See 30 million poppies at Kōnosu Poppy Festival 2025 at Poppy Happy Square🌹💐

To join this event please see below and send me a message on LINE. Without this, you will not find out our meeting point. EVERYONE needs to do this EVERY TIME, including those who have participated with me previously.

Each year in May you can see 30 million poppies, give or take, at Japan’s largest poppy field: Poppy Happy Square. Moreover, there is a lively festival at the poppy fields during the period of bloom, which is usually mid May. The poppy festival is actually just one part of a larger Kōnosu Flower Festival. In 2024, the Kōnosu flower festival was on from May 11th to the 19th.
*Therefore we might change the event date to May 18th. We will surely know about 3 weeks in advance.

Poppy Happy Square (also known as the Mamuro Poppy Field) is acclaimed because it is the largest poppy field in the whole of Japan. It is also thanks to this that the Konosu Poppy Festival is famous throughout the Kanto plain. The Mamuro poppy field is most commonly referred to as Poppy Happy Square. It is approximately 12.5 hectares or 125,000 square meters and has over 30,000,000 poppies. Moreover, the field is located at Japan’s longest riverbed width embankment with Japan’s longest embankment bridge in view.

◾️After you have applied to join this event, please contact Mark Sensei via the Line application quoting your FULL NAME and this message: [Konosu Poppy Festival - 11th May] MARK's LINE ACCOUNT
If you would like to bring a guest, please ask me via Line.

◾️参加されるイベントの名前(フルネーム)と日付を付けてマーク先生にLINEしてください。
例:[Konosu Poppy Festival - 11th May] MARK's LINE ACCOUNT
定員の都合上、お連れ様がいる時は事前にLINEでご相談ください。

We will meet at Kōnosu station at 11.15am. Please kindly ensure you arrive punctually. It seems there is a Shonan-Shinjuku line train arriving at 11.04am

We might take the “Flower Go” 「フラワー号」Mamuro course 「馬室コース」bus from JR Konosu Station’s west exit to the kyuushoku sentaa 「給食センター」. The poppy fields are about a 5 minute walk from this bus stop. There might also be a free shuttle bus.

The thirty million poppies include the common variety, Icelandic and California poppies. They typically start blooming late in April. However, in 2024 they are actually late and as of April 25th they weren’t really blooming. The common variety are the red poppies also referred to frequently as the remembrance poppy in English.

Furthermore, other blooms grow in the fields. They have purple mustard fields most years. Moreover, in 2021, they added three Baby Blue Eye fields for the first time. Two of them are quite small, but one is a decent size and it is beside a field of Orange California Poppies.

There are food vans at the fields during the period of the festival, weather permitting. There is also a flower picking event in one of the fields. It costs 100 yen to pick five flowers.

Please bring your lunch. We will find an appropriate area to eat.

Additional fees (subject to change):
According to this blog post, there was no admission fee in 2024
There might be a bus transport charge to/from Kōnosu station ⚠️

Event fee:
¥800 - early discount if you pay by 30th April (PayPay, or in cash at an earlier event).
¥1250 if you pay between 1st-10th May early evening (PayPay, or in cash at an earlier event).
¥1500 in cash on the event day 11th May) - please bring the correct money. This, unfortunately, is only available if you've previously attended my events. First-timers need to pre-pay.

If don't have PayPay, please ask a friend or coworker to do the transaction for you (give them cash!).

Cancellation policy:

• Full refund given if cancellation is notified BY LINE MESSAGE at least 24 hours before the event start time.
• Cancellation within 24 hours of the event start time or no-showing requires full payment of the event fee.