Here in Gyoda, you can enjoy the mysterious beauty of “Gyoda-hasu”, ancient lotus flowers, which have awoken from a long slumber of 3,000 years. In this park, you can see some 120,000 lotus plants of 42 types blooming all over the ponds from middle of June to early August. If you go up the observation tower of the Ancient Lotus Museum on the premises between mid-July and mid-October, you can appreciate a magnificent work of “rice-paddy art” spreading over the fields. It’s a huge picture painted on the canvas of rice paddies depicting people, patterns, letters, and so on, using different kinds of rice plants.
