Episode 238 - Hidden Treasures

We discovered this flower park on our way to Kitami City.

According to the information available, this place is called Kitami-shi Onneyu Hot Spring Flower Park, which is ancillary to an Agricultural Interchange Centre, established to facilitate the agricultural development of the district.

The park is not publized as a sightseeing point in the Kitami-shi official website, likely due to the nature / purposes of its establishment.  We saw an uphill direction road sign, in respect of the flower park, after visiting the Onneyu Hot Spring Roadside Rest Area.  We followed the sign and reach the garden shortly.

In this Hokkaido journey, we intended to skip over those sightseeing points which would always packed with groups of tourists.  Hence we bypassed the flower beds in Furano and Biei.  We did not know some beautiful flowers were awaiting us in Kitami.

Every tourists attraction had a time when very few people noticed of its existence.  Whether this site will become popular in the future is not a matter for me to judge.  One basic rule in my self-help travelling handbook is that a traveller needs to have a sense of curiosity, without which one will miss a treasure trove even if it is in a within reach distance.