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Saku balloon festival

Force perfection! The multicolored hot air balloon with the abundant individuality colors the sky.

The domestic outstanding hot air balloon meeting by which Saku-shi, Nagano is held along Chikuma-gawa during a Golden Week period every year.
"It's an impression for children!" natural wonderful and beauty of Shinshu are reported to children through a hot air balloon in a theme. A highlight, domestic and abroad, flight confrontation of highlights by the hot air balloon pilot of top level who gathered. A multicolored hot air balloon beyond 40 planes soars to the sky from vast high plain in Sakudaira. The memory which isn't forgot for whom, either would Experience which sees a hot air balloon imminently be? Additionally the department which can learn mechanism of a hot air balloon and kite making, a Experience event in the classroom is also opened. Without the fact mistakes which can be enjoyed by everyone from a child to an adult.

▼ Saku balloon festival
Date: Sunday, May 3, 2026-Tuesday on the 5th
A meeting place: Chikuma-gawa sports exchange square
The charge: Free entrance
Telephone: 0267-62-3285
URL:https://www.city.saku.nagano.jp/kanko/kanko/balloon_fes_2026/index.html

Saku balloon festival

• 505-1, Naruse, Saku-shi, Nagano Chikuma-gawa sports exchange square MAP
• It's a car from JRKaruizawa station, about 45 minutes
• 0267-62-3285
• Free

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Karuizawa Thalia Sen

It's satisfied with a nature of Karuizawa and contest of a mountain cherry.

Leisure Property which is located in the south Karuizawa and circles Shiozawa lake. A garden where a rose blooms, a historical building, a shop and Restaurant are collected in the vast site, and many people visit a season unrelatedly.
A seen cherry tree, a mountain cherry is the mainstream. The cherry tree tree which makes a flower of dark pink bloom can equal lakeside and be satisfied with grand nature of Karuizawa against the background of Asama. The Weeping forsythia by which vivid yellow catches eye and flowers of Kobushi magnolia with an elegant white petal as well as a salted cherry leave also begin to bloom in early spring, and a spring landscape colored dimly can be enjoyed.

[Bloom time] at the middle of ordinary year April.
[Cherry tree best time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[The kind of cherry trees] big mountain cherry

Karuizawa Thalia Sen

• Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Karuizawa town large section of a town, Nagakura 217 MAP
• It's a car more than JRKaruizawa station, about 10 minutes
• I get off a Karuizawa town Circular Route Bus (the east and southerly line) outside move ride for about 25 minutes "Kazakoshi park" more than JRKaruizawa station, about 15 minutes on foot
• 9:00-17:00 (for 12 and January, 10:00-16:00)
• The regular holiday-lessness
  ※ Please check it at here for details.
• An adult of 900 yen and a dwarf (small size and junior high school student), 400 yen
  Peynet museum of art (Admission is included.) An adult of 1100 yen and a dwarf of 500 yen
  Karuizawa high plain library 800 yen for an adult of children 400 yen※ admission is special.
  Floral museum of art in Kouko Fukasawa field 600 yen for an adult of children 300 yen※ admission is special.
  A museum set ticket (Floral museum of art in admission, Peynet museum of art, a Karuizawa high plain library and Kouko Fukazawa field is included.) adult of 1600 yen and a dwarf of 800 yen
  ※ The infant (0-5 years old) is free both.
• 0267-46-6161
• Payment required

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Yagasaki park

The pink weeping cherry different in the shade is must-see.

The park where it's in the location of about 5 minutes on foot from Karuizawa station. There are a wide ground and a big pond a sucker swims when it becomes warm, in addition to various playground equipment, and a family visits much in a holiday. It's possible to look at the pile of 2, an isolated mountain and Asama at the same time from a park.
There is about 50 of Sakuranamiki on a byway following Taiga hole it neighbors, and there is an impression for a pink weeping cherry tree which is also different in the inside from the dark color to the light color. It would be better to spend some time done freely while being wrapped in a cherry tree because a bench is installed just below the tree.

[Bloom time] by the end of ordinary year April
[Cherry tree best time] at the end of ordinary year April.
[The kind of trees] a big mountain cherry, a Someiyoshino cherry tree and a weeping cherry tree.

Yagasaki park

• Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Karuizawa town Karuizawa eastern 28-1 MAP
• On foot than JRKaruizawa station, about 7 minutes
• 24 hours
• Open everyday
• Free
• 0267-45-8582
• Free (less than 2 hours).

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Setsuso (I'll cut.), park

They're sold in a tunnel in Sakura where a petal soars.

A next door neighbor in the Karuizawa town and Setsuso park where Miyota-machi (MIYOTA MACHI) is located in the center mostly are a typical flower viewing spot in the town. There is a "tunnel of" a cherry tree which has formed in the park in Sakuranamiki, and it's also recommended to set ten walks slowly while walking under the tunnel. When I look up on a day of a clear sky, light pink in deep blue sky and Sakura would show me an excellent contrast.
A season of a cherry tree, it's possible to lay a leisure seat out and enjoy flower viewing with the family and my friends because an open turf feels it's wide.

[Bloom time] at the middle of ordinary year April.
[Cherry tree best time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[The kind of trees] a mountain cherry.

Setsuso park

• Miyota-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano large section of a town Miyota 4107-42 MAP
• It's a car more than JRKaruizawa station, about 20 minutes
• 24 hours
• Open everyday
• Free
• 0267-32-3129
• Free

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Komoro ruin of the castle recall garden

Small, several, peculiar Yae, the famous place for beautiful cherry blossom history by which kurenaiedasui blooms is

The Nagano which is also elected by a meeting of a public interest incorporated foundation Japanese cherry tree in "100 elections of Japanese cherry tree landmark" in 1990 is eminent famous place for beautiful cherry blossom. The Japanese spring landscape by which a contrast of the mossy stone wall and the salted cherry leave with which an inner citadel is surrounded has beautiful taste is a highlight. Several kinds of cherry tree such as a weeping cherry tree and an early-flowering cherry tree blooms in order including a Someiyoshino cherry tree in the park. The cherry tree of Komoro origination of dark red "Komoro double kurenaiedasui (KOMOROYAEBENISHIDARE)" is also must-see at the inside.
Komoro ruin of the castle recall garden Cherry Blossom Festival is held in ordinary year April, and whole other periods when an event of a performance of a musical instrument is performed by Japan are lit up.

▼ Komoro ruin of the castle recall garden Cherry Blossom Festival
Time frame: Wednesday, April 1, 2026-Saturday on the 25th
Lighting: Sunset-21:00

[Bloom time] at the beginning of ordinary year April.
[Cherry tree best time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[The kind of cherry trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree, a weeping cherry tree and KOMOROYAEBENISHIDARE.

Komoro ruin of the castle recall garden

• 311, Tei, Komoro-shi, Nagano MAP
• It's a car from JRKaruizawa station, about 45 minutes
• 9:00-17:00
• Open everyday (Year-end and new year holidays is closed on Wednesday every week until 12 Monday-March for the 2nd week.)
• It's smaller than a high school student 500 yen, a* junior high school student of 200 yen
• 0267-22-0296
• Payment required

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National Livestock Breeding Center Ibaraki pasture Nagano branch

Beauty of the highlights with which a Someiyoshino cherry tree of exceeding fascinates an age of the tree for 100 years

It's popular with the family enjoying by a name as a common name "Nagano pasture", flower viewing spot. Though there is immediately near the city, Asama can dominate and get a bird's-eye view of the landscape which can feel great outdoors in Sakudaira in a back.
About 50 old trees of a Someiyoshino cherry tree beyond an age of the tree for 100 years make an excellent flower bloom from the end of April. The form of SHIDAREZAKURANO of a big tree that an existence sense is set free in beautiful Sakuranamiki. Then the "Fureai Hiroba" in the pasture can see the yeanling born in spring every year imminently, and you give cure to the people who visited.

[Bloom time] at the middle of ordinary year April.
[Cherry tree best time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[The kind of trees] Someiyoshino cherry tree and weeping cherry

National Livestock Breeding Center Ibaraki pasture Nagano branch

• 2029-1, Arakoda, Saku-shi, Nagano MAP
• It's a car from JRKaruizawa station, about 40 minutes
• 24 hours
• Open everyday
• Free
• 0267-67-2501
• Free