About Ayame(Iris) Park

♦Million of Ayame flowers ushering the coming of summer.
Beautiful Iris with dark green leaves and white or purple petals. In this park, 500 different kinds of Iris are growing. Rare seed stocks of Edo kind socalled Nagaikosyu can be seen.
During the best season (10 June - 10 July) "Ayame festival" is held with events like Karaoke contest.



Details Ayame(Iris) Park




Address:5 Yoko town, Nagai city, Yamagata
Telephone:0238-88-5279
Opening hour:admission freely exept the time of festival
Entrance fee:520 Yen, Children 210 Yen, group of more than 20 people 420 Yen.
Parking:(free) 1500 cars

Access to Ayame(Iris) Park

Access:2 minutes on food from JR Rikusai Line Takaya station


Sightseeing in Yamagata
Spring:Cherry blossoms are at their best from April.
Summer:Hot. Visiting hamlet is recommended.
Fall:Beauty of the leaves when turned in autum. Imoni festivals everywhere!
Winter:Freezing cold with snow, and the trees will be coverd with them and ice.
Snow:Cold, but not as delicous as shaved ice.


Gotta eat them!
Cherries:70% of cherries in Japan are produced in Yamagata Prefecture.
La France pears:The queen of the fruits is also Yamagata's best production.
Yonezawa Beef:As known as "Matsuzaka" of the west, and "Yonezawa" of the east.
Imoni:One of the local dishes of Yamagata which beef soup and taro roots are boiled and seasoned together.
Soba:Buckwheat noodles.
Cold ramen:Yamagata is the birthplace for cold ramen; the chinese noodle.


About Yamagata info. About Yamagata info.
Yamagata info is the web site to introduce Yamagata Prefecture of Japan, mainly about the tourist attractions and hot springs which may help those who are planning on a trip to Yamagata.
The place where beautiful Japanese nature and unique culture still remain.


Map of Yamagata Japan.
Map of Yamagata Japan.


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