World Azalea Center

Address
33 Yoshiki, Kusano-machi, Kurume-shi, Fukuoka
Inquiries
World Azalea Center
TEL:0942474580
Area
Kusano/Yamamoto Area (Central East Area)
Genre
Flowers and trees  /  Others
Hours of Operation
9am - 5pm
Closed
New Year’s Holidays
Parking
Standard-sized cars: 10 spaces; Buses: 2 spaces
*Visitors can also park in the Kurume Fureai Agricultural Park parking lot.
Access
By bus - Take the No. 25 Nishitetsu bus and get off at the Yamamoto stop; a 5 minute walk from there
By train - A 10 minute walk from JR Zendoji Station
世界つつじセンターのつつじ
世界つつじセンターのつつじ
The World Azalea Center opened in April of 1989 amidst an increasing interest in flowers and greenery in particular by people seeking a rich and relaxing living environment due to the diversification of lifestyles in recent years. The center was built in order to preserve, cultivate, develop, produce, and sell precious azaleas collected from around the world for Kurume City’s 100th anniversary project entitled “World Azalea Festival ’89 Kurume”. On the roughly 1 hectare (2.5 acre) premises, there is a garden where about 20 thousand mother azalea trees of 1,600 different varieties are planted, a preservation room for rare varieties of mother trees, a mist room for breeding, and more. The center is also geared towards the steady supply of high-demand varieties to breeders of azaleas, the promotion of azalea production in Kurume City, and the vitalization of the greenery business. *Recommended Flower Viewing Season* Azaleas: Early - Late April

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