While the cherry blossoms in most locations in Osaka, Nara and Kyoto have faded, but only 1 hour by train from Kyoto, the cherry blossom road in Makino is currently at its peak.
The closest train station to this location is Makino Station. Address: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dVL7RAMiR2wEjhdo6
Kaidzu-Osaki cherry blossom road is about 2km from Makino station, we can walk or rent bicycles at the shops in front of the train station to go.
Address of cherry blossom road: https://maps.app.goo.gl/e5EXbgosjiRBcABBA
Bicycle rental shop address: https://maps.app.goo.gl/T8EL2RKh7WVvo7icA
The bicycles here are all power assisted bicycles, with rental prices of 1000 JPY for 3 hours and 1500 JPY for 6 hours of rental. However, you will have to return the car before 5pm. For this reason, I decided not to rent a car, because I wanted to comfortably watch the sunset on this road.
Makino is a really peaceful town, not as crowded as other famous tourist destinations, allowing you to slowly enjoy the beautiful scenery here.
This town is located right next to Lake Biwa, Japan's largest freshwater lake. So we can also easily find beautiful views overlooking the lake like this.
There are more than 800 Somei Yoshino peach trees along 4km of this road.
We can walk along this road to admire the scenery, or we can rent a boat to row in Lake Biwa.
Or if you don't want to row a boat, there will also be sightseeing boats like this to serve tourists:
The scenery in Kaidzu-Osaki reminds me of Ine fishing village in Kyoto. It's really similar, from the scenery to the peace here. (You can read my article about Ine and Amanohashidate fishing villages here THIS).
I will locate this cherry blossom tree here so you can easily find it: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jRfeGugBnqpCF4yT7
Today is a very beautiful sunny day, so my photos today don't need too much editing, because the original photos are already very beautiful.
The surface of Lake Biwa is also very calm, without many ripples, so I really like taking photos of the boats here. Like floating on a lake.
In addition, the flower branches and sparkling lake surface are also my favorite "subjects" here.
At the end of the road there will be a point where you can buy tickets to board a sightseeing cruise. Each ride takes about 50 minutes, and the ticket price is 2,500 JPY/person.
In addition, there are also many restaurants that you can try. Here, they serve dishes such as Udon, tempura, roasted chestnuts, or seafood dishes, etc. In front of the restaurant are also two extremely large weeping peach trees, and have a very beautiful dark pink color.
At the end of the road there is a temple called Osaki Dera, located on the mountain, but without having to climb too much, so I also climbed up to visit.
Address of Osaki Dera Temple: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DDtCFwNingqNb6g27
In front of the temple there is also an ancient cherry blossom tree, very large and in mankai (the most blooming time).
After a few minutes of sitting here and resting, I walked back in time to catch the sunset at Lake Biwa. The time I started coming back was around 4:30 p.m.
The golden sunlight of the sunset also changes the color of the cherry blossoms to a different color, very strange 😀
After walking for a while, I returned to the cherry blossom tree that I photographed in the morning.
Join me here to admire the scenery and see if I can catch any beautiful moments 😀
At this point, the sun was gradually setting behind the mountain, so I quickly moved to other locations to capture more angles.
Here I met a friend from Hong Kong, and took photos with her until sunset.
Believe me, the scenery in real life is much more beautiful than in the photos.
This is really a place you should go during cherry blossom season. You can admire the flowers and see the peaceful town located next to the vast Biwa Lake, without being overcrowded like other cherry blossom viewing locations. My full photo session lasts about 6 hours, from 1pm to 7pm, so you should plan your time here accordingly.
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