Category: Tochigi
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Ashikaga, 栃木県 日本
Ashikaga Flower Park’s famous wisteria is blooming early this year. The Fujinohana Monogatari Ofuji Festival 2022 in Tochigi will begin ahead of schedule on April 16, 2022
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Ashikaga Flower Park (video)
The 80m-long Shirafuji tunnel is designated as Tochigi Prefecture Natural Monuments. These are in full bloom from mid-April to mid-May 1. “Fuji no Hana Monogatari-Ofuji Festival-” will be held for a month.
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Ashikaga Flower Park
There is a breathtaking array of hanging wisterias and an exquisite flower garden for all four seasons. This flower garden creates a complete sense of the season. And the magnificence of nature with a wide range of plants and trees. The park’s highlight is the massive Japanese wisteria trellises in bloom from late April to […]
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A ‘Killing Stone’ Broke in Japan. Is a Demon on the Loose?
With so much wrong in the world. Should we suddenly be concerned about a nine-tailed fox demon that may be unleashed in a Japanese forest? The solution is partly dependent on your knowledge of old Japanese mythology. A volcanic rock broke in two in February in Nikko National Park, roughly 100 miles north of Tokyo. […]
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Nasu Sessho-seki Rock
Sessho-seki Rock is a dreadful and famous rock found in a harsh, lonely tract of land known as “the dry riverbed of the Sanzu River” in Tochigi Prefecture’s Nasu-yumoto Hot Spring region. The story of Sessho-seki Rock has been used in many ways as the topic of traditional Japanese entertainment such as Kabuki and other […]