Misato town lavender field, Botanical garden in Misato, Japan

Misato town lavender field is a garden with approximately 20,000 plants arranged in purple rows across multiple hectares. The site displays different varieties of lavender in one location.

Lavender cultivation in Senhata began in 1988, when the town tested nine varieties and 3,000 seedlings at seven sites under the Furusato Sōsei programme. In autumn 1991 a one-hectare field was levelled at Ōdairano, and 15,000 plants, 80% Okamurazaki, went in the following spring. The garden opened to the public in 1993; the present scale dates from 2003.

The Lavender Festival runs from mid-June to early July, with a guidance booth, food and drink stalls, paid picking sessions, and lavender ice cream. On weekends a bus called Koguma-chan circles the field. The white lavender Misato Sekka, found as a pale sport of Sakigake in 2005, was registered as variety No. 22259 on 12 February 2013 and is used by Takahashi Shuzo to brew Junmai Ginjo Misato Sekka.

The garden opens free of charge from 9:00 to 17:00 during the Lavender Festival, held from mid-June to early July; the stalls and picking sessions keep those hours, but the grounds lie within Odaidaino Park and can be walked outside them. There is no telephone at the site, so car navigation systems may not find it; a map search on a phone works better. Access is by road: Akita Expressway to Omagari IC, then the Omagari West Road to Wago IC, and routes 13 and local roads onward.

The garden cultivates a rare white lavender variety called Misato Sekka that produces pure white flowers instead of the typical purple blooms. This special variety is seldom found elsewhere.