[Cherry blossoms with beautiful reflections]

📍Gourd Pond, Ehime Prefecture Gourd Pond is a small pond located in Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku. It is famous as a cherry blossom spot and is also known as "Ishida's Gourd Pond". Although it is named "gourd", the outer edge of the pond is mostly straight and far from the roundness of a gourd. On the Internet and social media, you can find voices from people who know Gourd Pond saying, "It's not a gourd at all!" As for its actual shape, if you look at a map or aerial photograph, you can see that the center of the pond is slightly narrowed in the north-south direction. In addition, the northern end is shaped like the "stem" of a gourd, so it may have really been a gourd-shaped in the past. #0 yen trip January 2025