Sightseeing areas nearby
Our hotel is surrounded by nature and full of sightseeing spots that take advantage of this rich environment!
The perfect location to be away from your hectic life to relax and refresh yourself.
In addition, since our hotel is located directly in the middle of Hiroshima prefecture,
we receive many visitors who stay here as a base to sightsee the various sights in Miyajima, Kure, Takehara, Ookunoshima, Onomichi, etc.
10 minutes by car (Daiwa cho)
SMILE-LABO HIROSHIMA
A tourist farm in Daiwa cho, Mihara city, Hiroshima prefecture!
Visitors can enjoy picking strawberries, cherries, blueberries, grapes, pears, apples, etc.
The farm also has a lawn plaza overlooking Hiroshima airport for families and friends to enjoy outdoor activities.
TEL 0847-34-0005
December through February: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Hakuryuko Tourist Farm
Enjoy fruit picking during any of the four seasons! Work out at the golf park and enjoy some BBQ with your family and friends in front of a traditional Japanese-style house. Take a breather at cafe “Casata” with some gelato ice cream or their shaved ice that uses plenty of fruits from their farm.
Address: 398 Oogusa, Daiwa-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL: 0847-34-0234
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Roadside Station: Yogansu Hakuryu
In addition to the fresh local vegetables and fruits such as lotus roots and peaches, they sell wild game and specialty barley and original brand products.The restaurant serves creative Italian cuisine using local and authentic ingredients to make their stone oven-baked pizzas, pastas, etc.
Address: 652-3 Waki, Daiwa-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL: 0847-35-3022
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Kariya Riding Club
Do you want to experience horseback riding in the great outdoors of Daiwa cho? If so, then come on by to refresh your body and soul from all the busy work and study! Our experienced staff will carefully provide guidance to everyone, even beginners. We even have an area with a rooftop so visitors will not need to worry about rain or sunburn.
Address: 573-1 Mukunashi, Daiwa-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL: 0847-34-1089
Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
20 minutes by car (near Hiroshima airport)
Sankeien Park
A Japanese miniature mountain garden for strolling with a large pond in the center. This park has an area of about 6 hectares and was made to commemorate the opening of Hiroshima airport. A garden based on the motifs of mountains and valleys of Hiroshima prefecture, as well as the scenery from the Seto Inland sea. The park consists of three zones, the mountain, the village, and the sea zones blessed by the great nature.
Address: 64-24 Zennyuji, Hongo-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL 0848-86-9200
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
HATTENDO VILLAGE
A “food theme park” that is based in front of Hiroshima airport. Full of hands-on facilities and shops for visitors to enjoy the experience of “eating, making, seeing, buying.” Among various hands-on experiences, bread and pizza making are especially popular with parents and kids, as well as couples.
Address: 10064-190 Youkurasan, Zennyuji, Hongo-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL 0848-86-8622
Hours: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
30 minutes by car (Sera cho, Mihara city, Fukutomi cho)
Sera Wisteria Garden
A flower field of Lupine, Poppy, etc. bloom within this expansive garden for visitors to spend a moment of relaxation and peace. In addition, as many as 1,000 Wisterias decorate over your head. A spectacular view of a flower tunnel with many various colors including pink, white, purple, etc.
Address: 478-82 Yasuda, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-22-0020
Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Flower Station Sera
The “Flower Station Sera” connects people with nature, and is an all-weather flower farm spread out over a vast of hill of 7 hectares. Please take the time to fully enjoy the largest flower art of Japan or the adorable flowers that color the plateau. In addition, there is a vehicle-accessible campsite and an area where visitors can play with baby goats.
Address: 413-20 Kongen-san, Kurobuchi, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-27-1555
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Flower village: Kamu-no-Sato
A flower tourist farm of “a hill of moss phlox and nemophila flowers.” Within the park are 4 colors of moss phlox that covers an entire hill, while the warm light, blue sky and greenery from the mountains color the spring landscape.
Address: 3-3 Kamizuta, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-39-1734
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sera Yume Park and Sera Winery
A charming communal garden for children to fully enjoy picnics and recreation, as well as family-oriented sports such as ground golfing, etc. The winery that sources their grapes from Sera is also a park to enjoy dining, shopping, and a tour of the brewery, etc.
Address: 518-1 Kurobuchi, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-25-4300
Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Buttsu-ji temple
A temple built in 1397 by Kobayakawa Shunpei to welcome the zen master Guchu Shukyu, a famous monk who had traveled to China for training during the Yuan Dynasty. Known as one of the most mysterious areas in the world of Zen, the fresh greenery of summer and the autumn leaves in fall are incredible, with many tourists stopping by during those seasons.
Address: 22 Takasaka-cho, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima
TEL 0848-66-3502
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Roadside Station: Kohan-no-Sato Fukutomi
A roadside station located on the lakeside of the Fukutomi prefectural dam. In addition to the communal plaza area with 21 types of attractions such as the free large playground equipment to the day-only campsite, there are shops selling local specialties and restaurants, and food-related exchange centers. This is a facility for children and adults alike to enjoy.
Address: 1506 Kuba, Fukutomi-cho, Higashi-Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima
TEL 082-435-2110
Hours: 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
40 minutes by car (Sera cho, Saijo cho, Takehara city)
Sera Kogen Farm
Centering on about 800 pink showers of weeping cherries, variously colored spring flowers are in splendid bloom. Approximately 750,000 tulips are planted in different designs per flower field, and the “flower drawing” made from the flower patterns are simply stunning.
Address: 1124-11 Bessako, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-24-0014
Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Kozan Lavender Hill
A natural and rustic tourist farm surrounded by the green mountains for visitors to feel the changing seasons up close. Visitors can even purchase herb seedlings that have been carefully grown one by one. Popular menus at the cafe are the herb tea lavender coffee, not to mention their blueberry soft-serve ice cream and more.
Address: 794-9 Bessako, Sera-cho, Sera-gun, Hiroshima
TEL 0847-24-1108
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saijo Sake Brewery Street
Come take a stroll through the varied townscape full of Saijo’s unique sake breweries with their signature red brick chimney as its sign and other breweries with contrasting walls covered with black square tiles jointed with raised white plaster, as well as the senbon-koushi townhouses.
TEL 082-421-2511
(Saijo Sake Brewery Street Tourist Information Center)
Hours: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Takehara Townscape Preservation District
Takehara has been called the “Aki province of Little Kyoto” due to its history as a flourishing manor of Shimogamo-jinja shrine in Kyoto during the Heian period. This calm and quaint townscape has been selected as a nationally important preservation district of historic buildings. Let’s take a stroll through the retro-town of Takehara.
Address: 3 Honmachi, Takehara-shi, Hiroshima and others
TEL 0846-22-7745 (Takehara City Industry Promotion Division)
Hours: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Annual Highlights Calendar
Daiwa cho is full of blessings from nature. Please enjoy fruit-picking throughout the year.
| Spring | March | Farewell and welcoming parties Doll's Festival Strawberry picking Wild foraging |
Strawberry | ||
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| April | Surrounded by the thousand cherry blossoms of Lake Hakuryu... Delivery of bento boxes for cherry blossom viewing Wild forage cuisine A tour through Sera Kogen Farm for the weeping cherries, tulips, moss phlox, wisteria, poppies, etc. |
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| May | A stroll through the fresh greenery Boy’s Day Rice planting of Lake Hakuryu rice |
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| Summer | June | Firefly hunting Astronomical observations at the observatory |
Blueberry | ||
| July | Day of eels Deliver eel bento boxes Sweetfish fishing ban lifted swimming allowed (pool in the river) Riverside Festival Sweetfish grabbing Tanabata Festival Beer garden Collecting beetles and stag beetles Blueberry picking |
Peach | |||
| August | Class and alumni reunions Pear picking begins |
Grape | Pear | ||
| Fall | September | Respect for the elderly gathering Grape picking and moon viewing Harvesting the Lake Hakuryu rice Harvesting the Abe white peaches |
Apple | ||
| October | Matsutake mushroom cuisine Apple and chestnut picking Autumn leaves picking Daiwa cho Genki Festival |
Chestnut | |||
| November | Green Marathon Year-end parties starts |
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| Winter | December | Year-end parties Year-end Hawaiian Party |
Strawberry | ||
| January | Deliver New Year’s cuisine Tondo Festival New Year’s party Rice-cake making |
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| February | Deliver Setsubun Ehomaki sushi Hot Pot Festival Valentines Day Chocolate Gifts |
