Spring in Japan: Wonderful Wisteria & Billions of Exquisite Blooms
If you’ve just been through the mother of all winters, then hang in there.
Eventually, all the long hard winters give way to spring.
We’ve looked at Europe, where gorgeous bluebells carpet the woods, but
winter in Japan gives way to a cheerful springtime bonanza of cherry blossoms.
There are also pathways among millions upon millions of exquisite blooms,
wonderful hanging wisteria and wisteria tunnels that are like something out
of a dream. We hope you like these photos of springtime in Japan.
The USA’s long hard winter is about to give way to spring. While you wait,
this wisteria tunnel is a gorgeous example of spring in Japan at Kawachi
Fuji Gardens.
Purple wisteria at Ashikaga Flower Park. The photographer wrote,
“There are about 160 wisterias in Ashikaga Flower Park which are over
60 years old.” Another has reached a respectable age of 144 years.
In spring, cherry blossoms and plum blossoms take center stage in Osaka Castle Park.
Here are cherry blossoms blooming in front of the central Osaka Castle tower.
Endless fields of purple flowers in foreground, Mount Fuji still capped with snow in the background.
Field of flowers at Hitachi Seaside Park. In the spring, about 4.5 million
blooming baby blue-eye flowers draw tourists to the 470-acre (190
hectares) public park.
From mid-April to mid-May, Ashikaga Flower Park wows visitors with giant
“living” screens of wisteria, hanging from trellises and grouped in clusters
like living art. Light pink blooms first in the season, followed by purple wisteria,
white and then yellow.
Don’t let the windmill fool you; this tulip festival was in Sakura City, Japan.
Couple strolling under wisteria tunnel. Prime time to go see Kawachi Fuji
Gardens is from late April to early May. There are 150 wisteria plants
with 20 different species blooming during the Wisteria Festival (Fuji Matsuri).
Massive blooming Sakura tree. The Japan Cherry Blossom Association
has created a list of Japan’s Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots, with at
least one location in every prefecture.
Spring in Japan. Fuji Shibazakura (Moss phlox) Festival is held at the
foot of Mount Fuji from mid-April to the beginning of June each
year. If you can’t jet over to Hitsujiyama Park to see it in person,
then you might like to check it out via webcam or 360° view.
Cherry blossoms and blue boats in Tokyo.
Annual “Nemophila Harmony” display at Hitachi Seaside Park during May.
In addition, the park features a million daffodils, 170 varieties of tulips,
Serpent Garden at Showa Kinen Park in Tokyo, Japan.
Hanging clusters of eye candy. While Ashikaga Flower Park is famous
for its huge wisteria harbors, the 20-acre park also has “a wide variety o
f flowers and trees that it is worth seeing in any season: plum blossoms
in Feb-Mar, hydrangeas in Jun-Jul, lotus flowers in
May-Oct, purple sage in Oct-Nov, and roses in May-Jun and Sep-Nov.
Lights adorn the trees in midwinter.”
Breathtaking beauty at Ashikaga Flower Park. Did you know wisteria, or “fuji,” is in the pea family?
Japan in the spring. Ashikaga Flower Park believes that “giant” wisteria
hanging from a trellis is “the most beautiful wisteria in the world.”
Cherry Blossoms lining the street in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Fuji volcano capped with snow while cherry blossoms bloom beside a pagoda at Tokyo, Japan.
There are walkways among the 800,000 phlox flowers at Shibazakura Park Ozora.
There are five different colors of phlox at “moss hill” Shibazakura Park,
Japan: some of the flowers have darker pink petals, others have
“scarlet flame,” rose pink, striped and even white petals.
Wisteria trellis: What started with 4 “giant” wisteria vines in 1996, has
grown to nearly 11,000 sq feet (1,000 sq m) of wisteria to wow you
at Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan.
Wisteria in Okazaki Park.
Hanging garden: The photographer wrote, “No sooner do the sakura
start to fall and the wisteria start to come out.
They kind of look like grapes, don’t they? This garden happens to be
the best one for wisteria that I’ve yet visited in Japan!”
Wisteria canopy (HDR) at Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Giant wisteria hanging from canopies in Japan. Left: Jindai Botanical Garden. Right: Magical moment for the little girl.
People walk the paths of Nemophilia display at Hitachi Seaside Park.
Wisteria in Showa Kinen Park.
Wisteria trellis at Okazaki, Japan.
The photographer called this night shot of blooming trees a “Tunnel of love.”
Spring in Japan, flowers and Mount Fuji.
The Hill of Seasonal Colors, flower field at Shikisai park in Hokkaido, Japan,
Sunflower field at Asahigaoka tenbodai.
Akishima sunset, spring glow.