Ashikaga Flower Park Tours and Tickets

There are a couple of ways to experience Ashikaga Flower Park. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Chartered Private Tour—Tokyo to Nikko, Toshogu, Edo Wonderland

• Ashikaga Flowers Park Private 1-Day Tour With Pickup

Admission to Ashikaga Flower Park varies by season, depending on what is on display at the park in each month. Adult tickets cost between ¥400 and ¥2,300, and child tickets between ¥200 and ¥1,200. Mid-April to late-May is the most expensive time to visit the park, when its flower displays are at their most attractive.

To visit Ashikaga Flower Park, you can either join a guided tour—many are available from Tokyo—or travel independently. There’s no need to book a tour; however, as the park is located in southern Tochigi Prefecture, on the way to Nikko, many foreign visitors do like to visit on a tour to avoid the hassle of arranging their own transportation.

All events at Ashikaga Flower Park are seasonal, as different flowers bloom at different times of the year. Some of the park’s major events are the spring flower festival (early March to mid-April), the wisteria festival (mid-April to mid-May), the blue-and-white garden featuring irises (early June to early July), the water lilies (early July to late September), and the winter illuminations (late October to late January).

You can reach Ashikaga Flower Park from Tokyo on a tour or independently by car or train. If you’re self-driving, take the Metropolitan Expressway Kawaguchi line and the Tohoku Expressway to the park—the journey should take about two hours. The train journey from Tokyo’s Ueno station is also around two hours; take the JR Utsunomiya line to Oyama, then change to the JR Ryomo line to Ashikaga Flower Park station.

Ashikaga Flower Park is open year-round, every day, except on December 31 and the third Wednesday and Thursday of February. The park is typically open from 10am until 5pm, with the last entry at 4:30pm—although schedule more than 30 minutes for your visit. During wisteria season (mid-April to mid-May) and the winter illumination festival (late October to late January), the opening hours vary as these are very popular times to visit.