At Herb Garden Ohkawara you can purchase about 100 varieties of herb and seasonal flower seedlings, as well as items like umeboshi dried plums made from fruit grown on site. Besides plum blossom viewing and lavender flower picking, visitors can enjoy herbal tea and homemade cake at the annexed to café.
"A nature park located on a 236-meter high mountain in Kamo County, Shizuoka Prefecture. It is known as a great place for plum trees. From January to February every year, you can observe about 300 plum trees in 10 varieties, including the ""Yaekan plum"" and the ""Yaechasei"" in the plum orchard. During the season, you'll find many flower-viewers bustling about."
Kadokouen, famous for its fireflies and ume (Japanese apricot) blossoms, is integrated with the Tottori Toshogu Shrine forest, and visitors can relax and enjoy the beautiful scenery at the Ume Koian (Japanese apricot hermitage) located within the park.
"This forest of plum trees is the most beautiful in the San'in region and consists of some 2,000 ""Nokyo Bungo"" plum trees, a variety which originated in Yurihama Town. From early to late March each year, the plum tree carpet the area with beautiful pink blossoms."
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About 5,000 plum trees burst into bloom from late February to early March across the Mt. Ushio area. During the season, plum growers and local residents in the Sanri area hold a plum blossom festival every year. At that time there's a stage with various events, sales of specialty products made with plums, and other activities. It's held at the center of Ushinoo Plum Grove; there's a 20-car parking lot, but during the festival, traffic is restricted, and a shuttle bus operates.
This plum garden spreads along the old Hagi Okan road, which saw over many of the great figures, patriotic samurais of the Restoration. The garden spreads over about 9,600 square meters, and has about 350 trees of 13 varieties. It was opened in 1992 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Yoshida Shoin's birth. The scarlet-plum type double-blossomed Hi no Tsukasa is the earliest bloomer, and after it comes the single-bloom Bungo Japanese plum, weeping plum Gyokko Shidare, and others to bring the trees to brilliant color. Most years, the peak season is from late February through mid-March. The Hagi Okan Plum Garden festival coincides with full-bloom.
The park is located about 20 minutes by car from the Yoshida Interchange on the Tomei Expressway. 700 plum trees are planted on the 1.5 hectare mountain slope. During the opening period, there is a log cabin for rest and a store selling oden, amazake (sweet sake), homemade pickled plums, etc.
This famous destination for plum trees is located in Kobune Kiwa-cho, Kumano City. Some 700 plum trees grow in a 1.2-hectare area, and from late February through early March, visitors can enjoy the beautiful sight of their blossoms. There's also a campground nearby.
This famous destination for Japanese plum trees is located in Takabatake-cho, Nara City. Located in Nara Park, some 250 Japanese plum trees have been planted around the area of the Marumado-tei, a National Important Cultural Property-designated structure which was created by remodeling the storehouse of Kasugataisha Shrine. In most years, the plum trees bloom from late February to mid-March.
The park is located in the Shimoyamada district of Kama City and is known as a famous ume (plum) viewing spot with approximately 1,000 ume trees planted in the park, usually from mid-February to mid-March.
"A shrine in the Miyanojin region of Kurume City. The ""Shogunbai"" plum tree planted on the grounds of the shrine is said to have been hand planted by Prince Kanenaga who served as the head of the Office of the Subjugation of the West during the Nanbokucho period (1336-1392). It is the largest plum tree in the city. The best time to visit is usually mid-March."
A well-known plum grove in the Tanigawa area of Tachibana-machi, Yame City. Almost 30,000 white plum trees are spread out over a hillside grove covering nearly 80 hectares and the best time to catch them in bloom is from mid to late February. The Yume Tachibana Plum Viewing Event is held in concert with the blooming season. Also, worth visiting is the Bamboo Lantern Illusionary World in which a wine cellar near the plum grove that was used as a wartime hangar is illuminated and opened to the public.
A Japanese style garden in the Koishi region. Originally a natural garden maintained by a local individual after the owner passed away local volunteers cared for the garden and planted plum trees and other plants. The 30,000-tsubo (nearly 100,000 square meters) plot is now home to a variety of seasonal plants including almost 1,000 plum trees as well as hydrangeas, ginkgo trees, and more. Attached to the garden is a houseplant botanical garden.
A famous plum grove in Hata, Yahatanishi Ward, Kitakyushu City. The grove is located upstream from the Shiraki Reservoir and is home to nearly 1,200 plum trees covering 30 different varieties. From early February to mid-March you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the plum grove in bloom.
About 10 minutes by car from the Sumoto IC on the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, this nature park, the 27th temple of Awaji-Hanahenro, is a restored ume (plum) grove in the Hirota district, which has long been famous for its ume (plum) blossoms. 450 ume trees are planted on an approximately 15,000 square meter site, including Nanko and Yushijuku ume trees that bear fruit as well as flowering ume and weeping ume trees. In spring, 50 Someiyoshino cherry trees are in full bloom, and the park is also popular as a cherry blossom viewing spot.
