Higashimokoto Shibazakura Park (ひがしもこと芝桜公園) is a famous Shibazakura viewing spot in Hokkaido. The park is situated in the small town called Ozora Town in Abashiri District. The 10 ha tremendous hill park offers a spectacular view of Shibazakura flourish beautifully during the season.
How do I get to Shibazakura?
The Fuji Shibazakura Festival site is accessible by bus from Kawaguchiko Station. If coming by train, get off at Kawaguchiko Station, and catch a bus to the festival, which usually takes around 30 minutes. For those driving, the Kawaguchiko Interchange is about 25 minutes drive away.
What is the Fuji Shibazakura festival?
Fuji Shibazakura Festival is an annual flower festival, held close to Lake Motosuko, and the most popular place to enjoy almost endless fields of shibazakura, a pink flower, also called moss phlox. with the stunning Mount Fuji as the backdrop.
How do you get from Shibazakura to Tokyo?
By direct highway bus from Tokyo During the duration of the festival, Fujikyu operates one highway bus round trip per day between Shinjuku and the festival site. The one way trip takes three hours and costs 2450 yen. Advance reservations are required.
How do you get to Higashimokoto from Shibazakura Park?
The park is easily accessible either by a 45-minute drive from Abashiri City center or a 30-minute drive from Memanbetsu Airport. When the pink moss phlox flowers are in bloom, visitors come by car and bus from all over Japan, and in recent years it has become a popular sightseeing spot with foreign visitors.
Where is the Fuji Shibazakura festival?
The venue of the festival is located about three kilometers south of Lake Motosuko in the Fuji Five Lakes area, offering breathtaking views of vast fields of shibazakura, with Mount Fuji in the backdrop on clear days. The festival is typically held from mid April through early June.
What is the Fuji Shibazakura Festival?
Fuji Shibazakura Festival is the biggest Shibazakura (moss phlox) festival of all areas around Tokyo. It’s yearly held at Fuji Motosuko Resort (富士本栖湖リゾート) located near Motosu Lake, one of the Fuji Five Lakes. This resort has more than 800,000 moss phloxes on the extensive site of roughly 2.4 hectares.
What month do Shibazakura bloom in Japan?
From mid April through to the end of May 800,000 shibazakura flowers (pink moss or phlox moss) come into bloom near Lake Motosu in the Fuji Five Lakes region. This produces vivid patterns of pink, purple, blue, and white—all set against the backdrop of Mount Fuji.
What is Fuji Shibazakura Matsuri?
Fuji Shibazakura Matsuri is a flower festival held near Lake Motosu, at the foot of Mount Fuji, located in Fujikawaguchiko, in Yamanashi prefecture in Japan. The 2.4 hectares park amazes visitors in spring with 800,000 shiba-sakura flowers blooming during one month from mid-April.
What is Shibazakura (pink Moss)?
Shibazakura (pink moss or phlox moss in English) is one of the most popular spring flowers in Japan, and numbers of Shibazakura flower events are held across Japan during the season including Hokkaido. The vivid contrast of the pink moss and Hokkaido’s blue sky is simply breathtaking.
