What this is
Eighty varieties of sunflowers — including rare double-petaled blooms and red-and-white cultivars rarely seen at typical flower festivals — cover 65,000 square meters of rolling highland terrain at Sera Kogen Farm. Visitors can wander a sunflower maze, join stamp rallies, and pay to pick their own flowers to take home. The farm also serves its signature corn and a locally made 'Sera Burger' worth stopping for.
Who should go
Families with young children will get the most from the maze and stamp rallies. Flower enthusiasts and photographers drawn to unusual cultivars beyond the standard yellow will find the variety genuinely impressive.
Good to know
Entry tickets are typically purchased at the farm gate — bring cash as rural farm venues in Japan rarely accept foreign credit cards. The sunflower picking activity carries a separate fee on top of admission, so budget accordingly. Sera Kogen is a highland plateau roughly 500–600 metres above sea level, making it noticeably cooler and less humid than coastal Hiroshima in summer. There is no convenient train access directly to the farm; driving or joining a tour from Hiroshima city is the most practical option for visitors without a car. The festival runs through the peak of sunflower season, so blooms should be at their fullest around the advertised date.
This event was sourced and translated from Japanese by What's On Japan. Details may change — verify with the official source before attending.