Kawachi Wisteria Garden

Table of Contents

1 About The Garden
2 Garden`s Highlight
3 Best Time to Visit
- - - 3.0.0.1 Spring
    - 3.0.0.2 Autumn
4 Access
5 Information

About The Garden

Kawachi Wisteria Garden (河内藤園, Kawachi Fujien) is a private garden in the wooded hills south of central Kitakyushu, famous for its spectacular displays of wisteria flowers.
The garden was chosen as one of Japan’s 31 most beautiful places by America’s CNN.

The garden is opened to the public seasonally during the wisteria season which usually peaks around late April to early May and during the maple leaf season in autumn.
A total of 22 types of Wisterias bloom in spring and about 700 colorful trees will fill the garden with crimson foliage in fall.

Garden`s Highlight

The best highlight of this garden is two stunning tunnels made with numerous wisterias, roughly 100 meter . Both of tunnels are covered with beautiful wisterias in various colours, ranging from white to dark purple. And its creating overwhelming views.
※ The garden is small and about one hour / hour and half is enough to walk around the garden.

Best Time to Visit

Spring

The best time to visit for the Wisteria is from late April to beginning of May.
Since the garden is very popular in recent years at and attracts large numbers of visitors during the wisteria season, which often falls into the busy Golden Week ( a collection of holidays in Japan), it required to make reservations (from convenience stores) to enter the garden during the peak season in spring.

Autumn

There about 700 maple trees and the garden turn to yellow, orange and red from middle November to early December.

Access

The garden located in a spot that public transportation aren`t good enough.
The closed train station is Yahata Station.
From there, you take a bus Kamijuta (上重田) bus stop (the bus runs about once per hour), but from there you will need to walk for about 50-55 minutes to the garden.
So we really recommended to use taxi or rental car.

Information

Hours:
During the wisteria season (late April to early May)
8:00 – 18:00

During the autumn color season (mid November to early December)
9:00 – 17:00

Admission:
During the wisteria season
￥500 ~￥1,500
(depending on the state of the flowers peak)
※Tickets purchased in convenience stores cost ￥500 , and the possible difference to the actual admission fee has to be paid at the garden.
Important: Reservations are required during the peak season in spring!

During the autumn color season
￥500

Access:
There not good enough public transportation. From the Kamijuta (上重田) bus stop there needed to walk about 50-55 minutes to the garden.
We recommend to use rental car or Taxi.
※ During the peak spring there may be shuttle bus, but it require to check .