The “Montebello Rose Garden” inside Iwagahira Park is right at its best now!
↑ The entrance to Montebello Rose Garden.
↑ Apparently, this rose garden was opened to commemorate the friendship and goodwill between Ashiya City and its sister city, Montebello in California, USA.
↑ Inside the garden, there are red roses…
↑ pink roses
↑ purple roses!
↑ There are also white and yellow roses.
↑ Compared with Osaka’s Nakanoshima or Utsubo Park, it’s a smaller rose garden, but many unique varieties are in bloom.
↑ There are still plenty of buds, so it looks like the roses can be enjoyed for quite a while.
Even just taking a quick walk through the garden, the lovely scent of roses is so soothing!
We visited on a sunny Sunday, and local residents were stopping by one after another to enjoy the roses!
People were taking photos, admiring the flowers at a leisurely pace, and it also seems to be a walking route for dogs.
Here’s the map↓
The address is 22-26 Iwazono-cho, Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.
