Between the main gate of the park and the greenhouse Crystal Palace, there is a big pond. Around 17:00, a fountain show started. I thought it might be beautiful at night.
The cherry blossoms in Hamamatsu Flower Park were illuminated at night from March 29 to April 7. During that period, the last entry time was 20:30. In Japanese, we have a specific word for “cherry blossoms at night.” It is “yozakura”, and Hamamatsu Flower Park was selling yozakuramochi or night cherry rice cake at their souvenir shop.
In this blog, I have introduced Kansai-style sakuramochi in the article “Vegan sweets in March.” Sakura means cherry, and sakuramochi is a rice cake stuffed with adzuki bean paste and wrapped with a cherry leaf. Yozakuramochi is a specialty of this park and available only there. The difference between sakuramochi and yozakuramochi is that yozakuramochi is coated with ground sesame and looks blackish.
When I got to the souvenir shop a little over 17:00, yozakuramochi was already sold out! I was shocked and left the park without buying anything. While waiting for a bus to JR Hamamatsu Station, I was thinking of sprinkling ground sesame on ordinary sakuramochi to prepare yozakuramochi.
Though I missed yozakuramochi, I could see yozakura in some other places in this season. This picture is from Hamamatsu Castle. Cherry blossoms looked different at night, and there were still people eating a picnic under the trees.
Address: 195 Kanzanji-cho, Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
Tel: 053-487-0511
Admissin fee: Varies depending on seasons
Open hours: March - September 9:00 - 17:00 (Last entry at 16:30)
October - November 9:00 - 16:30 (Last entry at 16:00)
December - February 10:00 - 16:30 (Last entry at 16:00)
During Lake Hamana Flower Festa 2019
March 21, 2019 - May 6, 2019 8:30 - 17:30
May 7, 2019 - June 30, 2019 9:00 - 17:00
Closed: December 29 to 31
Access: Take the "Kanzanji Onsen" line bus from Stop #1 in the bus terminal to "Flower Park"
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