Ashikaga Flower Park (あしかがフラワーパーク)

One of the best places to view fuji flowers is the Ashikaga Flower Park (あしかがフラワーパーク) in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture. Ashikaga Flower Park features lots of blue, white and pink fuji, as well as yellow laburnum that look like yellow colored fuji.

One large Fuji tree is 100 years old and its branches are supported to create a huge umbrella of blue Fuji flowers. There is also a long tunnel of white Fuji flowers, while a tunnel of yellow laburnum needs a few more years to become an actual tunnel. Yae-Fuji, a variety with more than the usual number of petals, can also be viewed.

Besides the Fuji, you will find many other flowers, restaurants and a shop selling plants and local products. The entrance fee depends on the season's beauty and is around 1000 Yen per adult during the Fuji peak season.

The Fuji in Ashikaga Flower Park are usually in full bloom in the beginning of May, one to two weeks later than the Fuji of Tokyo. Because Ashikaga Flower Park is considered one of the best spots to view Fuji flowers in Japan, the park can be very crowded even on weekdays during the peak season.

In recent years, the park has also become very popular in the winter season for putting on a massive winter illumination display. Drawing larger and larger crowds every year, the park opens its gates every evening from early December to early February to let visitors wander through the elaborate exhibition.

Almost every corner of the park grounds are decorated in hundreds of thousands of multi-colored LED lights, covering flower bushes, lining walkways, and arranged into huge, creative objects and sets on an impressive scale. Some of the more eye-catching attractions include several large, continually-changing LED "screens" which cycles though creative imagery, music-synchronized light shows, light tunnels, and countless Fuji-like LED chains hung from the same lattices the flowers hang from in the spring.

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