Hamanako Garden Park

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A 56-hectare park with free entry: the 50 m observation tower costs 300 yen.

The park covers 56 hectares on the site of the 2004 flower expo, with free car parks and free entry. Going up the observation tower, 50 metres tall, costs 300 yen; the boat that crosses the gardens costs 600 yen one way and does not run in November and December. In the garden inspired by Monet's at Giverny, nemophila bloom in spring, sunflowers in summer, cosmos in autumn.

The park was created on the site of the 2004 International Expo of Flowers and Greenery (浜名湖花博), on the Murakushi peninsula, within Lake Hamana. Across its 56 hectares you find, one after another, a flower garden inspired by Monet's at Giverny, a meadow of nemophila in spring, a 50-metre observation tower and a canal you travel along by boat.

ℹ️ Open all year except from 29 December to 3 January: 8:30–17:00, until 18:00 in July and August. Free entry and free car parks, with 1,800 parking spaces. The observation tower costs 300 yen from high school age up and 100 from elementary school to junior high, and you cannot eat or drink inside. The boat costs 600 yen one way or 1,000 return (children 300 and 500) and does not run in November and December. Entetsu bus to the ‘ガーデンパーク’ bus stop, about 60 minutes from Hamamatsu Station, with few services a day: reviews recommend going by car.

🚉 Hamanako Garden Park · in front of the station

Sources: amazing-garden.jp · hamamatsu-pippi.net · hamamatsu-pippi.net · jp-hamamatsu.com · 4travel.jp

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