Best Events And Festivals (Omatsuri) In Hokkaido・Tohoku
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A huge hill of 23ha is covered with yellow. The scenery of 1.5 million sunflowers has become topic in Japan. Sunflower Festival is held until 8/20. Please come to the No.1 sunflower field in Japan!◎Entrance fee is free (Sunflower Maze is 300yen). Parking lot is ava
Name
Hokuryu Himawari-no Sato (Sunflower Field)
Address
143-2 Itaya Hokuryu-cho, Uryu-gun, HokkaidoGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
By bus, 30 min from JR Takigawa Station, or 180 min from Sapporo Terminal, to 'Hokuryu School'. By car, 120 min from Shin-Chitose Airport.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Winter Aomori Prefecture is very cold with much snow. But, you can enjoy winter festival in Hirosaki Castle Park. There7re many beautiful attractions such as snow lanterns, kamakura (snow dome), and illuminations!◎Access: bus is available from Hirosaki Station, and many parking lots around here for cars.
Name
Hirosaki Castle
Address
1 Shimoshirogane-cho, Hirosaki-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 10min from Hirosaki Station, 25 min from Owani Hirosaki IC. By bus, 15 min from Hirosaki Station, get off at 'Shiyakusho-mae (City Hall), then walk 4 min.
Ōmagari Firework Festival in Akita is one of the three biggest firework festivals in Japan. All spectators get so excited, and the festival becomes like a live music concert. The fireworks shot off as long as 700 meters have enough height and is really worth seeing. Let's visit all of the three biggest firework festivals in Japan!
Name
Omagari National Fireworks Competition
Address
2 Omagari Funaba-cho, Daisen-shi, AkitaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from JR Omagari Station
Parking
Free parking area is available
A beautiful temple shining in the gentle lights, and a Jodo-style Japanese Garden wrapped in the silence. The night Shiramizu Amida-do Temple is differ from that in daytime. We can experience the atmosphere of Heian Period of Japan. ◎Night Illumination in 2018: 11/3-11/11. Time: 17:30-20:30 (final enter 20:00)
Name
Shiramizu Amidado Temple
Address
219 Hirohata Uchigoshiramizu-machi, Iwaki-shi, FukushimaGoogle Map
Tel
0246-26-7008
Hours
8:30-16:00,8:30-15:30
Closed
4th Wed
Fee
Adult 500 yen、Child 300 yen
How to get there
20 min by bus from JR Iwaki city to Amidado, then 5 min walk. 90 min by car from Mito city.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Entsu'u-in Temple has just started the light-up of autumn colored trees. Though the trees remains green, the lights change its colors and makes good mood. I think momiji (Japanese maple tree) reflected on the water mirror will dye in red from now and fascinate us with its beautiful autumn colors.◎Addmission fee: 500 yen
Name
Entsu'u-in Temple
Address
67 Matsushima, Matsushima-cho, Miyagi-gun, MiyagiGoogle Map
Tel
022-354-3206
Hours
8:30-17:00
Fee
Adult 300 yen、Child 100 yen
How to get there
5 min walk from JR Matsushima Kaigan Station. By car or taxi, 40 min from Sendai Station, or 40 min from Sendai Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available
It was designed by a archest Toyo Ito who has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, that is to say the Nobel Prize of architecture.
Name
Sendai Mediatheque
Address
Kazuga-machi Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, MiyagiGoogle Map
Tel
022-713-3171
Hours
9:00-22:00
How to get there
Oni Hanabi (Demon's Firework) is a limited event on Thursdays and Fridays at Noboribetsu Onsen hot spring town. The demons appear from the darkness and dance for exorcism as a back ground of Jigokudani (Hell Valley). At the climax of the how, they spark the very strong fire works in hands! Together with the hot spring. it could be a great experience of your summer.◎This show is taken place on only Thursdays and Fridays, and not on weekends! If you have car, Jigokudani parking area is available. For people use public transportation, there's bus from Noboribetsu to Noboribetsu Onsen, but staying at Noboribetsu Onsen would be better.
Name
Jigokudani Observatory
Address
Noboribetsu Onsen, Noboribetsu-shi, HokkaidoGoogle Map
How to get there
By bus, 15 min from JR Noboribetsu Station, or 60 min from Shin Chitose Airport to Noboribetsu Onsen, then 10 min walk. By car, 60 min from Shin Chitose Airport. Toll parking area is available.
Takikawa Nanohana (Canola Flower) Festival, took place in Takikawa City of Hokkaido, is said to be the best one in Japan. Everyone, the splendid yellow scenery in the huge site, is worth while visiting. Canola Flower Festival is May 26th and 27th in 2018.◎Canola Flower Festival is May 26 and 27 in 2018. Canola Flower Week: May 23-29. During the week, Nanohana taxi, rental bicycle, observatory, and toll parking area are available. To get more details, please check the link.
Name
Takikawa Nanohana Festival
Address
Ebetsuotsu-cho, Takikawa-shi, HokkaidoGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 20 min from Takikawa IC, 30 min from Takikawa Station. During the festival, Nanohana Bus is available from Road Station Takikawa
2018 is a 5th time of Flower Carpet. Citizen volunteers make colorful flower carpet using petals grown in Hokkaido such as rose and carnation.◎Since this year, Photo View Spot has put to over look the flower carpet. Place: Kitasanjo Square (bynane: Akapura). Event date: 2018, 6/21-24. Illumination hours: 18:00-21:00. The last day on 24th, it opens till 16:30, and you can walk on the flower carpet during Free Walking 16:30-16:45.
Name
Kitasanjo Square (Akapura)
Address
4 Chome Nishi, Kita 3 Jo, Kitaku , Sapporo-shi, HokkaidoGoogle Map
How to get there
1 min from JR Sapporo South Gate. Just near Sapporo Subway Station
Shikaribetsu Lake Kotan is an icy village appears only in midwinter on the frozen lake surface. There're bar, open-air bath of ice, and even ice houses! We can enjoy the cold Hokkaido to our hearts' content. You need cars or bus to access here. We stay in the ice house (igloo) in the third pic, and rent sleeping bags and winter outfits, or we can run to the hotel when we're cold. The Milky Way can be seen before dawn in the late February.
Name
Shikaribetsu Lake
Address
Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi-cho, Kato-gun, HokkaidoGoogle Map
How to get there
By car or taxi, 80 min from Obihiro Airport, 60 min from Obihiro Station.
Akita Kanto Festival is one of the three great festivals in Tohoku Region. Held at the beginning of August, more than 270 sticks of Kanto, compared to ears of rice, go up all together. They hold 12meters Kanto on their waists, shoulders and foreheads, I get excited to see them very close!
Name
Akita Kanto Festival
Address
Kyokuhokusakae-machi, Akita-shi, AkitaGoogle Map
Aomori Nebuta festival is held every August. Powerful and huge Nebuta decorations walk around the town. You can enjoy even seeing them, but it'll be more exciting for anyone to join the festival and become a dancer's haneto costume!
Name
Aomori Nebuta Festival
Address
Hashimoto, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Called as a little Kyoto, Kakunodate in Akita Prefecture has welcomed the blooming season of cherry blossoms. They are proudly blooming at Hinokinaigawa Bank as long as 2 kilometers, and Samurai House Street, that are selected as one of the 100 best cherry blossom places in Japan.◎Sakura Festival 4/20-5/5 in 2018.
Name
Hinokinaigawa Bank
Address
Kakunodate-machi, Semboku-shi, AkitaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from JR Kakunodate Station. By car, 40 min from Omagari IC.
Canola Flower In May In Yokohama! Japan's Largest Canola Flower FieldCanola Flower Fastival Yokohama
It's not a famous Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, but it's Yokohama in Mutsu Peninsula, Aomori Prefecture. There're canola flower fields whose acreage for planting is the largest in Japan, and they become their best from the mid to the end of May! You can enjoy them with your five senses, such as canola flower maze and canola flower doughnut.◎This address shows the main place of Canola Flower Festival. There're flower fields in some other places, and, if it's sunny, you can see the Mt. Fukkoshieboshi and Mt. Kamafuse over the Mutsu Bay with canola flowers. A road station Yokohama's 'Nanohana Plaza' has some canola flower foods. To access here, you should ordinary use car, taxi, or bus. During some events, there's sometimes free shuttle bus available from JR Mustu Yokohama Station.
Name
Canola Flower Fastival Yokohama
Address
98-62 Mameda Yokohama-machi, Kamikita-gun, AomoriGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 120 min from Aomori Airport, 80 min from Shimodamomoishi IC, 80 min from Aomori Higashi (East) IC, or 15 min from Mutsu Yokohama Station. By bus, 50 min from Nohe Station to Mameda, then 20 min walk, or 40 min from Mutsu Bus Terminal to Mameda, then 20 min walk.
Fireworks are set off everyday on the frozen Akan Lake. No entrance fees. It's very beautiful and we can enjoy different atmosphere from summer. If you travel in the east Hokkaido, please visit here, too.
Name
Lake Akan
Address
Akanko Onsen Akan-cho, Kushiro-shi, HokkaidoGoogle Map
How to get there
By car or bus, 70 min from Kushiro Airport, 70 min from JR Kushiro Station, 240 min from Sapporo city.
Parking
Parking area is available
The biggest attraction of Sakata Firework Show is The Wide Starmine expanding as long as 2 km in width. With music, the colorful fireworks paint over the sky, it's very impressive moment.
Name
Sakata Firework Show
Address
Sakaeda Miyanoura, Sakata-shi, YamagataGoogle Map
How to get there
By car or taxi, 10 min from JR Sakata Station, 110 min from Yamagata Station, 70 min from Shinjo Station, or 110 min from Yamagata Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available
At Nebuta Museum WA RASSE just near Aomori Station, you can see Nebuta once used and the exhibitions to learn about it. Nebuta is beautiful as it is, what's more, you can have a chance to touch and see it closer,◎1 min walk from JR Aomori Station The admission fee is 600 yen.
Name
Nebuta Museum WA RASSE
Address
1-1-1 Yasukata, Aomori-shi, AomoriGoogle Map
Tel
017-752-1311
Hours
9:00-19:00
Fee
Adult 600 yen、Child 250 yen
How to get there
1 min walk from JR Aomori Station. 40 min by bus from Aomori Airport.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Higashimokoto Sibazakura Park has a large hill slope tinged with deep pink and light pink. Sibazakura (moss pink) Festival is hold till May 6. The scenery seen from the top observatory is splendid! You can see the great panoramic view of moss pink.◎Entrance fee: ¥500 Open: 8:00-17:00 During the festival, it'll be crowded on Sundays. Free shuttle bus from extra parking lots is available.
Name
Higashimokoto Sibazakura Park
Address
393 Higashimokoto Hirosue Ozora-cho, Abashiri-gun, HokkaidoGoogle Map
Tel
0152-66-3111
Hours
8:00-17:00
For Armor Horse Racing , the young people, wearing white headband without helmets, lead their horses by bridle in the manner of Otsubo. The scene of people and horses unifying together and running like winds with the flapping flags succeeded for generations, was so strong and impressive.◎Attentions when you see: be careful of heatstroke, for Soma is very hot and humid in summer. We must not look down the cavalcade from higher position, nor go cross the cavalcade
Name
Soma Horse Racing (Soma-no Umaoi)
Address
Hibarigahara, Gorai Haramachi-ku, Minamisoma-shi, FukushimaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from Haranomachi Station. 80 min by car from Fukushima city.
Parking
Free parking area is available