Japan's Botanical Gardens & Plant Collections

About this book

Two hundred gardens, one way of reading them. Japan collects plants the way other countries collect paintings: in university research gardens and castle moats, in glasshouses heated by hot springs, in lavender farms and tulip fairs, in marshes where the gardener is the snow itself. This complete guide describes 200 botanical gardens, greenhouses and living collections in one clear, uniform style — each garden's story, its collections and signature plants, its seasons of bloom, and the official sources for current visiting facts. Travel region by region from Hokkaido's alpine meadows to the mangrove rivers of Iriomote, dive into the specialists of Part 7 — bonsai villages, wetland gardens, medicinal collections — and close with Part 8's living collections, where farms and festivals turn whole hillsides into flowers. Choose a month, and Japan will tell you where it is blooming.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.