
Shibata Ayame Festival
It is held at the Ayame Garden in the Ikonomino [Ijimino] park, which has been selected as one of Japan's 100 city parks. About 300 kinds of as many as 600,000 irises (Hanashoub) compete in bloom at the Ayame Garden, which has a large site of 18,000 square meters. It is said to be one of the four largest Ayame gardens in Japan because of its size, and it is crowded with many tourists every year. Light up (18 to 21 o'clock) is carried out every day during the period. The sight of irises is from mid to late June.