worth to visit and see them all!?

It's spacious and there's plenty to see, but since it's only sunflowers 🌻 I got bored. The heat wore me out so I couldn't look around calmly, so I recommend coming after Obon.

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The parking lot is large, there's a rest area where you can buy snacks and souvenirs, and it was bustling with lots of tourists. The field of sunflowers stretching out all around is simply wonderful. The field is on a slope and vast, so it may be a little tough for elderly people with bad legs, but there are vehicles for sightseeing, and using one makes getting around easy.

I set the destination in Google Maps navigation and headed there, but the place I arrived at was, unbelievably, a no-entry road. I had no choice but to make a U-turn at that point, and then head to the entrance on the National Route 275 side, about 2 km further away. Other cars had probably been guided there by their navigation too, because from the spot where I made the U-turn, there was a huge traffic jam both ahead and behind. I only found out later that the only way into the parking lot of the 🌻 garden is from the National Route 275 side. During the jam I spotted a small guide sign and I'm attaching a photo, but honestly it's very small, and I couldn't help thinking, "Isn't this failing to do its job as a guide sign?" What was even harder was merging onto National Route 275 from the U-turn spot. There's no traffic light at the intersection, and National Route 275 itself was badly jammed, so cars coming from the side road could hardly get in unless the cars on the national route let them in. In other prefectures, in traffic like this you often see what's called a "zipper merge", where merging cars are let in one at a time, alternating. People signal "thanks for letting me in" and everyone moves along comfortably. This time, though, among the cars with Hokkaido plates there were quite a few that closed the gap with the car ahead as hard as they could, as if to say "I absolutely won't let you in!", and watching them actually made me laugh (lol). Anyway, it took about 1 hour from the U-turn spot to finally arrive. There were security guards at the parking lot, and once I arrived I was able to park smoothly. The sign at the parking lot said "Standard passenger car 500 yen", but it isn't a system where an attendant collects the fee. There's a payment machine inside the facility, and everyone pays voluntarily on their own. There's no way to check whether you've paid, so some people may just skip it. Then on the way from the parking lot to the 🌻 field, there was an old man attendant at a spot advertising "Sunflower Maze, adult 1 person 300 yen", so I asked, "Do I need to pay an admission fee to enter the 🌻 garden?" and he said, "Yes, that's right." In that case, I paid 300 yen and went in. But afterward, it seems this "300 yen" wasn't the admission fee for the 🌻 garden itself but the fee for the "Sunflower Maze", and apparently you could see the 🌻 field without paying by taking a different route. ……Huh? Did the old man neatly steer us (lol). What they're doing is the same as a swindler, w I'd appreciate it if the fee information there were made a bit clearer for first-time visitors. As for the all-important 🌻🌻🌻, they spread out grandly over the whole gentle slope, and there's plenty to see! It was quite a struggle to get there, but the view of the sunflower field spreading out all around was very beautiful.

I usually come around Obon, but this year I came on August 1! It was a weekday evening, so the parking lot had plenty of room. The sunflowers were still young and blooming healthily, not yet setting seeds, and the yellow was vivid and very beautiful. In exchange, the field on the far side where the "Anywhere Door" is placed was still a bit greener. (At the Anywhere Door there was also a broom you can freely use for photos.) At that time almost nobody was climbing up this far, so I could take photos freely. All the sunflowers bloom facing east (properly toward the visitors), so I come in the evening every year, but photos at this hour end up backlit. The sunflowers are very tall, so I recommend using the observation deck! You can also tour the maze made of sunflowers and the spacious grounds by riding the "Himawari-go" pulled by a tractor. They also sell snacks like sunflower soft serve, and souvenirs. The sheer size is overwhelming, a view that makes you want to take lots of photos. In hot years the sunflowers lose their vigor quickly, so do come while they're still pretty. 2025.8.1.

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