Full-day tour from Osaka or Kyoto: Awaji Island Flower Corridor & Ladybug Path & A Happy Pancake
Last updated: September 13, 2026
Awaji Island's photogenic side, threaded into one day from Osaka: the coach crosses the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge — the world-famous suspension span — to the Flower Corridor at Awaji Hanasajiki, where a carpet of seasonal blooms rolls down the northern hills at 298 metres with the Seto Inland Sea behind every frame. The west coast follows: Ladybird Road's colourful houses and island-produce restaurants against blue water, the sky staircase of the Shiawase no Pancake terrace stepping toward the sunset, and a 30-minute all-you-can-eat turn in a seasonal fruit orchard — strawberries, grapes or Awaji's famous oranges, depending on the month.
Itinerary
Route
Departure
- Start point: Kani Doraku Dotonbori East Store
- Stop at: Awaji Hanasajiki (Flower Corridor)
- Stop at: Ladybird Road
- Stop at: Awajishima Fruit Orchards
- Stop at: A Happy Pancake Awajishima Terrace
- End point: Kani Doraku Dotonbori East Store
Frequently Asked Questions
Awaji Hanasajiki replants its hillside by season — rape blossoms in spring, blue salvia and sunflowers in summer, cosmos in autumn, stocks through the mild winter — so the great flower carpet never looks the same twice. The sea fills the horizon beyond it in every season.
A strip of brightly coloured buildings along Awaji's west coast that has become the island's favourite photo street, gathering around ten restaurants that cook with island produce — Awaji onions, Awaji beef and local seafood — between the lens-friendly facades and the sea.
The 30-minute all-you-can-eat farm stop follows the calendar: strawberries in the cooler months, grapes in late summer, and Awaji's speciality citrus through winter. Whatever is ripening, you pick it straight from the plant at its sweetest.
The seaside stairway at the Shiawase no Pancake Awajishima terrace, built to climb photogenically toward open sky over the water — at sunset, with the Seto Inland Sea turning gold behind it, it produces the picture half the island's visitors came for.