[Spring trip] Only this season! "Sakura" spots around Urabandai

It is one of the 100 best cherry blossom viewing spots in Aizu, with about 1,000 cherry blossoms blooming. A variety of cherry blossoms, such as Yoshino cherry tree, Edhigan, Takatoshigan, and Shidaresakura, bloom and dust at different times. The cherry blossoms at night are also beautiful, and the appearance of the cherry blossoms appearing on the light reflected white on the surface of the moat is fantastic. In addition, Tsuruga-jo Castle is a rare red tile castle tower in Japan, and you can enjoy the appearance of the late Tokugawa period seen by the White Tiger Corps.

The best time to see each year: From early April to mid-April

Location: 1-1 Ote-cho, Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture 965-0873

About 60 minutes by car from the hotel

Urabandai is a late spring. At Sakura Pass, as many as 3,000 Oyama cherry trees bloom before and after Golden Week.
A spectacular cherry blossom viewing spot where you can see the mountains of the Iide Mountain Range, covered with dark pink and white snow. Walking down the row of cherry blossom trees to the back, you can feel the scale of 3,000 cherry blossom trees as far as you can see below the hill.

The best time to see each year: Late April to early May

Location: Oshio, Kitashiobara-mura, Yama-gun, Fukushima 966-0402, Japan

About 20 minutes by car from the hotel

The site of the Japan National Railways Japan-China Line is maintained as a "bicycle walking path", and about 1,000 weeping cherry trees line up over about 3,000 meters.
On this day, on the street of the Naka Line Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Road, there are spectacular places like cherry blossom tunnels, and popular spots where SLs that used to run the daytime line are displayed.

The best time to see each year: From mid-April to late April

Location: 22 Oshikiri-Higashi, Kitakata City, Fukushima Prefecture 966-0896 Japan

About 50 minutes by car from the hotel

Kanonji Temple is located at the foot of Mt. Kawageta, 1 km east of Kawageta Station on the JR Banetsu West Line. The river flowing from the north side is Kannon Terakawa. The cherry blossom corridor is about 1 km from Kanonji to near JR Kawageta Station. The cherry blossom tunnel continues with a row of cherry blossom trees of Yoshino cherry trees and weeping cherry trees.

The best time to see each year: From mid-April to late April

Location: 83 Kamigawara, River Gertar, Inawashiro-cho, Yama-gun, Fukushima 969-2663, Japan

About 25 minutes by car from the hotel

Takizakura, one of Japan's three largest cherry blossoms, is the first famous cherry tree to be designated as a national natural monument on October 12, 1922. It is also known that Sugito's painting "Sakura" (Meiji Hashimoto painter) and Akasaka Sacas Akasaka Biz Tower mural "Four Season Trees" (Hiroshi Senju painter) were drawn as models between the main pine of the Imperial Palace Palace.
During the flowering season, countless small flowers of light red color bloomed from branches that extend in all directions, and it is said that they came to be called "Takizakura" because it looks like a falling waterfall.
※Three Major Cherry Blossoms in Japan: Ne Odani Tanboku Sakura (Motosu City, Gifu Prefecture), Kojiro Yamataka (Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture) and Miharu Takizakura.

The best time to see each year: Early April to mid-April

Location: Sakurakubo 296, Otakiji, Miharu-cho, Tamura-gun, Fukushima 963-7714, Japan

Cherry blossom viewing fee: 500 yen (free for junior high school students and younger)

About 70 minutes by car from the hotel