murmurNanbu Peony Festival
Nanbu Town · Hase Peony Garden
Dates and details can change. Always check the official website before you go.
Nanbu Town Tourism Association · Last checked: Oct 10, 2026
Dates
Dates not confirmed
- 2026
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- 2027
- Dates have not been announced yet. Please check the official website.
- Usual timing
- Usually mid May
- How the date is set
- Changes from year to year From mid-May to around late May; dates are announced each year
- Venue
- Hase Peony Garden
- City
- Nanbu Town, Aomori
About
Hase Peony Garden sits partway up Mt. Nakui, within a prefectural natural park, and this festival celebrates its spring bloom. The garden began in 1979, after parishioners of the neighboring Ekoin temple received peony seedlings from Hasedera in Sakurai, Nara – the head temple of their sect – and the town has tended it ever since. Today about 8,000 peonies of 130 varieties, the flower known in China as the "king of flowers," fill the garden with large, colorful blooms often called the finest in the Tohoku region. The garden was also named one of Japan's 100 Fragrant Landscapes by the Ministry of the Environment in 2001. Peak bloom runs from late May to early June, and the flowers are lit up on some evenings during the festival.
Sources
- OfficialNanbu Town Tourism Association nanbu-kanko.net
- OfficialAomori Tourism & International Exchange Organization (Amazing AOMORI) aomori-tourism.com
Last checked: Oct 10, 2026. Event information is based on official announcements, but changes may not always be reflected here. Please check each official website for accurate details.
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