Azalea flavored soft-serve ice cream in Michi-no-eki Nishiyama Park, Sabae City

Above is the "Tsutsuji Soft" I ate yesterday.

"Tsutsuji" is azalea, so it means "azalea flavored" here, and the "Soft" means soft-serve ice cream in Japan.

Tsutsuji Soft is a popular product of Michi-no-eki Nishiyama Park in Sabae City.

"Michi-no-eki" means roadside station which works as a traffic information center and a rest area, and it has become very popular in Japan these years.

Though it was hot as if the summer had already come yesterday, the Tsutsuji Soft was very good because it had rather light taste like Italian gelato.

Nishiyama Park is well known for a lot of azalea flowers, and by the director of the Michi-no-eki, the flowers will bloom fully in a few days and be best viewed within a week or more.