Fukui

Echizen Lotus Photo Collection - 2

Playing hide-and-seek with lotus flowers in Fukui!

Takako Sakamoto Aug 14, 2014 - 1 min read

<p>It looks like a maze underneath large leaves of lotus flowers. Good place for hide-and-seek!</p>

<p>It looks as though a couple in love is taking a shower together</p>

<p>This one looks like a lotus-shaped lantern in the dark</p>

<p>I'd never seen filaments of lotus without petals like this before. Interesting!</p>

<p>These flowers are almost red, so rich in color</p>

<p>Close-up look at a couple in love</p>

<p>Look at the waves lotus leaves are creating! This lotus is like a slim lighthouse lit-up in a green, stormy sea!</p>

<p>This one adamantly takes a different direction from others</p>

<p>Unique way leaves spread out and lotus tilts its head</p>

Hanahasu Koen (Lotus Park) in Southern Echizen, Fukui, is HUGE! Not only does it have several ponds inside the park, but it also has a vast lotus field in front of it. Some of the lotus flowers there are taller than I am, and most of the photos in this story were taken underneath tall lotus leaves. Since they are all in a lotus field, not in a pond, you can get really close to them and peek inside the maze of lotus stems. It was as though I was playing hide-and-seek with millions of lotus flowers. I totally lost track of time and like a child kept playing with them, and it was fantastic!

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Takako Sakamoto @takako.sakamoto

I was born in and grew up in Tokushima prefecture, and have lived in many places since then: Nishinomiya, Kyoto, Nara, Mie, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Fukuoka and Fukui. I am currently living in Yokohama City. All the places I lived, all the places I visited, I have loved dearly. The histor...