Hitachi Seaside Park | Japan
- Apr 28, 2017
- 2 min read
Hitachi Seaside Park is not near Tokyo. Getting to there took us about 2.5hrs by public transport from Ueno station, which meant almost 4 hrs from our hotel. The thought of travelling 4 hours just to see flowers was a turn off at first, but Kenneth was really really interested being the uncle soul he is. No regrets for me, the view is really worth 4hrs of travelling.
How to get there?
We took the route in the as shown in the blue diagram above. From Ueno station get on a train from Joban line to Katsuta Station, this would have taken you almost 2hrs. From there, just as you exit the station there would be people with sign boards telling you there's a bus to Hitachi Seaside Park. Just follow the sign and you will see some obasan selling tickets for the bus rides (to and fro) and the park tickets at 1200 yen. Getting tickets from them really saved us time as we didn't need to figure out what buses to take and didn't need to queue for admission tickets once there.
Food and drinks are available inside the park, there are many food trucks and store in the area, do expect long queues for food and beverages as well as washrooms. Don't worry though the public toilets in Japan are soooo clean not kidding. Since travelling to the Park itself took 4 hrs, we spent half a day there 9.30-3+pm, yes we wake up at 5+ cause sunrise was as early as 4+am. Every morning I would jump out of bed thinking it's late we gotta go out and not waste time sleeping then I realised It's just 4.30 am WTS. That said, sunset was early too 5-5.30pm felt like 8pm.
Things to take note : Do check what season flower blooms during your view. For us we went late apr - early may, which was the ending period for cherry blossom, we were lucky to spot a few remaining sakura trees. You can check the flower season from their website I have listed below.
Hitachi Seaside Park
Address : 字大沼-605-4 Mawatari, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture 312-0012, Japan
Website : http://en.hitachikaihin.jp/information.html
Opening hours : 9:30–17:00 (March 1 – July 20, September 1 – October 31), 9:30–18:00 (July 21 – August 31), 9:30–16:30 (November 1 – end of February)
Park closed on Mondays, Closed on Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday.
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