A natural garden of highland wildflowers, grown as they would grow in the wild.
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How to enjoy it
Plants here grow from fallen seed rather than planting. Labels are small, so check the flower map from the entrance when something catches your eye. Mornings are best, when flowers have just opened and the scents are fresh.
A 30-minute loop from the forest edge into open meadow. Violets in spring, lilies in summer, gentians in autumn.
How to enjoy it
The flower map from the entrance lists what is blooming that week. Pick three to look for before you set out.
Walk with a gardener to find the season’s flowers and hear how the garden is looked after.
How to enjoy it
Hearing how it is tended changes how you see it. Ask about any flower you would like to grow at home.
Booking is in Japanese. Please use the booking site or call.
Book by By 17:00 the day before Cancellation Free until the day before; 100% on the day
A wooden terrace at the far end of the garden, looking over the meadow. Sit and watch the flowers move in the wind.
How to enjoy it
On summer evenings the low sun turns the meadow gold. Try the hour before closing.
Hours
Garden9:00–17:00
Closed
Wednesdays (open daily in July and August); closed mid-November to mid-April
NotesFlowering times shift from year to year
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Tip
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An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with a café.
Tip
In the classrooms, look for old teaching tools such as the bell that started lessons and the pedal organ. Afterwards, rest in the ground-floor café and take in the feel of the wooden schoolhouse.
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A forest kitchen cooking with vegetables from its own fields.
Tip
Komorebi grows its vegetables in fields a short walk from the kitchen. As you eat, picture where in the view outside each vegetable on your plate grew. Come a little after the lunchtime rush and you can take your time with the sound of the woods.
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The “yellow bridge”, with views of Yatsugatake, the Southern Alps and Mt. Fuji.
Tip
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