Hokkaido"nature & sightseeing" Information

　"Pastoral Gensei-kaen","Famous for the Oysters"-Akkeshi-cho

■Akkeshi-cho

　　　Akkeshi-cho which is between the eastern part of Hokkaido, Kushiro, and Nemuro, and faced the Pacific Ocean.


"The coast in Akkeshi-cho facing the Pacific Ocean"

　　　　We are known as Gensei-kaen which has a large community of an "Iris setosa" and has the pastoral atmosphere in which a horse is pastured, and a producing district of an oyster leading [ in a way ].

"An Iris setosa and the pastured horse"

■ Charm

▼ Charm part 1 ... Pastoral "Ayamegahara Gensei-kaen"

　　　Road [ which goes to the neighboring town in Akkeshi-cho, and Hamanaka-cho / sea ] "North Pacific seaside line "cape and misty road of a flower"Ayamegahara Gensei-kaen" is amplitude 100ha which spreads in the sea side to meet.

　　　The core of a flower "they are an Iris setosa (bluish purple flower) and a perennial herbaceous plant which grows in a high moor or the damp grassland.


　　 　"Ayamegahara Gensei-kaen"

　　　In Gensei-kaen, Iris setosas are in all glory all at once from the end of June to July every year, and We repaint inside a garden in skillful purple.


"The large community of an Iris setosa"

　　　In inside a garden [ this ], about ten horses are pastured and We set the pastoral atmosphere adrift.


"It is a shot about a pastoral lanscape!"

　　　For the leisure traveller who visits, it is a suitable nice shot. The shutter sound of a camera can be heard here and there inside a garden [ large ].

　
If a horse is pastured, I worry about whether a flower will be eaten!?


　 　　"-pasturing horses -OK"

　　　It is OK !. Horses are choosing and eating a weed more delicious than flowers, such as an Iris setosa. Horses eat the weed in Gensei-kaen and have served also as the setoff of an Iris setosa!

　　　 The flower exceeding 100 kinds other than a blue flag, such as Orcis aristata and Buttercup, also makes a flower bloom each time, and delights our eyes with this garden of flowers.

　　　The prospect of the Pacific Ocean which is visible from this Gensei-kaen is also brilliant.


"The Pacific Ocean which is visible from Gensei-kaen"

▼ Charm part 2 ... "Gourmet" of Akkeshi-cho

　　　The king of the gourmet of Akkeshi-cho is an "oyster." The oyster fishery of Akkeshi is the lake Akkeshi and there is a long history of from now on having been carried out a little more than 220 years before.

　　　Now -- the lake Akkeshi and the Akkeshi bay -- a fish breeding of an oyster -- a seeds-and-saplings business is also undertaken in part, and We are proud of the volume of production of Hokkaido 1.


　　　Landed "the oyster of Akkeshi"

　　　It is shipped in the name of Akkeshi brand - "Kakiemon", and taste which is fascinated is a selling point.


　　Akkeshi oyster brand " Kakiemon"

　　　Uniting in the Akkeshi neighborhood every year in seisins, such as an era when a cherry tree blooms, -- "-- although amazement is carried out and six Event, such as a cherry tree and the oyster festival ", is opened, an "oyster" certainly appears as the core any Event. The era when especially a cherry tree blooms rises.


" a cherry tree and the oyster festival "

　　　Good taste!"grilled oysters"


"brilliant maneuvering !-oysters to the stomach "


- Topic related to the oyster of Akkeshi!

　　　In the lake Akkeshi which was a fishing place of the oyster, there is a crescent type insula once called "the oyster insula (an original name is Bentenjima)" which was able to pile up and do the oyster, and fishermen have built and respected the guardian deity and the goddess of eloquence、and Benten- shrine on this insula.
　　　Then, an insula becomes small by ground subsidence and it seems to appear into a lake.


　　" Benten-shrine" in Bentenjima


▼ Charm part 3 ..."Lake Akkeshi and Bekanbeushi-wetland"

　　　The nature hidden scenic spot is located in Akkeshi-cho. There are a Bekanbeushi-wetland and connected with the lake　Akkeshi. "
　　　The lake Akkeshi and the Bekanbeushi-wetland" became the Record paludal of the Ramsar Convention aiming at an asylum of a waterfowl in Heisei 5.

　　　This wetland is made from the wetland of a low layer and upper layers, and distribution of a plant has the feature, and also it is an attractive wetland at which a Japanese crane and a whooper swan drop in.


In this side, the "Bekanbeushi-wetland"、
　　 back is the "Lake　Akkeshi."

■ Picture provided

* The Akkeshi-cho 　town planning furtherance room ... 0153-52-3131

* HP of a town is "here."