Fukushima   Aizu rural areas (Aizu-wakamatsu, Kitakata, Bandai and Inawashiro)  20 elections of famous place for beautiful cherry blossom [2026 year edition].

Aizu rural areas located in the west of Fukushima . The area abundant naturally with grand Bandai-san (It's BA N, Isa, oh.) and Inawashiro-ko Lake with the high clarity. It's learned even that there are a lot of distinguished trees of a cherry tree and landmarks as it also matched the title of the NHK Historical Drama of NHK which made Aizu a stage "double cherry tree". I'll introduce a landmark of the flower viewing which can't be removed including an opening scene of the said drama and the spot used for a title back.

Contest in Tenshu and Sakura where a red roof tile is worn only in Japan can be enjoyed.

A pink cherry tree adds a flower to Tenshu of a red roof tile more.
A pink cherry tree adds a flower to Tenshu of a red roof tile more.

The "crane KE castle" which is also learned about as Meijo in the world by Aizu-wakamatsu symbol of the city. It was dissolved once after the Boshin War, but a red roof tile was reconstructed in 1965 (1965), and was restored by fundamental reconstruction in 2011. About 69,000 tsubo around the castle is maintained as "crane KE castle park", and a cherry tree as much as about 1000 is in a landmark of flower viewing which blooms present. Very beautifully, contest in Tenshu and Sakura of the red roof tile which can be seen only here is also chosen as 100 "elections of Japanese cherry tree landmark" a meeting of a Japanese cherry tree set in Japan.
At the inside, recommendation is a view from the Ninomaru side. Over a cherry tree, you can wish for Tenshu in Ishigaki of vermilion-lacquered hallway bridge and height 20m which follow an inner citadel and the inside. When it's lit up, the more fantastic atmosphere can be tasted. I also hold "crane KE castle cherry tree festival" according to the time of the cherry tree and prosper further.

[Bloom time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[Best time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[The kind of cherry trees] Someiyoshino cherry tree, double flowering cherry tree, weeping cherry tree and mountain cherry and others

▼ Crane KE castle cherry tree festival
Date: 2026 year April 1 (Wed)-May 6 (water •substitute holidays)
A place: In the crane KE castle park
Lighting: Sunset-21:30 (behind the falling blossom, to 21:00)
Remarks:https://www.aizukanko.com/feature/2026event_spring/2026event_spring

Crane KE castle
  • The address1-1, Outemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • Bus DirectionA tour bus "Stylishness, oh." ride in the Aizu bus town for about 20 minutes "crane KE castle entrance" gets off JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 2 minutes on foot
  • Business hours8:30-17:00 (16:30 last entry)
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionThe donjon entrance charge An adult of 410 yen and a dwarf of 150 yen
  • TEL0242-27-4005 (crane KE castle Administration Office)
  • ParkingPayment required

Big cherry tree of the age of the tree for about 650 years which tells a visit in spring to Aizu rural areas

Kido is maintained under the branch which spread big.
Kido is maintained under the branch which spread big.

The big cherry tree which was that I appeared on an opening of NHK NHK Historical Drama "double cherry tree", and started to be learned about nationwide. It's a natural monument in Aizuwakamatsu-shi in EDOHIGAN called an age of the tree for about 650 years. A big tree which consists of 10 trunks is about 11 m of tree height, and a branch Chun is the widest place, about 20 m. The state by which a branch makes a flower bloom fully is itself heroically, from a far place, the whole, I look, good is done and I take a walk, and it would be better to wrap under the branch in a cherry tree.
Because I'm ranked as "weeping cherry of a cedar" and one of "Aizu five cherry tree" as well as "Oga cherry tree" in Inawashiro-machi of "tiger's tail cherry tree", "gray cherry tree" and Aizubange-machi of Aizumisato Town and bloom earliest in it, it's also learned about as Sakura where I tell Aizu rural areas of a visit in spring. Further, Ishibe cherry tree is away from Parking, and I'm walking along a footpath between rice fields in a rice paddy, so it's recommended to go with the figure I tend to walk.

[Bloom time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[Best time] at the middle of ordinary year April.
[The kind of cherry trees] EDOHIGAN.

Ishibe (ISHIBE) cherry tree
  • The addressIkkimachiyahata, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima Ishibe MAP
  • DirectionAt about 8 minutes, it's special by car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, from Parking, about 15 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionTour embussment and "Meshimori Yamashita" get off JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 15 minutes on foot
  • TEL0242-39-1251 (Aizuwakamatsu-shi Tourism Section)
  • ParkingFree (special Parking only during bloom).

About 1000 weeping cherries which bloom on an approximately 3 km of esplanade

Flower viewing can be enjoyed slowly while taking a walk without a road of a car.
Flower viewing can be enjoyed slowly while taking a walk without a road of a car.

The esplanade where the part of the former Japan National Railways daytime line site which became an abandoned power line in 1984 (1984) was maintained. A section over about 3 km is the "weeping cherry alameda" where about 1000 weeping cherries were planted from an esplanade entrance of about 5 minutes on foot from Kitakata Station, and even a prefecture is a very popular flower viewing spot. The landscape a pink weeping cherry blooms straight, and by which the state which rustles in a wind would like to judge the once. SL which was moving in an abandoned power line is also exhibited by the way to the esplanade, and many flower viewing visitors are taking a commemorative photograph.

[Bloom time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[Best time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[The kind of cherry trees] weeping cherry other ones

Daytime line (NITCHUU,) weeping cherry row of trees
  • The addressKitakata-shi, Fukushima letter Oshikirihigashi 2-Chome other ones MAP
  • DirectionThey walk from JR Kitakata Station, about 5 minutes
  • TEL0241-24-5200 (Kitakata sightseeing product society)
  • ParkingFree (There is special Parking only bloom time.)

Its figure approximately 3000. The superb view which is buried at Sakura as far as it's looked around

The superb view which spreads before walking about 100 m
The superb view which spreads before walking about 100 m

I'll celebrate Toshinomiya Aiko Her Imperial Highness Princess birth in 2001, and 2001 big mountain cherries are planted by an owner system in the next year. After that there is also additional tree-planting and it's more than 3000 scales present.
When setting one step of foot on a tree-planting area, dark pink is wrapped in a characteristic big mountain cherry. When I walk in the cherry tree from Parking it neighbors a little, Iide a snow-covered top made far (I'm here and come.) can enjoy contest in a mountain range and Sakura. You can look at a big mountain cherry in full bloom as when it's most developed to the inside, there is a hill where you can look down upon a tree-planting parcel in Sakuragatouge, and I may compete in a slope front page, and it's a recommended view spot.
Because an altitude is high, best time is ordinary year G.W. It's also the feature to be able to shift time late compared with a plain with time and enjoy flower viewing.

[Bloom time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[Best time] at the beginning ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[The kind of cherry trees] big mountain cherry

Kitashiobara-mura Sakuragatouge
  • The addressKitashiobara-mura, Yama-gun, Fukushima large section of a town Oshio letter Sakuragatouge MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Inawashiro Station, about 40 minutes
  • Bus DirectionEmbussment and "rabbi spa Ura-bandai" get off JR Inawashiro Station, immediately.
  • TEL0241-32-2511 (Kitashiobara-mura Commercial Tourism Division)
  • ParkingFree

Nostalgia is being sold to the invited scenery. The cherry tree lit up by the seven colors is also must-see.

To enjoy flower viewing freely at Kawanabe.
To enjoy flower viewing freely at Kawanabe.

The Kannon-ji river where Kawageta (KAWAGETA) station near the Inawashiro lake ridge flows through the north right now. When spring comes, about 200 cherry trees bloom a Someiyoshino cherry tree over about 1 km from the "Kannon-ji" neighborhood in the riverside. The simple landscape like the world by which the Kannon-ji river where water runs gently is a children's song "stream in spring" is charm. Such as a box lunch is eaten at embankment while seeing the dear landscape remembered for a long time and the cherry tree which are Japanese, in his own way, how about spending time?

[Bloom time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[Best time] at the beginning of ordinary year May.
[The kind of cherry trees] Someiyoshino cherry tree, weeping cherry tree, EDOHIGAN and mountain cherry

Kannon-ji river cherry tree row of trees
  • The addressInawashiro-machi, Yama-gun, Fukushima large section of a village Kawageta MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Kawageta Station, about 1 minute on foot
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0242-62-2048 (Inawashiro tourist association)
  • ParkingFree

I also appear in a title back of NHK Historical Drama. Sakuranamiki which develops in the green grassland

Sakuranamiki where the highway where I run in the pasture is colored
Sakuranamiki where the highway where I run in the pasture is colored

The town-run pasture spread in the side of Bandai-kogen. When spring comes on about 1.4 km of highway which develops in east and west in the site and a highway of the 300m which develops in the north from the eastern start point, about 200 Someiyoshino cherry trees bloom, and you're being called "oh, cherry tree load in a lumberyard" and are enjoying. A row of trees in the hall was the famous place of flower viewing a tourist also visits out the prefecture at the pasture which became the photography location of the title back of NHK NHK Historical Drama "double cherry tree" in 2013.
The cherry tree load which develops in the north is uphill to the north where Bandai-san is here, and when turning the eyes to the other south where collaboration of a cherry tree is judged by Kita as Bandai-san of remaining snow on the day which cleared up, it's possible to look down upon Inawashiro lake while putting a cherry tree in the sight.

[Bloom time] at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May.
[Best time] at the beginning of ordinary year May.
[The kind of cherry trees] Someiyoshino cherry tree and TAKATOUKOHIGAN

Inawashiro town-run Bandai-san (It's BA N, Isa, oh.), pasture
  • The addressInawashiro-machi, Yama-gun, Fukushima large section of a town Osada letter Wataba MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Inawashiro Station, about 10 minutes
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0242-72-0212 (Inawashiro-machi promotion public corporation)
  • ParkingFree
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