No, this is not Netherland! This is still in Hokkaido, Japan. The Kamiyubetsu Tulip Park has 1.2 million tulips of 120 varieties, some of which were directly imported from Netherland. But did you know that tulips do not really originated from Holland? They were originally cultivated in the Ottoman Empire which is the present day Turkey and were imported to Holland in the 16th century.

Well anyway, I have been to this foremost tulip garden in the Hokkaido region numerous times. It was one of my favorite destinations in spring so I always recommend this park to my friends visiting Hokkaido during spring. The park usually opens from the start of May to early June every year.

The park is located in Kamiyubetsu, Yubetsu town in the northern part of Kitami city along Oketo National Route (National Route 242). The tulip garden was started in 1957 and was only designated as the Tulip Park by the town’s government in 1988. Measuring about 7 hectares, rows of different colored tulips were looking like rainbow fields. Admission fee is worth 500 yen.