Period : June 1, 2009 - June 30
Time : 9:00 - 17:00(To 18:00 on Saturday and Sunday. )
In the garden of about 6ha, 1.5 million irises bloom all over one after another.
The event of the marriage boat and the local performing art is held on the weekend.
When the night comes, the iris causes air different from daytime. Please enjoy strolling while being blown to the night wind.
The plus information
The nearby sights
The sights a little way off
- Historic street of Sawara(National landscape conservation area)
- Memorial hall of Inoh Tadataka
- historic house of Inoh Tadataka
- The museum of festival float in Sawara
- Kampukuji-temple
- The Katori Shrine
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Data
- Name
- Iris festival in Sawara
- Date
- June 1,2009 - June 30
- Place
- The Sawara Aquatic Botanical garden
- Time
Iris festival in Sawara 9:00-17:00(to 18:00 on the weekend)
- [admission] fee
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May-August, excpt Iris festival period : adult 500 yen (group [over 20] : 400yen each), below junior high school student : 250 yen,(group [20 people or more] : 200 yen each)
period of Iris festival: adult 700 yen (group [over 20] : 600 yen each), below junior high school student: 350 yen(group [over 20]: 300 yen each)
September-April : adult 200 yen (group [over 20] : 150 yen each), below junior high school student: 100 yen(group [over 20]: 70 yen each)
- Access
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By train and bus : Getting off at Sawara Station, JR Narita-line. And on Kan-Tetsu sightseeing bus for Itako, getting off at Aquatic Botanical garden, 5 minutes on foot.
the bus : about six a day.
By car : Higashi Kanto Expressway, 20 minutes from Sawara-Katori exit, or 25 minutes from Taiei exit.
By High-way bus: Kanto Railways Green Bus from Tokyo Station for Hokota-station, getting off at Yodaura, Aquatic Botanical garden, 5 minutes on foot.
Keisei bus, from Hamamatsu-cho, or Tokyo-station, by way of Sawara, for Choshi, getting off at Sawara station north exit.
The shuttle bus has been operated from Sawara Station to the garden for the Iris festival period. (adult 500 yen)
- Parking
- Free parking, 700 standard-sized cars, 40 large-size cars
- Souvenir
- fish boiled in soy sauce, pickles, local sake, sweet potato cake, and Japanese cloth etc.
- Inquiries
- Katori City Sightseeing division; Tel.0478-50-1212
- The Sawara Aquatic Botanical garden; Tel.0478-56-0411
- note
- There is a rest room for the physically handicapped person.