Best Spring Destinations In Kyushu・Okinawa
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Wisteria becomes full bloom around Golden Week Holidays in May at Kawachi Fuji Garden. The biggest highlight is this wisteria tunnel. By the way, all of the wisteria flowers are beautiful.
Name
Kawachi Wisteria Garden
Address
2-2-48 Kawachi Higashi-ku Yahata, Kitakyushu-shi, FukuokaGoogle Map
Tel
093-652-0334
How to get there
By car, 20 min from Otani IC, 20 min from Yamaji IC, 30 min from Yahata IC.
Nabegataki Fall have lighting show in every spring. Though the waterfall is so beautiful that it's called as 'curtain of water', when it's illuminated, you can possible to take pictures of more fantastic one.◎Entrance fee; 300 yen. The loghting show is held different terms in each year. In the past, it has held in Golden Week Holidays, or around the end of March.
Name
Nabegataki Fall
Address
Oguni-machi, Aso-gun, KumamotoGoogle Map
Hours
9:00-17:00
How to get there
By bus, 60 min from Aso Station to Yu Station, then take taxi for 15 min. By car, 45 min from Kokonoe IC, parking area is available.
Parking
Parking area is available
Sengan-en is a garden of the old Satsuma Clan since Edo Period. Outside the garden, there're beautiful blue Kinko Bay and big Sakurajima Mountain! You can see the scenery of Kagoshima such as cherry blossoms in spring. Also, they prepare massive kinds of local souvenir like Satsuma Kiriko Glass.
Name
Sengan-en Garden
Address
9700-1 Yoshino-cho, Kagoshima-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
099-247-1551
Hours
8:30-17:30
How to get there
By car, 20min from Kagoshima Chuou Station, 40min from Kagoshima airport, 10min from Sakurajima Ferry Pier, 30min from Aira IC. By bus, 30min from Kagoshima Chuou Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
The 300-year-old wisteria trees at Nakayama Kumano Shrine cover the entire surface, and it is a spectacular view. It is lit up at night and has a fantastic view.
Name
Nakayama Wisteria Flowers
Address
583-1, Nakayama, Yanagawa-shi, FukuokaGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min by car, from Chikugofunagoya Station
There's a cherry blossom tunnel from Nishi-hitoyoshi Station to Watari Station of Hisatsu Line. Amazingly, the trains and SL Hitoyoshi go through under this cherry blossom tunnel! By the way, it's very crowded with many people. Be careful!◎You can walk from Nishi-hitoyoshi Station, and enjoy walking under the cherry blossom tunnel. There's a convenience store (2015). There're not enough space for taking pictures. In 2018, the sighbord 'please refrain from taking pictures here' was set up near the inhabited railroad crossing.
Name
Nishi-hitoyoshi Station
Address
Shimoharada-machi, Hitoyoshi-shi, KumamotoGoogle Map
How to get there
Around Nishi-hitoyoshi Station.
You can enjoy fifty thousand azalea trees! From the observatory on the hill, you can see colorful azalea field, and it looks like a flower carpet when it becomes full bloom. Azalea fastival is held from March 4 to 21.
Name
Higashison Forest Azalea Garden
Address
861-1 Aza Taira Higashison, Kunigami-gun, OkinawaGoogle Map
In Aso, Noyaki (burning off dead grass) takes place on every March. Aso is covered with green in summer, but after the burning off dead grass, it becomes brown or black as coal. And the scenery has magnificent beauty which makes you feel like being in other country.
Name
Aso Kusasenri
Address
2391-15 Nagakusa, Aso-shi, KumamotoGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 20 min from JR Aso Station, 60 min from Kumamoto IC, 60 min from Aso Kumamoto Airport. By bus, 25 min from Aso Station to Kusasenri.
Carp Streamer Festival (Koi-nobori Matsuri) in Tsuetate Onsen town has a long history more than 30 years. About 3500 carp streamers decorated as long as 2 kilometers are swimming impressively in the stream of the sky! You can enjoy taking hot spring, eating a specialty Tsuetate Pudding, and seeing the streamers together!◎Carp Streamer Festival (Koi-nobori Matsuri) in 2018: 4/1-5/6 Illumination event: 19:00-22:00 Free parking area is available for 200 cars
Name
Tsuetate Onsen Carp Streamer Festival
Address
Tsuetate Shimojo Oguni-machi, Aso-gun, KumamotoGoogle Map
How to get there
By bus, 45 min from Hita Station to Tsuetate Onsen, then walk 3 min. Or 40 min by car from Hita IC of Oita Speedway.
Located at South Aso, Isshingyo Great Cherry Blossom is a famous place where many people visit in spring. To the scenery of an isolated cherry blossom tree, which is over 400 years old, and the canola flowers at the foot of it, I can say nothing but wonderful.
Name
Isshingyo Great Cherry Blossom
Address
3226-1 Nakamatsu Minami-Aso-mura, Aso-gun, KumamotoGoogle Map
How to get there
60min by car from Kumamoto IC. 15min walk from Makamatsu Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Yatsushiro Sea is located between the main island of Kyushu and Amakusa Islands, and has another name 'Shiranui (the lights like fireballs on the water surface) Sea'. Against the background such a blue sea, this cherry blossoms road is great for drive or hanami. It's also selected as one of the 100 best places of cherry blossom in Japan as Yunoko Cherry Line.
Name
Yunoko Cherry Line
Address
Yunoko Osako, Minamata-shi, KumamotoGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 15min from JR Shin Minamata Station, or 20min from Tsunagi IC.
Mt.Yufu-dake is a symbol of Yufuin. From now to early spring, it'll be nice to view it from a bank along Oita River flowing in the center of the town. The scenery of cherry blossoms that begin to bloom after canola flowers is famous as a location of TV dramas. You can enjoy the early spring in Kyushu Region.
Name
Mt.Yufu-dake
Address
108 Kawaminami Yufuin-cho, Yufu-shi, OitaGoogle Map
Tel
0977-84-3111
How to get there
