Beautiful Autumn Sunflowers in Konosu

There are at least four places you can usually see sunflowers the last week of September and / or start of October. Of course, it will depend on mother nature. And it will also depend on the cities and towns in which they are located to actually plant the flowers too! This post was written in 2021 to introduce one of the four of them and in my experience they are planted each year to bloom at the end of September. It is a tourist sunflower field with parking and facilities such as toilets. The other three are in Okegawa, the Fukuda area in Kawagoe and at Isanuma in Kawagoe. Update September 14th 2026: the sunflowers have started to bloom…

Tourist Sunflower Fields

The tourist sunflower fields introduced in this post are located in “Hana no Oasis” (flower oasis), in Konosu City, in the Ikoka area of Saitama Prefecture. If you are a regular reader, you might recognize the name. I have posted about the tulips and spring flowers at this garden before (here).

Hana no Oasis is a community garden. Moreover, according to the prefecture it is the birthplace of flower production in Konosu City. It is located in a rural area of Konosu amid dozens of paddy fields. The garden is landscaped through the seasons with seasonal blooms. Furthermore, it has plush lawn as its path between each section of the gardens, as you can see in the photo above. The garden isn’t particularly big, but it is very nicely landscaped and draws hundreds, if not thousands, of admirers in each season. However, as you can probably tell from the photos, there are a lot of eye sores in the background of this location. More so than usual I think with the large telephone and electricity wires. I did attempt to cut them out in the featured photo at the very top of the post, but I didn’t do a very good job!

Sunflowers at Hana no Oasis

The 47,000 sunflowers were planted across 3800 square meters in early August to bloom in October (2021 to 2024). But in 2025 and 2026 they are set to bloom the end of September to early October. There are four main sections, each with a different variety of sunflower. The varieties are Junior Smile, Valentine, Sungold and “dokonjo” sunflowers. The latter “Dokonjo Himawari” are a type of sunflower that are famous in Japan for blooming in Ishinomaki after the triple disaster, the Great East Japan Earthquake, in Tohoku in 2011. They grow tall often to two meters or more.

Free Sunflower Picking Event

During the period of the bloom they have a free sunflower picking event. In 2026, that is from public holiday Wednesday September 23rd to Friday October 2nd. Please note, that due to the persistent rain some of the sunflowers are flattened this year. They don’t provide any equipment, so bring your own scissors, for ease of picking.

Cosmos

There are also some cosmos in bloom in the garden. And beside the cosmos there is a small garden with various different seasonal flowers in bloom. Moreover, you can view 12 million cosmos just a 16 minute drive (or ride on the flower bus if you come by public transport) or a 23 minute cycle away.

Information

Access

There is free parking for 48 cars beside the garden. You can also park at the nearby Konosu flower center for free. It is a seven minute walk from the garden. There is parking (and public facilities such as toilets) for 300 cars there.

By public transport you can get a community bus “flower go” from Kita Konosu Station on the Takasaki Line. It costs 200 yen per adult, 100 yen for school aged children and it is free for children under 6 years old. Alight at Teraya Higashi bus stop「寺谷東団地」.