This year's Fukiage Poppy Festival

Fukiage is the name of an area in Konosu. An area known for its flowers. Right now, the poppies are in full bloom in the poppy fields which are in flood-lands for the Arakawa river. Moreover, this weekend is the annual two day poppy festival at the fields. Unfortunately, due to heavy rain today, they had to cancel some elements of the festival. But thankfully they didn't cancel the festival completely.

The Fukiage Poppy Field is really beautiful when the poppies are in full bloom, which they were yesterday when I visited. Just in time for the festival. The festival weekend usually marks the start of the free flower picking in the fields. Yes, you can pick poppies for free in this field, but only after the festival is over. Actually, they normally have a picking event as part of the festival. But that is one of the elements that was affected by the rain and they cancelled the free picking event today. They normally also have a rickshaw ride through the poppies, but I would imagine that was also cancelled due to the rain too.

Have you ever been to see the poppies in Fukiage? It is just one of two large poppy fields in Konosu. The other is in the Mamuro area. The Mamuro poppy field is actually the largest poppy field in all of Japan.

A review of Fukiage's poppy field on City-cost.