#Mifuneyama Rakuen Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Gardens
Address:
4100 Takeocho Oaza Takeo, Takeo, Saga 843-0022, Japan
Opening times:
Opens at 08:00-17:30,17:30-22:00Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
1-2 hour
Phone:
+81-954-233131
Teamlab: a forest where gods live
If you've been to a teamlab exhibit, you know what to expect. What makes this one special is the location. The park is beautiful with different venues spread everywhere. Some pieces resemble others featured in different locations, e.g. the pound where the carps projections are feels like the one in teamlab Planets in Tsukiji, Tokyo. That said, the location itself gives a different vibe to the pieces.
Wear comfortable shoes and be careful when walking around as the place can be quite dark in some places.
There are 2 gates and one opens 1 hour later, at 20:00. I would suggest entering earlier so you don't have to rush to see everything.
Flavio
Mifuneyama Rakuen, Takeo, Saga, Japan
We visited Mifuneyama Rakuen in late April. It was so beautiful and relaxing there. A wonderful place for family to visit. I would love to visit again in different seasons.
Kyushu, Japan - A Favorite for Both Adults and Children: Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel
The Mifuneyama Rakuen, loved by both adults and children, is a famous attraction located in Takeo, Kyushu, known for its ship-shaped mountain top and sea of flowers. Cherry blossoms, azaleas, wisteria, autumn leaves... they bloom in succession, making every season beautiful! Especially in May, during the azalea season, the entire mountain top is covered with a colorful sea of flowers, which is quite magnificent and vibrant, making it the best season to visit Mifuneyama.
The scenery is vastly different between day and night, and to fully appreciate the beauty of Mifuneyama, it is highly recommended to stay at the park hotel for a night! Mifuneyama Hotel has collaborated with teamLab, integrating the colorful interactive light installation art ingeniously into every corner of the hotel. As soon as you enter the lobby, you are greeted by lanterns twinkling in the darkness, sometimes pink, sometimes deep blue, making it hard to find the reception desk while you're too busy taking beautiful photos XD
The hotel offers two different styles of rooms. One is the authentic Japanese tatami room with a garden, the 'Old Pine' room type, which is spacious enough to sleep 10 people, with its own corridor and garden, outdoor hot spring, and Japanese-style bedding. You can even choose to have dinner in the room, so comfortable that you don't want to move. The other area has modern Western-style rooms, but with a very strong design sense, offering a contrasting and fresh style that young people like.
Although the Old Pine room has its own outdoor hot spring, it is still highly recommended to visit the public bath, where the men's and women's baths are swapped daily. The public bath also has an outdoor area, and the most special part is the rest area, which is an industrial-style glass building. On the second floor, there is a fireplace for roasting marshmallows, and lounge chairs for enjoying the view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. A cherry tree is planted right beside it, and watching the pink petals fall into the hot spring pool is incredibly beautiful and atmospheric!
The meals are also impressive. Breakfast is served in the public dining area of the hot spring hotel, and it's extravagant, covering the entire table with a lavish spread! It's highly recommended to visit Takeo, not just for a quick look, but to stay a night at Mifuneyama Rakuen, enjoy the flowers, soak in the hot springs, see the teamLab exhibition, and after checking out, visit Takeo Shrine and the library. Along the way, you'll also be surrounded by a sea of flowers, a truly breathtaking sight.
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Mifuneyama Nature's Charm and Sakura
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Flowers and space
Mifuneyama Raku is full of flowers. It is located at the foot of Mount Mifune in Takeo City and covers 500,000 square meters. The garden was created as a resting place for the feudal ruler of these places. To get into the spirit of Japan, visit the local tea house and admire the statues of five hundred disciples of the Buddha.
How to get there
From Takeo-Onsen Station, the garden can be reached in five minutes by taxi or a 25-minute walk.
Sakura and more
In spring, many people come to Mifuneyama Raku to admire the blooming sakura, plum and azaleas. In summer, lanterns are hung here, which turn the natural colors of the garden into a fabulous landscape.
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Takeo Onsen Paradise
The lord of Takeo during the Edo period spent three years building a private garden, with beautiful scenery all year round and birds singing. Standing on the flower viewing platform overlooking the garden, the white cherry blossom forest in front of you, next spring will be another beautiful scene!
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Listen to the sound of the first cherry blossom blooming, chasing spring in Kyushu
❄️When the snow in Hokkaido has not yet melted, 💨the warm current of the Pacific has already swept across the plains of Kyushu. 🌸Through the fluttering pink petals, listen to the sound of the first cherry blossom blooming in spring🎵
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【Highlights of the trip】
⛰️Mifune Mountain Park|Cherry blossoms all over the mountains, the largest night cherry in Kyushu
🌳Isshin Sakura|A spectacular cherry blossom tree with a history of 400 years
🐻Kumamoto Bear Square|Feel the charm of the Minister of Kumamoto
🛶Yanagawa Boating|Wandering in the Venice of Japan where cherry blossoms bloom
🚁Aso Volcano Helicopter|Overlooking the world's largest broken volcano
⚒️Higo Zogan|Appreciate the unique Japanese traditional craft beauty
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【Encounter on the way】
✅Saga|Mifune Mountain Park, Arita Ceramic Park, Ceramic Coffee Shop
✅Kumamoto|Kumamoto Castle, Kumamoto Castle Square, Suizenji Jojuen Garden, Higo Zogan, Isshin Sakura, Aso Volcano, Kusasenri Beach, Kurokawa Onsen, Shirakawa Onsen
✅Fukuoka|Mai Crane Park, Fukuoka Tower, Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, Yanagawa Boating
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【Stay and stay】
🏡Kurokawa Onsen Moonlight Tree|A Japanese inn in the Michelin Kurokawa Onsen, with only 8 guest rooms. You can enjoy the hot springs from the source indoors or outdoors, and relax
🏡Shirakawa Onsen Bamboo Flute|12 independent villas in the bamboo forest each have different private hot springs, which make people and nature integrate
🏡Miyazaki Bamboo Forest Pavilion|Inside Mifune Mountain Park, enjoy the 1300-year-old Takeo Onsen in the beautiful scenery of the four seasons. Members of the royal family have stayed many times and gave high praise
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【Delicious food】
🐮Saga Beef|Together with Matsusaka beef and Kobe beef, it is known as the three major Wagyu in Japan, and the fat melts instantly when it enters the mouth
🍱Yanagawa Unagi Rice|The cooking method of baking and then steaming according to the ancient method is mouth-watering
🍜Hakata Ramen|Wheat flour noodles with rich pork bone soup, Ichiran is the representative of Hakata ramen
🐴Horse meat sashimi|Fresh horse meat is called sakura meat because of its bright pink color, and the fattest season is also the cherry blossom season
🍧Cherry Blossom Snacks|Sweet cherry cakes, crystal clear cherry jelly, cherry matcha daifuku, every bite is the taste of spring
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【Itinerary Overview】
🌸DAY1|Cherry Blossom Park, 🏺Saga Experience Arita Ceramics, Walk in Mifune Mountain Park to Enjoy Cherry Blossoms
🌸DAY2|Boating on the green waves, ⛵️Boating in Yanagawa surrounded by cherry blossoms, tasting a hundred-year-old eel rice, visiting Kumamoto Castle
🌸DAY3|Minister of Kumamoto, 🎈Experience traditional craft Higo Zogan, Kumamoto Bear Square and Minister have fun interaction, Suizenji Jojuen Garden
🌸DAY4|Volcano Gift, 🌋Visit Isshin Sakura and Kusasenri Beach, helicopter overlooking Aso Volcano, stay in Kurokawa/Shirakawa Onsen
🌸DAY5|Bonds with the Blessed Land, 🙏🏻Pray at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, relax in Mai Crane Park, free activities in Fukuoka
🌸DAY6|Farewell to Kyushu, 👋🏻Return/Continue to travel to other cities in Japan
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teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live in Japan
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live at Mifuneyama Rakuen Park.
This unique exhibit blends nature with digital art, showcasing colorful projections and illuminations against the backdrop of the park's historic landscape. teamLab's Digitized Nature project explores the idea of turning nature into art using non-destructive digital technology.
The exhibition will run until Nov 5, and the opening times change depending on the season, so remember to double-check before you go!
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After going to Teamlab in Odaiba, I finally started to brush some of the small areas of Teamlab.
After seeing the dream scene of Teamlab and Dream 787 from Nagoya Central Airport, I feel that there should be no more surprises.
I didnt expect to see another surprise in the Wuxiong Hot Springs in Nagasaki: the Mifune Mountain Paradise, and the scene that Teamlab did on the ruins really refreshed the cognition. Architecture, nature, lighting, humanities, and design are new and old, natural and man-made, and creative and decadent.
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The key issue is: Compared to the Odaiba, there are many people who have to make an appointment to enter. There are almost no tourists here, with! Just! beat! !