河口湖ハーブフェスティバル/Fujikawaguchiko Herb Festival

The other day I went to Fujijkawagushiko Herb Festival. 

It's in Yamanashi prefecture. I think Yamanashi is located in a very convenient place from Tokyo. You can do a day trip over there. 

There are two main parks for this festival and I went to Yagizaki park.

After go through some souvenir shops, you see full of lavender!

At the opposite of the entrance, there is Kawaguchiko Muse Museum.

You can sit over there. Inside the museum, now they are doing a exhibition of a doll artist, Akae Yuuki.

His doll is basically made from cotton. This one is obviously not but you can get an idea of his dolls.

Alongside of the lavender, you can get a free pic taken. The free pic is small size. It seems like you've got to pay 1000yen to get a bigger one.

Many people take a photo using this pic frame.

I kinda feel this is a JP characteristic to make many different flavor ice cream. Since this festival's feature is lavender, you can get lavender flavor one. haha

To be honest, I wanted to try one but didn't have enough time.

There are other kinds of flowers in the park. It is nice to see and feel flowers since I can't have enough opportunity to do so in Tokyo which is really sad actually.....
Well one thing I hate about being in Japan is that you've got to pay for every leisure, even for going to a park to feel some nature. There is a relatively big park in Tokyo but they don't have beautiful scenery. Just plain green. Therefore, there is a business to bring people outside of Tokyo and have them see and feel nature.... for me this sounds really sad. Well probably this happens everywhere nowadays

Anyways it was a good opportunity to smell lavender and feel some nature :)