Every autumn, everywhere in Japan is dyed an extremely eye-catching red and yellow color of maple and chestnut leaves. In addition to spring with cherry blossoms, autumn is a super hot, super ideal and extremely romantic time to do a trip to Japan. KKday's #teamgo to Japan would like to introduce the nomination list of places to see beautiful red leaves.
1. Ashikaga Flower Park
Ashikaga Flower Garden is located in Togichi Prefecture, about 100km from Tokyo, about 40 minutes by Shinkansen train. This flower garden is full of flowers all year round in 4 seasons, especially in spring with super hot wisteria flowers. However, autumn is equally beautiful when the red and yellow colors of maple and chestnut leaves dye Ashikaga. Remember to bring your waist here, walk hand in hand under the red leaves to experience the cheesy feeling. Not to mention the red leaves, the park in October also has a field of purple flowers, which look quite like lavender but are actually Amethyst Sage flowers, a similar species, also very beautiful.
How to get from Tokyo to Ashikawa Flower Park
+ Using JR: Take the Tohoku Shinkansen to Oyama Station (42 minutes, 2 trips 1 hour), change to Ryomo Line to Tomita Station (33 minutes, 2 trips 1 hour). The single ticket for the trip is 3,990yen. From Tomita Station, walk about 1km to Ashikaga Flower Park.
2. Watarase Keikoku Railway
This railway line between the two districts of Gunma and Togichi is famous for its picturesque poetic scenery (if you don't believe it, please see the picture). Watarase Keikoku Railway is one of the most beautiful train routes, with the most majestic scenery in Japan when one side is a mountain with cherry blossoms blooming on one side, red maple leaves in autumn, and a murmuring stream on the other side, not to mention If you stop at Mizunuma station, you will also encounter an interesting hot spring. The experience of riding a train through the "masterpieces" of autumn will definitely leave you with extremely memorable memories.
How to get from Tokyo to Watarase Keikoku Railway
+ Using JR Pass: from Tokyo Station to Kiryu Station (takes about 2 hours). Kiryu Station on the JR Ryomo Line is connected to Watarase Keikoku Railway.
3. Kusaki Dam Lake
Is a super-wide lake located on the way to the old town of Nikko. Around the lake, there are many walking paths, and the observatory area (I mean the sitting area from above to see the autumn leaves). The mountains surrounding the majestic lake gradually change color from green to yellow and red, so beautiful that I don't know what words to use to describe it. If you remember to bring a pot of tea or coffee to sit in the middle of the mountains, sip and enjoy the beautiful scenery and cold weather, just call it "Peaceful Sky". In addition to watching maple leaves, near the lake there is a very relaxed and peaceful reclining Buddha statue, and there is also the Tomihiro Museum of Art which is worth visiting.
How to get to Kusaki Dam Lake
Usually if there is a big car, people will drive to Nikko and on the way it will be convenient to stop here. However, if you don't have your own car, you can still get here easily and quickly by booking KKday's maple leaf viewing day tour.
How to go to Ashikaga Flower Park, Watarase Keikoku Railway & Kusaki Dam Lake in 1 day
Going to each of these points by yourself is very far and time consuming, not to mention the wrong train, lost track of things that you want to hear. So as a bonus, please book KKday's fragrant, genuine, beautiful, lovely driver to go to all these 3 points in just one day. The car has been stopped and has wifi so that you can freely upload pictures of the autumn leaves for us to be jealous of at home :”>. Especially, the day tour is also free for children under 3 years old, and includes all entrance tickets, train tickets, lunch and everything, you just need to book this link: https:// /www.kkday.com/en/product/13888 and then dress up and go see the leaves.
4. Mount Mt.Jeans
MT. Jeans is located in Nasu in Toguchi Prefecture, people often come here in winter to ski, however, not only famous for its thrilling sports, Mt.Jeans is also a hot place to "hunt" gold leaf. red leaves in Japan. The best time to see the gold here is around mid-October, when the maple leaves in this area race to change color, looking so beautiful you want to cry. The special thing here is that instead of walking or driving too fast, there is another means for you to experience more realistic leaf viewing that is the cable car. Just feel like taking the cable car from the top down, the two sides are rows of red-leaf trees that will make you feel like you are immersed in the forest of autumn leaves (literally). In general, it's a majestic movie with a romantic and super beautiful product that can't be said, you'll know when you go :”>
Coming to this Nasu area, you also have to prepare mentally to meet sheep, cows, goats, chickens, chickens, cutoe ducks and very jovial, running and jumping on the road looking funny. This event is called “animal go go rush” which means everyone will drift to both sides of the road to see them freely gallop around the lake at full speed, everyone remember to pay attention to the sheep, each of them has a unique hair style that is a bit bat-like :)))
5. Nikko Castle
Referring to the golden autumn and forgetting about Nikko Castle is really an unforgivable omission!!! Nikko is an ancient citadel classified by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage, hearing this is enough to know how beautiful and ancient this place is, but from experience, it is sometimes beautiful and ancient. If you go to see autumn leaves, you'll be satisfied, don't ask. We have a super detailed article on how to go as well as certain must-see spots in Nikko, you can read it here: Nikko - The sacred and beautiful ancient city of Japan. What's beautiful? How to go?
To get to Nikko, you will have to pass the divine bends in Yilu Po, these bends are very sharp, very scary for those of you who are car sick but very beautiful, the road winding on both sides of yellow leaves. Red dotted on the background of green leaves can sometimes be so absorbed that they forget the drunkenness.
6. Yatsugatake Chushin Kogen Quasi-National Park
This park is located in the Honshu region, Japan. Coming here in autumn, you will immediately be immersed in the characteristic red and yellow color. To fully enjoy the autumn scenery, don't forget to climb the cable car to Kiyosato Terrace, 1900m above sea level. In addition, if you book a day tour of KKday, you also have the opportunity to experience grape picking and have lunch at a breathtaking view of Sun Meadows Kiyosato Highland Park.
7. Hitachi Seaside Park
If red maple leaves or yellow chestnut leaves are so familiar and you want to find something new to see in the fall, don't miss Hitachi Seaside Park. Hitachi Seaside Park is a park located in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of the Kanto region, which is famous for two types of trees: Nemophila (also known as Baby blue eyes) in spring, and Kochia (also known as cypress tree) summer or bush fire) in the fall. These flowering Kochia clumps will be planted next month, until around October, they will start from green to red, which is extremely lovely.
8. Lake Kawaguchi
Coming to Japan, it is impossible not to visit Mount Fuji, coming to Mount Fuji, it is even more impossible to ignore Lake Kawaguchi, this is the place to see the most beautiful Mount Fuji. The mountains are silhouetted against the calm lake like a vast, vast mirror that looks both poetic and endlessly majestic. Lake Kawaguchi is beautiful all year round, but the most beautiful is in the spring when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom and in the fall when the maple leaves turn color. You can just walk around the walking paths around the lake, breathe in the fresh air and admire the scenery, it's really the best. The scenery of Lake Kawaguchi is very beautiful, super beautiful, if you are a little skillful, you will easily capture the picture of the maple leaves hanging on the top of Mount Fuji like on the printer. Besides Lake Kawaguchi, around Mount Fuji there are also many places to see maple leaves, you can refer HERE, the time we go is winter so these places are mostly snow, but in autumn the leaves are yellow and red leaves race to show off their colors.
