The combination of windmills and sunflowers of Nunobiki Highlands creates a superb view.

Nunobiki Highlands (approx. 1,000 meters above sea level), located in Koriyama City, south of Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture, is also known as the “Kaze no Kogen (Highlands of the Wind).”

Nunobiki Highlands is lined with 33 huge windmills for wind power generation. The scenery of windmills spinning round and round in the wind is spectacular. These windmills form one of the largest wind farms in Japan.

＜Highlights of Nunobiki Highlands＞

The fields of rape blossoms in spring, sunflowers in summer, and cosmos in autumn.

Around the giant windmills, you can enjoy a breathtaking scenery of flowers at different seasons of the year. You can see the fields of rape blossoms in spring, sunflowers in summer, and cosmos in autumn.

The observation deck at the Nunobiki Highlands

If you go up to the observation deck at the Nunobiki Highlands, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the Lake Inawashiro and Mount Bandai to the north, the Nasu Mountains to the south, and white windmills to the surrounding area.

Festival of the Highlands of the Wind

Nunobiki Highlands is also famous as a production area of radish. At the “Kaze no Kogen Matsuri (Festival of the Highlands of the Wind),” you can experience harvesting radishes and cabbages.