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Shikisai-no-Oka Flower Hills
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Shikisai-no-Oka Flower Hills

📍 Hokkaido, Biei

Fifteen hectares of Biei hillside striped in ribbon-bands of flowers — ride a tractor-pulled 'Norokko' wagon through the color, then feed the alpacas at the ranch on top. Peak stripes run late July through September.

Biei’s rolling farmland is famous for looking like a patchwork quilt; Shikisai-no-Oka is where somebody deliberately turned fifteen hectares of it into rainbow stripes.

Why It’s Interesting

The name means “hill of four-season colors,” and the planting is engineered so ribbon-bands of different flowers — sunflowers, salvia, dahlias, marigolds, lavender, dozens more across the year — run in parallel curves over the hill crests, with the Tokachi mountain range as backdrop. It’s unashamedly a spectacle farm, and the infrastructure leans in: a tractor-pulled “Norokko” wagon trundles visitors through the fields, rentable buggies cover the far corners, and a resident alpaca ranch sits at the top. Crucially for a late-summer trip, its peak runs later than Furano’s famous lavender — late July through late September the stripes are at their fullest, making it the anchor flower stop for an August visit to the Biei-Furano corridor (and an easy pairing with the nearby Blue Pond).

Best Time to Visit

Late July through September for the fullest striped displays; August mid-mornings get tour buses, so arrive at opening or late afternoon.

Getting There

On Biei’s “Patchwork Road” driving circuit, about 40 minutes from Furano; by rail, Bibaushi Station on the JR Furano Line is a 25-minute walk or short taxi away.

🐿️ Cinnamon was here

Field report

Shikisai-no-Oka stripes fifteen hectares of Biei hillside in ribbon-bands of flowers, and the correct way to see it is the way I did: from the Norokko tractor wagon that trundles the paths, then on foot (paw) down the rows themselves, then from the alpaca ranch at the top, where the alpacas observe the colors with the weariness of staff.

Peak stripes run July through September, and the scale is honest — this is a working flower farm the size of a neighborhood, not a photo set, though it is also unavoidably a photo set. I contributed to three strangers' foregrounds without being asked.

Biei's blue pond is minutes away; do both. Buy the lavender bun. Greet the alpacas as equals; they will not reciprocate, and that's their right.

— Cinnamon 🐿️

📸 Cinnamon's camera roll

Snapshots from our very good boy on the road.

Down in the ribbon-bands from the Norokko tractor wagon, then on paw through the rows. I contributed to three strangers' foregrounds without being asked.
The alpaca ranch at the top, where staff-weary alpacas observe the flowers. Mon-chan greeted the fluffiest as an equal and was noticed, which he counts as a win.
Striped flower fields at Shikisai-no-Oka
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
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