Gogendo Park Cherry Blossoms 権現堂公園・権現堂桜堤

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Gogendo Park Cherry Blossoms 権現堂公園・権現堂桜堤

Welcome to Satte! A city in Saitama Prefecture famous for Gogendo Park when the cherry blossoms and rapesed blossoms bloom at the same time.

Nearest station is Satte Station on the Tobu Nikko Line. Inside the station is this tourist information desk.

Inside Satte Station.

From Satte Station, there are infrequent buses to Gogendo Park. Bus schedule hre.

Satte Station on the Tobu Nikko Line. 東武日光線幸手駅

In front of Satte Station, the bus stop for Gogendo Park.

Long line for the bus to Gogendo Park. Unfortunately, the bus got too full to fit me.

I couldn't wait for the next bus.

So I started walking to the park. It took about 30 min.

Most people go by car.

Large parking lot at the park.

Finally, the entrance to the riverbank lined with cherry blossoms.

Map of Gogendo Park, a long park along an embankment lined with three rows of cherry blossoms. In parallel are large patches of rapeseed blossoms and Nakagawa River.

At the foot of the embankment with cherry trees and food stalls. Flowers usually bloom from late March to early April. This is probably around 80% bloom.

At the foot of the embankment with cherry trees and food stalls.

There are three rows of cherry blossoms on the riverbank. This row is on the foot of one side.

There are three rows of cherry blossoms. One row on both sides of the embankment, and one row on the top of the embankment.

Cherry blossoms on the top of the embankment.

Cherry blossom tunnel on the riverbank. It goes on for about 1 km. There are 1,000 cherry trees.

Cherry blossom tunnel on the riverbank.

Looking toward the rapeseed blossoms.

I walked along the entire length of the cherry blossoms. Very pleasant.

From the embankment, here's one path that goes to the rapeseed blossoms.

Walking around the rapeseed blossoms is the main highlight since you also see the cherry blossoms.

Nanohana and sakura. It seems that my digital camera thought the picture had too much yellow so it tried to compensate by adding a bluish tinge. I had to correct it.

Such an impressive sight at one of the most famous cherry blossom spots in the Tokyo or Kanto area.

Cherry blossoms and rapeseed blossoms at Gogendo Park in Satte, Saitama Prefecture. Even this is still 80% bloom.

Cherry blossoms and rapeseed blossoms at Gogendo Park in Satte, Saitama Prefecture.

Rapeseed blossoms at Gogendo Park in Satte, Saitama Prefecture. The rapeseed blossoms were planted in 1988 where there used to be rice paddies here.

Rapeseed flowers at Gogendo Park in Satte, Saitama Prefecture.

The cherry blossoms go along the riverbank for 1 km. That's quite long, but it was originally a whopping 6 km long.

Many of the trees were cut down during WWII for firewood. The ones we see today were planted in 1949.

Every spring, they show this on the TV news in Tokyo, but it's way more beautiful to see it in person. The place is also a lot bigger than what you see on TV.