Kochia Carnival Fall Colors コキアの紅葉 - Hitachi Seaside Park, Ibaraki 10/18/2018

Kochia Carnival 2018

Wow! Stunning!! 32,000 Kochia plants are displaying a spectacular scenery of fall colors at the Miharashi Hill in Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki Prefecture! Cosmos flowers are also nicely blooming!! Kochia Carnival is through October 21. Go now and capture this breathtaking beauty of Kochia’s fall colors! とってもキレイ‼️ 

If you miss Kochia Carnival this time, there'll be an opportunity to see another amazing flower festival at the Miharashi Hill in Hitachi Seaside Park next spring. That is Nemophila Harmony in spring! 4.5 million Nemophila flowers cover the whole surface of 3.5 hectare Miharashi Hill to blue!

Hitachi Seaside Park

Hitachi Seaside Park offers a unique natural environment of sand dunes, forests, grasslands and springs. The 350 hectare (865 acres) park is open to the public, and it is a home for a variety of colorful flowers and grasses throughout the year, also with numerous attractions and events including an amusement park, large grassland, cycling and BMX tracks, a forest athletics field, BBQs, and many cafes and restaurants, quietly tucked in nature.

Hitachi Seaside Park Events Info:

http://en.hitachikaihin.jp/events.html 

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World's Largest Firework - 2018 Kounosu Fireworks Festival Finale (Guinness World Record) こうのす花火大会 "鳳凰乱舞" 日本一・世界最大の４尺玉花火 10-13-2018

Kounosu Fireworks Festival is an annual event organized by Kounosu Junior Chamber of Commerce, in Kounosu, Saitama, Japan. The festival’s ４尺玉/yonshakudama firework shell is recognized as the world’s largest aerial firework shell and became a new Guinness World Record in 2014. 

鳳凰乱舞(Ohtoriranbu) “Phoenix Dance” starmine firework for the finale is spectacular, which includes a series of 300 blasts with the Guinness World Record４尺玉/yonshakudama firework at the end. Ordinary shakudama (firework shell) is about 30cm in diameter and goes up 330 meters into the sky displaying a 300 meter bloom, whereas４尺玉/yonshakudama firework shell is over 1 meter in diameter reaching 800 meters into the sky displaying a 800 meter bloom across. 

Such a scale of spectacular fireworks not only illuminates the entire night sky breathtakingly, but also creates a dynamic sound and vibration that can be felt through your body and the ground. The experience is visually beautiful and physically sensational. It’s a must see and must feel. Two thumbs up!!

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