Kurihama Flower Garden Part 1

     Yesterday, we went to Kurihama Flower Garden. It is a park in the foothills not far from the Yokosuka Naval Base (about 25 minutes by car). It was a really interesting park - an open meadow filled with flowers surrounded by high hills - a series of stairs at the end of the meadow that leads to the top of ridge. Once you get to the top of the ridge, there is a park with a huge wooden play area with slides, cargo ropes and ladders. Oh, the park has one more thing - a giant replica of Godzilla. Also, there are lots of paths - most of which are shaded by huge trees filled with birds singing.

     We took lots of pictures - so I am going to make several posts about the area. The first one is pictures that I took with Macie's phone.

The sign says memorial photograph. Look at the date -
April 23, 28. 28? Japan marks the year by the number of years
the emperor has been in power. So this is the 28th year of
the Heisei period. When the current emperor dies, the Heisei
period will come to an end and the new period will begin at 1.

These are the Japanese carp windsocks - they flown from April
to early May to celebrate the children's day holiday.

This is how mom is going to get to the top of the ridge when
she visits. According to Mona and Macie, she will have company.

This is the view looking down the meadow towards Yokosuka.

It is a really peaceful walk.

This is all the varieties of flowers at the park and the display
shows when each will be in bloom. There are different flowers
that are in bloom throughout the year.

This path lead to an area that had the feel of a
temperate rain forest. Couldn't find any takers
that wanted to walk on it.