| The Tsukuba Botanical Garden (筑波実験植物園, Tsukuba Jikken Shokubutsuen, 14 hectares, 36 acres) is a major botanical garden near the University of Tsukuba at 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.[1] It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. As a research branch of the National Museum of Nature and Science, the garden is one of Japan's foremost botanical research facilities and provides public education. It currently contains about 5000 taxa of domestic and exotic plants from temperate and tropical regions around the world, with a particular emphasis on vascular plants of central Japan, East Asian ferns, Cycadaceae, Colocasia, and South American orchids.[2] |
