Autumn rose festival in Konosu

This Saturday sees the start of the Kakyu no Sato Autumn rose festival. Kakyu no Sato is a period house turned into community facility in Konosu city. It has a beautiful rose garden that I have visited in both spring and autumn. To be honest, it is much more vibrant in spring, but you can see some lovely roses in Autumn too. Moreover, the cosmos may have started to bloom toward the end of the rose festival. This is still an off the beaten path location for cosmos.

The 2025 Kakyu no Sato Autumn rose festival is only on for 8 days, from Saturday October 18th to Sunday October 26th 2025. On the Tuesday 21st, Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd they will have mini concerts in the afternoon. There is usually at least one food truck on site while the festival is on and there is a restaurant in the period house too. And since last year there is a new shop to one side of the rose garden. 

Its not somewhere that I would recommend going out of your way to visit, not in Autumn anyway, but Kakyu no Sato is relatively close to one of Japan's largest cosmos fields, Cosmos Arena Fukiage, which has MILLIONS of cosmos in bloom at this time of year. If you are travelling to the cosmos festival by car, you may want to add a quick stop at Kakyu no Sato for some roses too.