wish you were here (Art Sites)

The cherry blossom viewing season is over for this year but here are some highlights of the cherry blossoms at Kikaku Koen, a prefectural park in Eastern Kagawa. We went in the evening to catch the blossoms lit up. Along one side of the park there is a tunnel of cherry blossom trees to walk through. We just went for an evening walk but lots of people were there eating and drinking having Hanami parties.
This is a big open park centered around a small lake. There are 100 thousand irises planted all around the lake that bloom in late May and over three hundred different types of trees to enjoy in any season.
The name of the park is made up of the characters for turtle (ki亀) and crane (kaku鶴). The reason for this is that the island in the lake is thought to resemble a turtle or tortoise and the mountain at the western end of the park is thought to resemble a flying crane.
It took us about a half hour to drive there but probably the easiest way to get there would be to take the Kotoden, Nagao line all the way to Nagao, the last station. From there it’s only a five minute drive to the park.