Kazahaya no Sato, a flower garden that combines welfare and the environment - Hometown of Kappa - 2024 Plum Festival (Blooming status, best time to see and access information also included) Kazahayanosato Kappano full sugar pine tree

Date: February 7, 2024 (Wednesday) - March 17, 2024 (Sunday) *Opened earlier than scheduled to open on February 10 (Saturday)

A blissful moment of cherry blossom viewing and footbath under the plum blossoms. Let's enjoy the spring healing together with your dog!

*Half-price campaign for all visitors with dogs during the Plum Festival!

What are you looking forward to at Kazahaya no Sato's plum festival?
・65 varieties, 565 plums, colorful plums
・Yoro Plum tree, approximately 100 years old and 6m tall
・Plum shower (let's take a shower with weeping plums!)
・Have a cherry blossom viewing lunch box inside the plum blossoms or in the arbor! You can bring your own food!
・Medicinal herbal footbath with a panoramic view of plums, wisteria, hydrangeas, and autumn cherry blossoms
・Plum Hanachozu
・Dogs can also be photographed inside the plum blossoms.
・Dogs can walk around the entire flower garden on a leash.
・Dog photo stand
・Children's athletics
・Face panel
・Children's stamp rally
・Flower garden illustration map quiz
・Visit Hananooka Shrine, which is dedicated to the god of welfare “Prince Shotoku”
・Prince Shotoku's pet dog "Yukimaru"
・“Ema” and “Goshuin” made by users of the disability facility “Kazehaya no Sato”
・3/2(Sat) 3(Sun) Fukurokai Handmade Soba
・3/3 (Sun) Flower Queen photo session
・3/9 (Sat) Tsu Queen Photo Session Land Holiday
・3/10 (Sun) Land holiday
・Opening a kitchen car on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays
・Kazahaya Chaya (Open every day during the period)
・Golf cart transportation from Iriro Gate to Kazahayaya Chaya (9:00-16:00)


Kazahaya no Sato - Kappa no Furusato - is located 5 minutes from Hisai IC on the Ise Expressway, and 32 minutes from VISON, one of Japan's largest commercial resorts, on the Ise Expressway.It was designated as a national treasure in 2017. 25 minutes on the Nakase Bypass to IseJingu, 70 minutes on National Route 23 to visit Ise Jingu Shrine, 41 minutes on the Ise Expressway to the world heritage Kumano Kodo Oni Pass entrance, and 41 minutes IseShimaSummit It takes 75 minutes to get there on National Route 23, making it the perfect stopover or lunch break on your way to and from sightseeing in Ise-Shima.

``Kazahaya no Sato'' is located on the banks of ``Kazahaya Pond,'' which has a circumference of 3.8 km, and is located within the ``Ise Onsen Golf Club'' on a hilly area of approximately 70,000 square meters. Kazehaya Pond is one of the 800 irrigation ponds built across the country by Emperor Suinin in October of 35 AD. During the Sengoku period, the lord of the Tsushiro domain, TakatoraTodo, named the land where he irrigated it with the name ``Kazehaya,'' hence the name ``Kazehaya Pond,'' and it remains one of the prefecture's leading water sources for rice fields.

Since 2004, users and staff of the social welfare corporation Shojukai's facilities for people with disabilities have been working together to prune, fertilize, weed, improve soil, maintain, and manage the plum, wisteria, and hydrangea trees. As the first flower garden in Japan to incorporate horticultural welfare, we are working to integrate the environment and welfare.

``Plums'' are ``Kankobai'', ``Michirube'', ``Shirakaga'', ``Kagoshima Kobai'', ``Beni-chidori'', ``Nikkobai'', ``Kokutsuru'', ``Bungobai'', ``Minato Kobai'', ``Koume'', ``Nankobai'', and ``My Thoughts''. 565 trees of 65 different varieties, including "Mama", "Hinkoume", and "Juhoume", bloom in the 20,000m2 green lawn from early February to late March.
You can take a walk amidst the sounds of pheasants, white-eyes, and warblers. Enjoy a different world of ``healing flower scenery'' that you cannot see in everyday life as a family of three generations.

Click here for the blooming status of plum blossoms in 2024 Mie flower calendar
Click here for other famous plum spots in Mie Prefecture Special feature on famous plum spots in Mie Prefecture 2024 edition

A fusion of welfare and the environment Garden KAZAHAYANOSATO
～Hometown of Kappa～

' Kazahaya no Sato -Kappa's home-' is located just 5 minutes from Hisai interchange of Ise highway and also 25 minutes on Chusei bypass from ' Senjuji 'which was designated as a national treasure in 2017.
Situated conveniently on the way to your sightseeing in Ise Shima is Kazahaya no Sato. It takes 5 minutes to reach us from the Hisai interchange and 70 minutes from The Ise Grand Shrine on Route 23.
Located also just 40 minutes from Otokido Pass, a starting point for hiking part of the World Heritage Site of Kumano Kodo, an ancient pilgrimage route from before the Edo period. It is also 75 minutes on route 23 to the Ise Shima summit Venue.

Kazahaya no Sato is the ideal spot to take a well-earned rest for lunch en-route to Ise Shima.

Kazahaya no Sato is a hilly area of about 70,000 square meters located within the Ise-Onsen Golf Club beside the Kazahaya Pond, which is 8 km in circumference. Kazahaya pond is just one of the 800 irrigation ponds that the Emperor Suinin had made for Japan in the Winter of 35 AD.
In the period of warring states the lord of Tsu castle, Lord Takatora Todo, named Kazehaya the land where irrigation work was to be completed. It has proudly been the water resource for our main rice fields in Mie prefecture ever since.

From 2004 the Social Welfare Corporation Sei jyu kai worked alongside residents and staff of care homes to help us prune, fertilize, weed, improve and remedy soil as well as maintain and operate the management of plums, wisteria and hydrangea. We are happily the first garden in Japan to incorporate gardening welfare and are continually working on blending the environment with the welfare of our close knit community.

We have 46 species of plants with 556 Plum trees including Kankoubai, Michisirube, Shirokaga, Kagoshimakoubai, Benichidori, Nikkobai, Benizuru, Bungoume, Minatokoubai, Koume, Nankoubai, and Omoinomama to name but a few.
There are 500 different species and 45 different types such as Rinshibai. These bloom within the 20,000 square meter lawn from early February to late March.