashima Park).
This year, I came to see the wisteria at Takashima Castle again! I think it will finish blooming by the end of this week.
At Takashima Castle, two rows of wisteria trellises stand side by side, and there are wisteria over the pond as well. The colors are stunning, with a beautiful contrast of purple and white!!! Usually, they reach their best around Golden Week.

🌺 【Best time to visit the flowers of the Brushwood tree】 🌺
The "Brushwood", which is characterized by its unique flower appearance like a red brush, has begun ✨ to bloom vividly this year
The way it sways in the wind is also beautiful, and you can't help but stop and look at it.
If you're in the area, be sure to take a look ☺️

📍 Filming location
・Izumi Station East Exit Ryokuchi Park
・646-5 Kamisababuchi, Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture

Photographed on April 12, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

"Fairy Tale Village Takinoue Moss Phlox Festival Flower Migration Markets" Held in on May 18th!

At "Moss Phlox Takikami Park", where the Moss phlox is in best time to visit, the "Flower Migration Markets" will be held in. Engaru Town will also participate in this Events along with Monbetsu City!
Held in a photo session with local characters and a quiz contest (prizes will be won for those who answer correctly) at the venue on the day of the event.
In addition, at the Engaru Town booth, Specialty products will be sold (Geo Ice, Black Noodles, Shirayosha Tenuki Rice Sauce Series, etc.) and a limited number of experiences (obsidian key chain making 500 yen charged).
Events to take place in the view of a vast and wonderful flower field! Please come and visit us ♪

Date & Time: May 18 (Sun) 10:00~14:00
Venue: Moss Phlox Takikami Park (Motomachi, Takinoue Town, Monbetsu District)

Photographed on April 9, 25.
This is Hanachozu from Hara Flower Shop.

Location: Kamimikawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture Taken in early May

On a walk with my cat Chai
On the side of the road, there is a large number of "white clover" flower fields that I have not seen in the previous year...!
Shooting with the sunset & with the cat 📸
A small view that shines in the Nature of Japan!

Actually, this "white clover"
Famous for its non-native species and abnormal reproduction.
The reason why it is blooming so much this year is that a farmer in the neighborhood is conducting an experiment to see if it will increase if you give it plenty of sun.
At a later date, I was ✋ driven by mowing the grass

Beautiful plants and flowers that are often seen in daily life.
The scenery I saw in this way was engraved with the history of "white clover" that has been breeding until now!

Shiraiwa Mountain Opening 🌸

Today (May 11), the Shiraiwa Mountain Opening was held at the Gokasecho Highland Ski Area Parking Center😊

A Shinto ceremony took place on the mountain, with organizers and other attendees praying for safety while enjoying the crisp mountain air👏

After the ceremony, those who wished began climbing toward the rhododendron colony💪

Azaleas, Okamenoki, yama-shakuyaku (mountain peony), and rhododendrons appeared to be in full bloom💡

⚠ Notice ⚠
From May 12, Reiwa 7, the town road Hon-yashiki/Hagi Line and the Hagi Forest Road, which provide access to the Goboubatake trailhead (Shiraiwa Mountain, Mukaisakayama, and Kiridachigoe), will be closed to all traffic until further notice due to road disaster recovery work.
To reach Shiraiwa Mountain, Mukaisakayama, and Kiridachigoe, please use the Ogawadake: Tenyabo trailhead (road subsidence, many falling rocks, rough road).

Photographed on April 15, 25.
It is the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
The cherry blossoms had fallen and turned into leaf cherry blossoms. The petals of the cherry blossoms floated on the surface of the water and were very beautiful.

【🌸 Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 — Featured Submissions, Part 12 — 🌸】

The submission period finally ends today, Sunday, May 11. We’re showcasing entries to “#Gokase Flower Viewing 2025,” currently running on the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.💪❤️‍🔥

@hanpenpen2022
@goto0619
(in no particular order)

This time’s photos show the Akebono azaleas on Mt. Futagami and the white flowers in Kuraoka…what kind of flowers are those, I wonder?🤔 Everyone clearly knows well when and where different flowers bloom, and many have personal memories and attachments to these blooms. Those feelings seem to shine through in the photos — they’re truly lovely.✨

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“#Gokase Flower Viewing 2025” also ends today, Sunday, May 11!👏 If you meant to enter but haven’t yet, don’t miss the chance — submit before you forget!💡❗

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

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

【Period】From Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Sunday, May 11, 2025

⚠️Other terms and conditions appear 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 great care to avoid accidents while photographing.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the Bonshō bell and cherry blossoms of Lotus Temple.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the cherry blossom of Lotus Temple.
The cherry blossoms are also wonderful.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
The cherry blossoms were beginning to fall, and a flower raft was being formed.

At the Arao Omoyai Civic Flowerbed, rose viewing events take place twice a year in spring and autumn!


Location: Beside Arao City Oshima Purification Center
(Oshima 4-chome 1-73, Arao City)

Admission: Free

Opening hours
April to September 7:00–18:00
(Roses typically bloom from late April through June)
October to March 7:00–17:00
(Roses typically bloom from late October through November)

Notes for visitors
There are no restrooms on the grounds.
Be careful: the ground can become muddy in rainy weather.

Access
Due to the extension work on the Ariake Coastal Road, the entrance and exit for the Omoyai Civic Flowerbed will be changed from January 9, 2024 (Reiwa 6) for the time being.
Please take care when visiting.
Follow the directions on the on-site information boards for passage.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
A flower raft was made.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
In the raft, the boatman was practicing.

Josenji Temple with Azaleas in Bloom

In spring, Josenji Temple bustled with many cherry-blossom viewers.🌸

Now the petals have fallen, and the weeping cherry trees with fresh green leaves are beautiful.✨

Azaleas bloom across the temple grounds, and the contrast between the new greenery and the vermilion flowers is delightful.😆

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
In front of the Hikawa Kaikan, a flower raft was made.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
A flower raft was made.