Fuji Shibazakura Festival, (Yamanashi)

With Mount Fuji in the background, some 800,000 stalks of shibazakura or "moss phlox" cover 2.4 hectares of land in a carpet of pink, white and purple. Thousands travel to the Fuji Five Lakes area for the festival celebrating the flower's first bloom, which runs April 18 to May 31 this year.
Fuji Shibazakura Festival, 212 Motusu, Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, Japan; +81 555 89 3031