A rose festival in Sayama this weekend

There are several rose festivals on in Saitama Prefecture, and the Greater Tokyo area, this weekend as the roses are in their prime right now in the Kanto plain. Earlier in the week I visited a rose garden in a large park in Sayama City. Each year they have a rose festival on when the roses are in full bloom. Short notice, but the festival is on tomorrow! It was on today too.

The park is Chikozan park, which also has other flowers as well as other attractions. Including a very affordable zoo. The zoo is a children's zoo, so if you are looking for somewhere to view roses with children in tow, Chikozan park is a good option. The zoo is about a ten or fifteen walk from the roses. Even if you can't make the festival tomorrow, the roses should be in bloom for about another week.

The rose garden isn't particularly large, but it looks very picturesque when the roses are blooming. They have some rarer colors of roses too. It is a popular spot, but there are plenty of parking lots. The one nearest the rose garden is full most of the time at this time of year, but if you park near the playgrounds, the wintersweet grove or the zoo you can usually find parking places. The park is large, but even still you probably wouldn't need to walk more than 20 minutes from the other parking lots.

Chikozan park reviewed on City-cost. And a review of the zoo.