Stop and smell the roses at Yokohama Rose Week!

I lived in Yokohama before social media was a thing, back in 2002. I feel I would have enjoyed living there even more if I knew about the beautiful flower locations in my neighborhood. I only heard about many of them in recent years! Right now, Yokohama are celebrating "Rose Week" with nine stunning rose locations each with an unique image of its own.

Yokohama Rose Week

The official city flower of Yokohama is the rose. So its no wonder they celebrate rose season in style! Moreover, Yokohama City is set to host "Green X Expo 2027", in four years time. Therefore, Yokohama City have been increasing the number of flowers as well as flower events and actively promoting the flowers and greenery of Yokohama in preparation for that international horticulture event.

The Yokohama Rose Week promotes key rose flower locations within Yokohama and encourages people to get out and about town to see the stunning flowers in bloom. Its called Yokohama Rose "week", but is actually more than a month long. The nine main locations that participate in the event are:

• Yamashita Park, particularly "Future Rose Garden"
• Yokohama English Garden, which also has a rose festival of its own until May 28th.
• Hill Park with a view of the harbor
• Yokohama City Hall
• Mount America (aka American Mountain) Park
• Yamate Italian Garden
• Nogeyama Park - check out the excellent free zoo while you're there! 
• Hakkejima Hill
• Children's Botanical Garden

Yokohama Rose Week Information

Event: Yokohama Rose Week

Date: since May 3rd until Sunday June 11th 2023

Time: each of the locations have their opening hours. Generally, they are all open during office hours. 

Cost: some of the locations are free in, others have a charge. Such as Yokohama English Garden which has an entry fee of 1500 yen. 

Official web page.