Wisteria Tunnel-Japan-Kawachi (Fuji)
Wisteria Tunnel-Japan-Kawachi (Fuji)💕💕💕 IT’S PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WALK through the pastel-colored passageway of wisteria flowers at the Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu without imagining an elegant fairy princess and her one-horned white steed prancing alongside you. A member of the pea family, wisteria is an ornamental vine, wildly popular in both Eastern and Western gardens for its graceful hanging flowers and its ornate, winding branches. Easily trained, the woody vines tend to reach maturity within a few years, at which point they bloom in cascades of long, lavender flowers of varying pastel shades. There are about 150 flowering wisteria plants of roughly 20 species that create this famous colorful flower tunnel. Best time to visit is from late April to mid May (depends on the weather each year). The peak is normally at the end of April to the Golden Week, between April 21 and May 6. Not every year wisteria blooms so ma...