Aichi’s wide flat plains, rolling hills, plentiful water and sunshine are the ideal conditions for seasonal flower growing. Over half the Japan ornamental indoor plant market is held by Aichi Prefecture, and Aichi is Japan’s leading cultivator of roses, carnations, and chrysanthemums, and a wide variety of other popular flowers. Techniques for the growing of cyclamen and orchids have also been developed in Aichi. Here’s where best to enjoy seasonal flowers…
Enjoy seasonal flower spotting from spring to autumn, and in particular, see the sunflower fields from mid June. For 650 yen, you can cut and take home up to 10 seasonal flowers from Minamichita’s Hana Hiroba. Secateurs for cutting flowers are available for rent.
Spend the warmer months enjoying all manner of seasonal flowers including fields of cosmos and sunflower. Challenge yourself in the flower garden maze, enjoy the BBQ garden, see and pet the sheep, donkeys, pigs, goats, ducks, rabbits, bantams, guinea pigs and more. Try homemade ice cream made with milk from the farm’s cows.
Be amazed by the beauty of nature! From late September or early October, the banks of the Yakachigawa River in Handa turn a bright red as a carpet of over 3,000,000 native Cluster amaryllis flowers bloom along a 2km stretch. Occasionally white Cluster amaryllis bloom, and these are quite rare.
See over 2 million Cosmos flowers in full bloom every mid October to mid November along a 500m stretch of the Prefectural Route 280 highway in Minamichita’s Toyooka. The large white, pink and red cosmos are an absolute sensation!
