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Higashimokoto Shibazakura Festival

This festival showcases 10 hectares of vibrant pink moss phlox blooms and includes tour vehicles and traditional performances.

3–31 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOzora · Hokkaido

Park & Garden

Rojo Park

Park in Komatsu on the former third bailey of Komatsu Castle, home of Maeda Toshitsune, with a pond-stroll garden, a museum, an art museum and a library.

Komatsu · Ishikawa

Visual Art

Wara Art Festival

This festival transforms rice straw into massive sculptures created through collaboration between university students and local residents in Niigata.

29 Aug – 31 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNiigata

Park & Garden

Matsugasaki Park

Park on the site of Yonezawa Castle, seat of the Uesugi lords, with Uesugi Shrine at its centre and about 200 cherry trees along the moats.

Yonezawa · Yamagata

Seasonal Nature

Cosmos and Kochia Festa

About 150,000 cosmos and 3,600 kochia bushes cover a hill in the park at Suita in Osaka each October, with pink muhly grass and red buckwheat behind them.

3–30 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetSuita · Osaka

Park & Garden

Hirosaki Park

Park on the grounds of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori, with an original Edo-period keep, turrets and gates and about 2,600 cherry trees.

Hirosaki · Aomori

Illumination

ASAKUSA CULTURE & LIGHTS

Five nights of projection mapping on the main hall and gate of Sensoji in Tokyo, with the temple's closed garden and its hall of ema open alongside.

30 Oct – 3 Nov 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

A six-hectare strolling garden beside Hiroshima Airport, laid out in three zones that stand for the mountains, the countryside and the sea of Hiroshima.

Mihara · Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Shukkeien Garden

A daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.

Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

A Yokohama garden opened in 1906 by the silk merchant Hara Sankei, with historic buildings brought from Kyoto, Kamakura and Shirakawa-go.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Park & Garden

Sengan-en

The garden and villa of the Shimazu lords at Kagoshima, laid out in 1658 with Sakurajima and the bay borrowed as its scenery.

Kagoshima

Museum

Tokushima Castle Museum

The city museum on the site of Tokushima Castle's palace, telling the story of the Tokushima Domain and the Hachisuka family who ruled it.

Tokushima

Park & Garden

Naritasan Park

A garden of 165,000 square metres behind the main hall of Naritasan Shinshoji, with three ponds, a waterfall, poem stones and a calligraphy museum.

Narita · Chiba

Park & Garden

Rainbow Line Summit Park

A hilltop park above the five lakes of Mikata in Fukui, reached by lift or cable car, with terraces looking over the lakes and Wakasa Bay.

Mihama · Fukui

Observatory

Kirosan Observatory Park

A lookout by Kuma Kengo on a hill at the south end of Oshima in the Inland Sea, facing the three linked suspension bridges of the Kurushima Strait.

Imabari · Ehime

Park & Garden

Higashitakane Forest Park

A prefectural park in central Kawasaki with an evergreen oak wood, a rice paddy on the site of Yayoi fields and a buried Yayoi to Kofun village.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Park & Garden

Hirakiyama Park

A hilltop park on Hakatajima planted with about a thousand cherry trees, looking out over three of the bridges of the Inland Sea.

Imabari · Ehime

Park & Garden

Futami Seaside Park

A beach park on the Iyo Sea in Ehime, laid out for watching the sun go down, with stepped seating along the shore and a headland monument.

Iyo · Ehime

Festival

Higashimokoto Shibazakura Festival

This festival showcases 10 hectares of vibrant pink moss phlox blooms and includes tour vehicles and traditional performances.

3–31 May 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOzora · Hokkaido

Park & Garden

Rojo Park

Park in Komatsu on the former third bailey of Komatsu Castle, home of Maeda Toshitsune, with a pond-stroll garden, a museum, an art museum and a library.

Komatsu · Ishikawa

Visual Art

Wara Art Festival

This festival transforms rice straw into massive sculptures created through collaboration between university students and local residents in Niigata.

29 Aug – 31 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetNiigata

Park & Garden

Matsugasaki Park

Park on the site of Yonezawa Castle, seat of the Uesugi lords, with Uesugi Shrine at its centre and about 200 cherry trees along the moats.

Yonezawa · Yamagata

Seasonal Nature

Cosmos and Kochia Festa

About 150,000 cosmos and 3,600 kochia bushes cover a hill in the park at Suita in Osaka each October, with pink muhly grass and red buckwheat behind them.

3–30 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetSuita · Osaka

Park & Garden

Hirosaki Park

Park on the grounds of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori, with an original Edo-period keep, turrets and gates and about 2,600 cherry trees.

Hirosaki · Aomori

Illumination

ASAKUSA CULTURE & LIGHTS

Five nights of projection mapping on the main hall and gate of Sensoji in Tokyo, with the temple's closed garden and its hall of ema open alongside.

30 Oct – 3 Nov 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

A six-hectare strolling garden beside Hiroshima Airport, laid out in three zones that stand for the mountains, the countryside and the sea of Hiroshima.

Mihara · Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Shukkeien Garden

A daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.

Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

A Yokohama garden opened in 1906 by the silk merchant Hara Sankei, with historic buildings brought from Kyoto, Kamakura and Shirakawa-go.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Park & Garden

Sengan-en

The garden and villa of the Shimazu lords at Kagoshima, laid out in 1658 with Sakurajima and the bay borrowed as its scenery.

Kagoshima

Museum

Tokushima Castle Museum

The city museum on the site of Tokushima Castle's palace, telling the story of the Tokushima Domain and the Hachisuka family who ruled it.

Tokushima

Park & Garden

Naritasan Park

A garden of 165,000 square metres behind the main hall of Naritasan Shinshoji, with three ponds, a waterfall, poem stones and a calligraphy museum.

Narita · Chiba

Park & Garden

Rainbow Line Summit Park

A hilltop park above the five lakes of Mikata in Fukui, reached by lift or cable car, with terraces looking over the lakes and Wakasa Bay.

Mihama · Fukui

Observatory

Kirosan Observatory Park

A lookout by Kuma Kengo on a hill at the south end of Oshima in the Inland Sea, facing the three linked suspension bridges of the Kurushima Strait.

Imabari · Ehime

Park & Garden

Higashitakane Forest Park

A prefectural park in central Kawasaki with an evergreen oak wood, a rice paddy on the site of Yayoi fields and a buried Yayoi to Kofun village.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Park & Garden

Hirakiyama Park

A hilltop park on Hakatajima planted with about a thousand cherry trees, looking out over three of the bridges of the Inland Sea.

Imabari · Ehime

Park & Garden

Futami Seaside Park

A beach park on the Iyo Sea in Ehime, laid out for watching the sun go down, with stepped seating along the shore and a headland monument.

Iyo · Ehime

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