Selected as the only one for Japan in "CNN’ Top 10 Dream destinations for 2014" the Ashikaga Flower Park will be holding its "The Tale of the Wisteria~ Large Wisteria Festival".   The size of the park is a substantial 94,000㎡, and boasts over 350 wisteria trees, allowing visitors to enjoy the sheer abundance of the beautiful flowers in bloom. Various colors of wisteria bloom in order, from pale pink, purple, white, to yellow,which allows you to enjoy all of the wisterias for about one full month.   A wisteria shelf spanning 1,000㎡ is for the 150 year old large wisteria tree with a 80m long tunnel of white wisterias. An extremely rare double-petal wisteria shelf, and the white wisteria tunnel.   It has also a beautiful light-up wisteria at night.  

Ashikaga Flower Park was the only spot in Japan that had been selected as “top 10 world Dream destinations” by CNN. The garden holds “The Great Wisteria Festival” from late April to mid-May every year. You can see the Great wisteria over 160 years old which spreads over a 600-tatami trellis area, as well as the 80m-long white wisteria tunnel, the Laburnum tunnel and more than 350 other wisteria trees in full bloom. Various colors of wisteria bloom in order, from pale pink, purple, white, to yellow, which allows you to enjoy all of the wisteria for about one full month. You also can enjoy wisteria in night because the garden would be lighted up during the festival. In 2018, the JR Railway opened JR Ashikaga Flower Park Station, which make visitors to come here easily.

With a full range of colors on display, Ashikaga Flower Park is stunning no matter the time of year. Marvel at the orange tulips, blue hydrangeas and the purple wisterias of one of Tochigi Prefecture’s best-kept secrets.

Ashikaga Flower Park is the only place in Japan chosen as one of ten “Dream Destinations” for global travel by the American news site, CNN. The park holds an illumination event in wintertime. Amazingly, for seven years in a row the park has garnered first place in the illumination category for Japan's "Illumination Award” selected by certified professionals knowledgeable about night tourism throughout Japan. This illumination event was also recognized as a Night View Heritage of Japan in 2011 and one of the three major illumination events in Kanto in 2012. This illumination event is very popular every year.

One of the largest museums of ceramics with Imari and Nabeshima collections in the world. Here， on the outskirts of Ashikaga， on 24.5 acres chosen for its picturesque scenery and taking advantage of nature， is a garden of mainly wild grass. In the garden is the main museum building， a historical building， a memorial church for unknown potters， and the pottery hall as well as the main gate， and the Holland Hall. A large feature of the museum is that it displays only Imari and Nabeshima pottery wares of the Edo period  created by the Nabeshima clan."