Aichi’s Famous Spring and Summer Flower Viewing Spots Special Feature
Aichi abounds with nature, and that nature puts on a spectacular flower show every spring and summer!
Tahara CityRapeseed and Cherry Blossom Festival
Enjoy Tahara’s colorful spring season
Experience the wonders of Japanese nature as the soft pink cherry blossoms and fields of bright yellow rapeseed blossoms vie for your attention. Join in the festivities celebrating this beautiful time of year.
Tahara Castle
- Visit the historic Tahara Castle ruins, now a history museum displaying a number of items designated national important cultural properties and materials related to the Tahara domain samurais and artist, Watanabe Kazan.
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Shinshiro CityShinshiro Rapeseed Blossom Festival
Brighten your day with fields of gold
The Shinshiro area welcomes the arrival of spring with fields aglow of bright yellow mustard, or rapeseed, blossom. The Kami-Hirai and the Omiya locations are especially worth seeing.
Thousand Rice Paddies of Yotsuya (Yotsuya Senmaida)
- The Yotsuya Senmaida terraced rice fields of Shinshiro are an incredible feat of farming engineering. What’s more, the over 1,200 rice paddies and surrounding areas come alive every spring with the flowering colors of the season as locals welcome you to their Rice Planting Festival!
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Toyota CityKaminaka Weeping Peach Blossoms
A vast hillside orchard with an astounding 3,000 weeping peach trees in bloom
Approximately 3,000 weeping peach trees flourish in the Asahi area's Kaminaka Town in Toyota City. Walking paths are lined with beautiful weeping peach blossoms for about one kilometer. Early to mid-April is usually the best time to view the flowers.
Toyone VillageMt. Chausu Highland Creeping Phlox Festival
See some spectacular creeping flox
Endless fields of bright pink, white, and purple flowering creeping phlox amaze all each year. Six varieties of spectacular specimens cover 22,000 square meters on the slopes of Mt. Chausu from May to June.
Konan CityKonan Wisteria Festival
Experience Japanese culture, samurai, and the symbolic wisterias of Konan
From mid-April to early May, over 60 wisteria trees of 12 species bloom in the Mandaraji Park, near famed Mandaraji Temple. Samurai parades and other cultural attractions take place during the Wisteria Festival.
Tsushima CityOwari Tsushima Wisteria Festival
Welcome to the Village of Waving Wisterias
Tsushima is known as the Village of Waving Wisterias. And what better a spot to host a glamorous festival displaying this beloved purple flower of Japan.
Tsushima Jinja Shrine
- Since ancient times, pilgrims to the grand Ise Jingu Shrine would also pay their respects at Tsushima Jinja Shrine, head of the over 3,000 Tsushima Jinja Shrines located across Japan. Tsushima City’s grand Tsushima Jinja Shrine dates back over 1,450 years and hosts the annual and spectacular Tsushima Tenno Festival.
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Chiryu CityHistoric Yatsuhashi Water Iris Festival
A famous spot to enjoy water irises
The water iris is Aichi's official flower! Visit the beautiful Yatsuhashi Water Iris Garden between late April and late May, joining over 120,000 tourists who come to enjoy the iris flowers that bloom annually. A variety of traditional cultural events also take place during the festival period.
