The 21st annual Peach Blossom Festival Tokigawa was cancelled in 2021 due to Covid-19. Furthermore, it was the second year in a row that the event was cancelled on account of the pandemic. Hopefully it will be able to go ahead in 2021. Even though the festival wasn’t on, I droppedRead More →
Yamada Spring Festival is held annually in Chichibu. The date has not yet been confirmed for 2022. However, it is generally hosted in early March, usually on the second Sunday of the month. The festival is said to mark the coming of Spring. Unfortunately due to the efforts to curbRead More →
Tentative information for the 2021 Tsurugashima Splash Festival. The 2020 festival did not go ahead on account of the Coronavirus outbreak. The 2021 date has not yet been decided (September 2020). I will update closer to the time. Don’t worry if you missed the excellent Water Fight festival in OmiyaRead More →
Unfortunately, even though the sunflower fields were scheduled to open in 2021, they have since decided not to open the fields to the public in 2021. They have quoted the increasing numbers of Coronavirus as the reason. Hopefully it is not setting a precedent for other sunflower fields. The HasudaRead More →
Tobu Super Pool is one of the many offerings of what is officially called the Tobu Hybrid Park, but most commonly referred to as Tobu Zoo park. The pools are officially located in Shiraoka City, but as the vast majority of the Tobu Zoo park is in Miyashiro City theyRead More →
Saitama Summer Pools 2021 – where is open and where is not. For all 20 pools open in a ‘regular’ year and mapped on Google see here. Update July 29th 20:18 JST.Saitama Prefecture announced today that Saitama will be under a State of Emergency from Monday August 2nd to TuesdayRead More →
Kawajima Rose Season 2021 and Japan’s longest rose tunnel Japan’s longest Rose tunnel Heisei No Mori Park in Kawajima Town is home to the longest rose tunnel in Japan. It is 340 meters long, formed with close to 60 different varieties of 500 rambling roses resulting in thousands of blooms.Read More →
Every year Shinrin Park* host one of the longest “spring festivals”. They split it into two. The first part “Happy Spring Festival” is from mid February to the first week of April. Part two is the “Happy Spring Festa” which starts around mid April. Normally it runs until the endRead More →
The Azalea (Tsutsuji in Japanese) on Monomiyama bloom from around mid April to early May. In fact, its not uncommon to be able to see some azalea as early as end of March. However, the main / prime viewing period doesn’t start until mid April. Higashimatsuyama have not yet announcedRead More →
Historically this post was about the Horse Riding event in the Icelandic Poppy Fields of Shinrin Park (Musashi Kyuryo National Government Park), Namegawa Town, Saitama. However, in 2020 and 2021 due to the Coronavirus there is no horse riding events at Shinrin Park. For the record, most of the walkingRead More →