Botanical garden In Japan
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| 1．Kana Garden (Hiratsuka, Japan) |
| Kana Garden (Japanese: 花菜ガーデン), with its official name of Kanagawa Prefectural Center for Close Contact with Flowers and Greenery translated into English, is a botanical garden located in Teradanawa, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan. |
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| 2．Kawachi Wisteria Garden |
| Kawachi Wisteria Garden (Japanese: 河内藤園 Kawachi fujien)[1] is a private garden located in Kitakyushu founded by Higuchi Masao.[2]The garden contains over 20 kinds of wisterias in a 10,000m2 area.[3]CNN listed the garden among Japan's 31 most beautiful places,[4] and this greatly increased its visitors; access is now limited to timed, advance-purchase tickets.[5] |
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| 3．Aritaki Arboretum |
| The Aritaki Arboretum (アリタキアーボレータム, Aritaki Āborētamu) is a private arboretum located at 2566 Koshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan. Its curator, Tadahiko Aritaki, traveled and collected plants throughout Asia. 35°54′00″N 139°47′23″E / 35.90000°N 139.78972°E / 35.90000; 139.78972 |
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| 4．Suma Rikyu Park |
| The Suma Rikyu Park (須磨離宮公園, Suma Rikyū Kōen, 82.6 hectares) is a park with botanical garden located at Higashi Suma 1-1, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. It is open daily except Thursdays; an admission fee is charged. The park was created in 1967 on the general model of the Palace of Versailles park. It includes about 230 types of trees, substantial gardens of iris (40 varieties), rose (160 varieties), and camellia, as well as a botanical garden with greenhouse, collections of hydrangea, peony, and cherry trees (20 varieties), a Japanese garden, tea ceremony rooms, a drive lined with maple trees, etc. The park also includes fountains, a picnic area and restaurant, playground, and an athletic pathway with 28 stations. |
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| 5．Southeast Botanical Gardens |
| The Southeast Botanical Gardens (東南植物楽園, Tōnan Shokubutsu Rakuen) is a commercial botanical garden located in the city of Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The garden is open daily; an admission fee is charged.[1][2] The gardens covers 100 acres (40.47 ha) and contain over 2,000 plant species, including some 450 species of palms, as well as flowers, fruit trees, a Polynesian Lake with carp, and an insect collection. |
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| 6．Fuji Bamboo Garden |
| The Fuji Bamboo Garden (富士竹類植物園 Fuji Chikurui Shokubutsuen?) is Japan’s only botanical garden specializing in bamboo. Fuji Bamboo Garden is located in Nagaizumi, which is part of Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture (southwest of Tokyo). The garden is located at the base of Mount Fuji, from where the garden's name originated. The garden occupies over 2 acres of land. Fuji Bamboo Garden is said to be the world’s largest collection of bamboo, holding more than 450 varieties of bamboo from all around the world. The garden contains approximately 100,000 bamboo plants. The types of bamboo in the garden range from black bamboo to moso bamboo. The garden has benches to sit on, as well as bamboo sheds each holding a special type of bamboo. |
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| 7．Hatoyama Hall |
| Hatoyama Hall (鳩山会館, Hatoyama Kaikan), also known as the Otowa Palace (音羽御殿, Otowa Goten), is a Western-style residence in Bunkyō, Tokyo commissioned in 1924 by Ichirō Hatoyama, and it was here that he helped form the present Liberal Democratic Party. The house and gardens are in the process of evolving into a museum commemorating the Hatoyama family's contributions to politics and education in Japan.[1] |
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| 8．Man'yō botanical garden |
| A Man'yō botanical garden is a Japanese form of botanical garden that attempts to contain every species and variety of plant mentioned in the Nara period Man'yōshū poetry anthology. It is somewhat similar to a Shakespeare garden in the English-speaking world. Specific Man'yō gardens include: |
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| 9．Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens |
| The Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens (北海道大学植物園, Hokkaidō Daigaku Shokubutsuen, 13.3 hectares) are botanical gardens operated by Hokkaido University. They are located at North 3, West 8, Chūō-ku,[1] Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan, and open daily; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were established in 1886 as part of the Old Sapporo Agricultural College, and are now the second oldest botanical gardens in Japan (after Koishikawa Botanical Garden). Today they form part of the university's School of Agriculture, and contain a small part of the forest formerly covering the Ishikari Plain, plus collections of over 4,000 plant species, including alpine plants, wild plants from Hokkaidō, and the oldest lilac in Sapporo. Serious typhoon damage was sustained in 2004. |
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| 10．Ibaraki Botanical Garden |
| The Ibaraki Botanical Garden (茨城県植物園, Ibaraki-ken Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden and arboretum located at 4589 To, Naka, Ibaraki, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1981, and now contains a rose garden, aquatic plant garden, rock garden; collections of camellias, conifers, and tropical fruit trees; and a tropical greenhouse. All told, the garden contains about 70 bird species and 600 plant species, including 240 species of tropical plants, with approximately 360 types of trees in its arboretum. |
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| 11．Mito Municipal Botanical Park |
| The Mito Municipal Botanical Park (水戸市植物公園, Mito-shi Shokubutsu Kōen) is a botanical garden located at 504 Kobuki, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. The garden contains a terrace, rock garden, lawn, water features, and greenhouses heated from burning waste in the adjoining garbage disposal center. |
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| 12．Kairaku-en |
| Kairaku-en (偕楽園, Kairakuen Park) is a Japanese garden located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Along with Kenroku-en and Koraku-en, it is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. |
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| 13．Kawaguchi Green Center |
| The Kawaguchi Green Center (川口市立グリーンセンター, Kawaguchi Shiritsu Gurīnsentā), sometimes also called the Botanical Garden of Kawaguchi-City, is a city park and botanical garden located at Araijuku 700, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan. Admission is 300 yen for adults and 100 yen for children. The garden was established in 1967, and contains fountains, plum trees, and topiary pieces, as well as greenhouses with collections including banana, bougainvillea, lotus (Nymphaea), orchids, and succulent plants. |
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| 14．Ōmiya Park |
| Ōmiya Park (大宮公園, Ōmiya Kōen) is a public park located 1 km northeast of Ōmiya Station and the most visited park in Saitama. The park encompasses a huge area of 67.9ha (as of 2004) and is famous for Japanese Red Pine forest and cherry blossoms. In particular, the park ranks in the Top 100 Locations in Japan for Cherry Blossoms. |
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| 15．Musashi Kyūryō National Government Park |
| Musashi Kyūryō National Government Park (国営武蔵丘陵森林公園, Kokuei Musashi Kyūryō Shinrin Kōen) is a national government park located on the Hiki Hills (比企丘陵, Hiki Kyūryō) of the town of Namegawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is also known as a National forest park. In 1974, it opened as the first National Government Park. The park covers a vast area of forest and offers opportunities for various outdoor activities. The park has four entrances: the Central, North, West, and South Entrances. It takes roughly 80 minutes to walk the 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the South Entrance to the North Entrance and 30 minutes from the West to the Central Entrance, a distance of 1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi). |
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| 18．Shinjuku Gyo-en |
| Shinjuku Gyo-en (新宿御苑, literally 'Shinjuku Imperial Garden') or Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is a large public garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. It later became a garden under the management of Japan Imperial Household Agency. It is now a national garden under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment. |
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| 19．Makino Memorial Garden |
| Makino Memorial Garden (牧野記念庭園, Makino Kinen Teien) is located in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan and dedicated to the life and works of Makino Tomitarō, "Father of Japanese Botany". |
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| 20．Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden |
| Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden (向島百花園, Mukōjima Hyakkaen) is an urban garden located in Sumida, Tokyo. The garden was created by a merchant, and is different from daimyō gardens, and therefore it not a "traditional Japanese garden" in the proper sense of the term. It is the only surviving flower garden from the Edo period. Mukōjima comes from the region's old name, Hyakkaen was chosen to mean "a garden with a hundred flowers that bloom throughout the four seasons". The garden covers an area of about 10,886 m2. |
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| 21．Ueno Park |
| Ueno Park (上野公園, Ueno Kōen) is a spacious public park in the Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the temple of Kan'ei-ji. Amongst the country's first public parks, it was founded following the western example as part of the borrowing and assimilation of international practices that characterizes the early Meiji period. The home of a number of major museums, Ueno Park is also celebrated in spring for its cherry blossoms and hanami. In recent times the park and its attractions have drawn over ten million visitors a year, making it Japan's most popular city park.[2] |
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| 22．Kiba Park |
| Kiba Park (木場公園, kiba kōen) is a Tokyo metropolitan park in Kōtō, Tokyo. The park includes jogging paths, playgrounds, tennis courts, a BBQ area, and spaces for events. The park is divided into two parts, north and south, connected by a pedestrian bridge. The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is located in this park. |
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| 23．Jindai Botanical Garden |
| The Jindai Botanical Garden (神代植物公園, Jindai shokubutsu kōen) is at the edge of the Musashino plateau just above Jindaiji Temple in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan. It extends across 425,433 square meters, and each of its thirty areas features varieties of one kind of plant. Displays of ume, cherries, azalea, dogwood, peonies, roses, wisteria or other can be seen every month. In front of the temple below there is also a wetland annex for aquatic plants, where irises are cultivated. |
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| 24．Mizumoto Park |
| Mizumoto Park (水元公園, Mizumoto Kōen) is a park in Katsushika ward, Tokyo, Japan. It is the biggest park within the 23 special wards of Tokyo. It is known for its diverse plants and wild birds, and as an attraction spot during the Hanami season. Locals have said that it is home to a haunted phone booth.[1] |
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| 25．Kyū-Furukawa Gardens |
| Kyū-Furukawa Gardens (旧古河庭園, kyū-furukawa teien) is a Tokyo metropolitan park in Nishigahara, Kita, Tokyo. The park includes a Western-style mansion, a Western-style rose garden, and a Japanese-style garden, all of which were built in early 20th century. |
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| 26．Samuel Cocking Garden |
| The Samuel Cocking Garden (江の島サムエル・コッキング苑, Enoshima Samueru Kokkingu En), also known as the Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden, is a small botanical garden on the small island of Enoshima in Japan. The address is 2-3-28 Enoshima, Fujisawa, Kanagawa. The garden was established in 1880 by British merchant Samuel Cocking (1842–1914) as the Enoshima Botanical Garden, and featured a greenhouse (660 m2) in which he collected tropical plants. This original greenhouse was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. When in 1949 title passed to the city of Fujisawa, no trace of the greenhouse was found. However, in 2002, during reconstruction work, its brick foundation and original heating plant and boiler were discovered. In April 2003, a restored greenhouse was opened as part of the new garden, and as of 2004 had some 500,000 visitors per year. |
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| 27．Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden |
| The Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden (神奈川県立フラワーセンター 大船植物園, Kanagawa Kenritsu Furawāsentā Ōfuna Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden located at 1018 Okamoto, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. The garden was founded in 1961 as the Prefectural Flower Center Ofuna Botanical Garden on a former site of the Kanagawa National Agricultural Experiment Stations. It currently contains about 5,700 species with notable collections of Azalea, Camellia, Iris kaempferi, Paeonia suffruticosa, Paeonia lactiflora, and Selaginella tamariscina. |
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| 28．Ikuta Ryokuchi Park |
| Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (生田緑地, Ikuta Ryokuchi) is a park in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Among other features, it has an observation platform at the top of Mt. Masugata, the Japan Open-Air Folk Museum with authentic traditional houses, the Kawasaki Municipal Science Museum with a planetarium, the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, a traditional craft center, and a large rose garden open to the public in the spring and autumn. |
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| 29．Botanic Gardens of Toyama |
| The Botanic Gardens of Toyama (富山県中央植物園, Toyama-ken Chūō Shokubutsuen, 24.7 hectares) are botanical gardens located at 42 Kamikutsuwada, Fuchu-machi, Nei-gun, Toyama, Toyama, Japan. They are open daily except Thursdays; an admission fee is charged. Garden construction began in 1989. The gardens first opened to the public in 1993, with greenhouses following in 1996 and 2000. The gardens promote research as well as education, aiming to cultivate, preserve, investigate, and research plants. To this end the gardens publish a scholarly journal, the Bulletin of the Botanic Gardens of Toyama. |
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| 30．Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens |
| The Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens (二上山万葉植物園, Futagamiyama Man'yō Shokubutsuen) are botanical gardens located in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan. The garden site occupies about 10,000 m2, and contains both wildflowers and many plant varieties mentioned in the Man'yōshū anthology. 36°47′28.5″N 137°1′14.5″E / 36.791250°N 137.020694°E / 36.791250; 137.020694 |
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| 32．Aichiken Forest Park |
| Aichiken Forest Park (Japanese: 愛知県森林公園) is a forest park located in the area encompassing Owariasahi and Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Aichi. In its vast forest of about 468 hectares, it also includes a botanical garden and various sports facilities, such as tennis courts, baseball and archery fields, a horse riding course, a golf course, and sports plazas. |
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| 33．Shōnai Greens |
| The Shōnai Greens (庄内 緑地, Shōnai ryokuchi), also known as Shōnai Park, are located in Nishi-ku, Nagoya in central Japan. The Shōnai River passes by south of the park. Access by public transport is by Shōnai Ryokuchi Kōen Station on the Tsurumai Line. 35°12′33″N 136°52′56″E / 35.20917°N 136.88222°E / 35.20917; 136.88222 |
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| 34．Tsuruma Park |
| Tsuruma Park (鶴舞公園) is a park located in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya city, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. |
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| 35．Meijō Park |
| Meijō Park (名城公園, Meijō Kōen) is a public park surrounding Nagoya Castle in Kita-ku, Nagoya, Japan[3] |
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| 37．Sakuya Konohana Kan |
| The Sakuya Konohana Kan (咲くやこの花館) is a botanical garden set within one of the world's largest greenhouses, located in Tsurumi Ryokuchi park at 2-163 Ryokuchi Koen, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were constructed between 1987 and 1989, and currently contain about 15,000 plants representing 2,600 species from various climatic zones. Total floor space is about 6,900 m² with a maximum height of 30 meters. The conservatory is divided into a number of cool and hot houses as follows: |
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| 38．Nakanoshima Park |
| The Nakanoshima Park (中之島公園, Nakanoshima kōen) is the first public park opened by Osaka in 1891, after its foundation as a city. It is located in Kita ward, on the Nakanoshima sandbank, lying between Dōjima and Tosabori Rivers. The 11 hectare park houses public facilities such as Osaka Central Public Hall (built in 1918), Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library and Museum of Oriental Ceramics. It also holds a rose garden. The City Hall of Osaka building is located on its west end.[1] |
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| 39．Nunobiki Herb Garden |
| The Nunobiki Herb Garden (布引ハーブ園, Nunobiki Hābu-en, 40 acres) is a herb garden located on Mount Rokkō above Kobe, Japan. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The garden is accessed by Shin-Kobe Ropeway gondola lift from downtown Kobe. It features over 75,000 herbs (200 varieties), plus greenhouses, restaurant and cafe, museums, exhibits, and gift shops. |
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| 40．Rokkō Alpine Botanical Garden |
| The Rokkō Alpine Botanical Garden (六甲高山植物園, Rokkō Kōzan Shokubutsu-en) is a botanical garden located on Mount Rokkō, Kobe, Japan. It is open daily in the warmer months, except some Thursdays; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1933 at an altitude of 865 meters near the peak of Mount Rokkō. It currently contains about 1,500 kinds of alpine plants from Japan and the Himalayas, including dicentra, edelweiss, skunk cabbage, and native wild plants. |
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| 43．Omoro Botanical Garden |
| The Omoro Botanical Garden (おもろ植物園, Omoro Shokubutsuen, 4 hectares), also known as the Omoro Arboretum, is an arboretum and botanical garden located in the Ocean Expo Park, 424 Ishikawa, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan. It is open daily except Thursdays; admission is free. This facility was opened in 1980 to commemorate the Okinawa International Ocean Exposition. At a 2003 press conference, Emperor Akihito suggested the garden serve as a parallel to Japan's Manyo botanical gardens, which feature plants appearing in the Man'yōshū anthology (much like a Shakespeare garden in the English-speaking world). Accordingly, this garden collects plants that are described in the Omoro Sōshi (おもろそうし), a collection of Okinawan poems and songs. |
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| 44．Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum |
| The Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum (熱帯・亜熱帯都市緑化植物園, Nettai Anettai Toshi Ryokka Shokubutsuen) is a 9-hectare (22-acre) arboretum and botanical garden located in the southern tip of the Ocean Expo Park at Ishikawa 424, Motobu-cho, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan. It is open daily without charge. The arboretum was established in August 1976 on the site of the 1975 Okinawa Ocean Expo, and describes itself as the only tropical and subtropical arboretum in Japan with Okinawan climate. Its mission is education and the promotion of the urban afforestation, with sample gardens including nearly 37,500 plants representing 320 species of tropical and subtropical plants. Major arboretum features include an herb garden, hedge & vine area, ground cover area, street trees, and sections for salt and wind tolerant trees, palm trees, and bushes. |
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| 45．Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden |
| The Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden (宮古島市熱帯植物園, Miyakojima-shi Nettai Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden in Hirara, Miyako-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Landscaping began in 1967 on a site that before the war was a forest of Ryūkyū pines. The garden now contains about 1,600 species of plant and 40,000 trees in an area of 120,000 m².[1] |
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| 46．Yubu Island |
| Yubu Island (由布島, Yubu-jima) is an island of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, it is located about 0.5 miles east of Iriomote Island. The "Subtropical Botanical Garden" encompasses most of the island. Yubu Island is a small island with a total area of 0.15 km2 and a circumference of 2.0 km. It is located 0.5 km east of Iriomote Island. The water level between Yubu Island and Iriomote Island is usually no more than around knee deep, even during high tide the maximum depth is around 1 meter. Water buffalo carts are used as a means of transportation between Yubu Island and Iriomote Island, and have become an important tourist attraction for the island. When it is low tide and the waves are calm, it is possible to cross between islands on foot. Utility poles are built in the sea from Iriomote Island to Yubu Island in order to guide foot traffic. A botanical garden encompasses most of the island.[1] |
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