iPhone photos and videos of the beautiful scenery in Japan.

You can take beautiful picture of plum blossoms in Soga area in Odawara city.
Odawara is famous for the beautiful castle and for the gateway to the Hakone hot springs resort area.

From February to March, about 35,000 plums in Soga area are in full bloom all at once.
At this time plum festival that you can see many kinds of plum trees is taken place in 3 plum forests – Nakagawara grove, Hara grove and Bessho grove.

I also like the photo spot that is located on top of the hill on the edge of the town.
About 20 minutes walk from the venue of the festival take you to the place with a fine view where you can see Mt.Fuji in the distance.
There are few people around there,so I could take many time to take pictures.
I took this photo by 3.5x zoom of iPhone11ProMax.

3 Mar. 2019

7 Feb. 2018

I took this picture with 3 times zoom by iPhone7 Plus.

You can see the beautiful scenery of Sagami Bay on the left.

17 Feb. 2016

16 Feb. 2015

Information

The best time to see plum blossoms

Between early and late February

Admission free

free

Access

15 minute walk from Shimo-Soga Station