200-meter Wisteria Tunnel in Fukui

Walk through a long tunnel looking up at lovely flowers

Takako Sakamoto May 10, 2015 - 1 min read

<p>Wisteria flowers looking like purple curtains</p>

<p>This is the entrance of 200-meter-long wisteria corridor in Murasaki Shikibu Park. Unfortunately most blossoms had already fallen to the ground when I visited.</p>

<p>However, there were some blossoms still dangling from the trellis</p>

<p>They were just before falling to the ground and enjoying the last moments of their short lives.</p>

<p>Midway in a 200-meter-long corridor, I found the section with many flowers!</p>

<p>Radiant with late afternoon sunlight</p>

<p>Dream-like wisteria ceiling shining with sunlight from above</p>

<p>I want to sleep in a bed with a ceiling like this...it must feel so good!</p>

<p>A wisteria corridor surrounds the vast open space inside the park</p>

<p>Fallen petals of wisteria...they changed color from light purple to deep blue</p>

<p>Shriveled wisteria flowers about to fall. Sadly wisteria season is now over.</p>

I'm a big fan of wisteria. Ever since May came I kept looking for places in Fukui where I could see them. However, when I searched on the Internet I couldn't find any places famous for these flowers. One day, when I was trying to decide where to explore, the word '200-meter wisteria corridor' hit my eyes. The homepage of Murasaki Shikibu Park writes ever so unceremoniously that there is one in the park. A 200-meter-long wisteria corridor should make the park famous for it, but it's generally unknown even to the local people. I rushed to the park of course but sadly the peak was over and only a small part of the corridor was decorated by pretty flowers about to fall to the ground. I should come back again next year for sure!

Takako Sakamoto @takako.sakamoto

I was born in and grew up in Tokushima prefecture, and have lived in many places since then: Nishinomiya, Kyoto, Nara, Mie, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Fukuoka and Fukui. I am currently living in Yokohama City. All the places I lived, all the places I visited, I have loved dearly. The histor...