Cosmos are in full bloom at the Kyoto Tanba/Kameoka Yume Cosmos Garden, which spreads out to the east of Kameoka Sports Park Gymnasium (Sogabe-cho, Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture). This year, the intense heat and lack of rain delayed the flowers from blooming, but the field of flowers that has burst into full bloom as if in anticipation gives a sense of autumn's arrival.
The event is now in its 25th year, organized by an executive committee made up of local residents. Eight million cosmoses of 20 varieties are grown in a four-hectare field. The best time to see them is until the end of October.
A variety of flowers, including large and double-flowered, are in bloom, and a 70-year-old man who came with his wife from Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture for the first time enjoyed a stroll, saying, "There's so much to see, with so many different colors, including yellow and white."
