Fuji Shibazakura festival

In the spring you can see the amazing scenery of the pink flower carpet of 800,000 moss phlox with Mount Fuji, 3776 meters Japan’s highest mountain.
This festival is held at Fuji Motosuko Resort near the lake Motosu (one of the Fuji 5 lakes) in Yamanashi prefecture.

What to see

I arrived here at 7:40a.m.
It took about 1hour and 40minutes from my home in Fujisawa city by the car.
(Before I left home, I checked the visibility of Mt.Fuji by Mount Fuji Web Cam)
People already made a long line to buy an admission ticket!

The staffs checked the ticket at the entrance gate.

There were free maps written in English,Chinese and Japanese.

By walking the pathway for 5 – 10 minutes,you can go to the main field.

So beautiful!!

The bank of the Ryujin-ike pond was especially crowded with people because it was the most beautiful photo spot.

You can take a picture at here like this.

Checkered pattern in 2019 was excellent.

View from the opposite side of Ryujin-ike pond.

富士芝桜まつり #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Besides the bank of a pond, there were many beautiful photo spot.

There are many fields with different flower pattern.

But I also like a carpet painted all in pink.

The view from observatory.
This is one of the most popular photo spot.

There were many sparsely bloomed place like this than I thought.

Mini mount Fuji was half bloomed.

Shoot mini Mount Fuji from distance on the opposite side.

Anyway I enjoyed the beautiful scenery very mush.
Other flowers such as Anemone and Muscari were gorgeous, too.

They have many food stalls and souvenir shops.
You can eat & buy various local specialties.

Ticket vending machine(English & Chinese are available) of the food stalls.

Free rest area.
You can eat foods that you bought in the shops and food stalls.

FUJIYAMA SWEETS cafe.
You can eat light meals and sweets with seeing beautiful scenery.

Foot bath(100 yen).

Public lavatory.

8 May 2019

8 May 2017

25 April 2016

Informations

The best time to see

Between the end of April to early May

Opening hour

8:00～17:00
No closing days during festival period.

Admission fee

600 yen for 1 adult.

Access

By Bus

Approx. 30 minutes by Shibazakura Liner shuttle bus from Kawaguchiko station of Fujikyu railway.
1-2 departures per hour.
A 2000 yen ticket includes the return bus fare and the admission fee.

By Car

30 minutes from Kawaguchiko IC, Chuo Expressway.
There is a parking lot for 1000 cars.
500 yen for a standard vehicle.

Chuo expressway

Parking lot