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Akatsuka Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden located at 5-17-14 Akatsuka, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. It is open daily. The garden is located in Akatsuka's hills and contains over 600 varieties of trees and plants. The Manyo Yakuyo Garden is a Manyo Botanical Garden c ...

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Itabashi, Tokyo is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. In English, it calls itself Itabashi City. Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario, in Canada; Shijingshan District of Beijing in the People's Republic of China; and B ...

) * Aloha Garden Tateyama (

Tateyama, Chiba is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 44,865 in 20,558 households and a population density of 410 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Tateyama is located at the far so ...

) * Amami Islands Botanical Garden (

Amami, Kagoshima is a city located on the island of Amami Ōshima, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Amami is the most populated municipality on Amami Ōshima. The most urban part of the municipality as well as the island's main port is a small city also k ...

) * Aoshima Subtropical Botanical Garden (

Miyazaki, Miyazaki is the capital city of Miyazaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924. As of July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 399,788 and a population density of 621 persons per km2. The total area ...

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Aritaki Arboretum The is a private arboretum located at 2566 Koshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on ...

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Koshigaya, Saitama is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 345,353 in 158,022 households and a population density of 5700 persons per km². The total area of the city is . It is famous for producing daruma doll ...

) * Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden ( Kamo, Shizuoka) *

Botanic Garden, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University The is a botanical garden operated by Kanazawa University. It is located at the university's Kakuma Campus in Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East As ...

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Kanazawa, Ishikawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 466,029 in 203,271 households, and a population density of 990 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Overview Cityscape File:もてな� ...

) * Botanical Garden of Tohoku University (

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Botanic Gardens of Toyama The 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 ...

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Toyama, Toyama is the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, about north of the city of Nagoya and northwest of Tokyo. , the city had an estimated population of 415,844 in 17 ...

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Botanical Gardens Faculty of Science Osaka City University The are botanical gardens operated by Osaka City University. They are near the Keihan-Kisaichi Station, Katano, Osaka, Japan and open to the public. The gardens were established in 1950 and contain about 4500 species from around the world, in ...

( Katano, Osaka) * Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden (

Fujisawa, Kanagawa is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 439,728 and a population density of 6300 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Fujisawa is in the central part of Kanagawa ...

) * Experimental Station for Landscape Plants ( Chiba, Chiba) * Fuji Bamboo Garden (

Nagaizumi, Shizuoka 270px, Nagaizumi Town Hall is a town located in Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 43,568 in 18154 households and a population density of 1,600 persons per km². The total area of the town w ...

) * Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden (

Fukuoka, Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since an ...

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Futagami Manyo Botanical Gardens The 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 The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese ( ...

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Takaoka, Toyama is a city in the northwestern portion of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Takaoka has the second largest population after Toyama City. The area that is east of Kureha hill (呉羽丘陵 Kureha-kyuryo) has been called Goto (呉東), which means the east ...

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Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands The is a botanical garden located within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park at 817 Sengokuhara, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was founded in 1976, and now contains some 17 ...

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Hakone, Kanagawa is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had a population of 11,293 and a population density of 122 persons per km². The total area of the town is . The town is a popular tourist destination due to its many hot springs and views of ...

) * Handayama Botanical Garden (

Okayama, Okayama is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. , the city has an estimated population of 720,841 and a population density of 910 persons per km2. The total area is . The city is ...

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Hattori Ryokuchi Arboretum The is an arboretum located within Hattori Ryokuchi Park at 1-13 Terauchi, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. It is open daily. The arboretum contains bamboo gardens and some 2,500 cherry tree A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus ...

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Toyonaka, Osaka is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on October 15, 1936. Geography Climate Toyonaka has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The aver ...

) * Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens (

Nagoya, Aichi is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most popu ...

) * Himeji City Tegarayama Botanical Garden (

Himeji, Hyōgo file:Himeji City Hall 20180505.jpg, 260px, Himeji City Hall is a Cities of Japan, city located in Hyōgo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 525,682 in 227,099 households and a population density of ...

) * Himi Seaside Botanical Garden ( Himi, Toyama) *

Hiroshima Botanical Garden The is located in Saeki-ku, Hiroshima in western Honshū, on the hill facing the Seto Inland Sea. The Garden was opened to the public on 3 November 1976. Since its inception, the Garden has been adding to its collection of exotic as well as in ...

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Hiroshima, Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...

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Hirugano Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden located in the skiing region near Mount Dainichi in the Takasu area of the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It i ...

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Gujō, Gifu Gujō City Hall is a city located in Gifu, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 41,858, and a population density of 41 persons per km2, in 15,341 households. The total area of the city was . Gujo Hachiman, a part of the city that w ...

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Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens The are botanical gardens operated by Hokkaido University. They are located at North 3, West 8, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan, and open daily; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were established in 1886 as part of the Old Sapporo A ...

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Sapporo, Hokkaidō ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ...

) * Ibaraki Botanical Garden (

Naka, Ibaraki is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 53,153 in 20,953 households and a population density of 543.4 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 32.4%. The total area of ...

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Ibusuki Experimental Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden operated by the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University. It is located at 1291 Ju-cho, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, Japan. The garden contains useful plants of tropical and subtropical origin for student education and gene ...

( Ibusuki, Kagoshima) * Ishikawa Forest Experiment Station (

Hakusan, Ishikawa is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 113,375 in 43246 households, and a population density of 290 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . It is the second-most populous city in Ish ...

) * Itabashi Botanical Garden (

) * Jindai Botanical Garden ( Chōfu, Tokyo) * Kagoshima Botanical Garden (

Kagoshima, Kagoshima , abbreviated to , is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of ...

) * Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden (

Kamakura, Kanagawa is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kamakura has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 persons per km² over the total area of . Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939. Kama ...

) * Kawaguchi Green Center (

Kawaguchi, Saitama is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 607,373 in 293,582 households and a population density of 9800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . It is the Greater Tokyo Area's 8th most ...

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Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse The , also known as the Miracle Planet Museum of Plants, is a botanical garden within a greenhouse located at Yumebutai 4 Banchi, Higashiura-cho, Tsuna, Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan. It is open most days; an admission fee is charged. The greenhouse ope ...

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Awaji, Hyōgo 270px, Awaji City Hall is a city located on Awaji Island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 42,597 and a population density of 230 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography The city of Awaj ...

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Kitayama Botanical Garden The , sometimes called the Nigawa Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden located at 6-14-15 Nigawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. The garden is next to Kabutoyama Forest Park at Mount Kabutoyama, and contains a greenhouse, flower collections, a ...

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Nishinomiya, Hyōgo 270px, Nishinomiya City Hall 270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center 270px, Hirota Shrine is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218948 households and a population density of 4 ...

) * Kobe Municipal Arboretum ( Kōbe, Hyōgo) * Koishikawa Botanical Gardens ( Bunkyō, Tokyo) *

Kosobe Conservatory The was a botanical garden that forms part of the , Kyoto University (京都大学大学院農学研究科附属農場), located at 2-30 Kosobe, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan. The conservatory was established in January 1929 to educate undergraduate a ...

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Takatsuki, Osaka is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is located in northern Osaka's Hokusetsu region. As of 2020, the city had an estimated population of 347,944 and a population density of 3,300 persons per km². The total area is 105.31 km². The ...

) * Kubota Palm Garden (

Masaki, Ehime 270px, Hyokotan Park is a town located in Iyo District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 30,411 in 13768 households and a population density of 1500 persons per km².The total area of the town is . It is the sm ...

) * Kyoto Botanical Garden (

Kyoto, Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

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Makino Botanical Garden The , also known as the Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden located at Godaisan 4200-6, Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is open to the public daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. The garden was esta ...

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Kōchi, Kōchi is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture located on the island of Shikoku in Japan. With over 40% of the prefectural population, Kōchi is the main commercial and industrial centre and the " primate city" of the prefecture. , the city had an ...

) * Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara (

Nara, Nara is the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of 2022, Nara has an estimated population of 367,353 according to World Population Review, making it the largest city in Nara Prefecture and sixth-largest in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara ...

) * Michinoku Mano-Manyo Botanical Garden (

Kashima, Fukushima was a town located in Sōma District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,341 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volum ...

) * Mito Municipal Botanical Park (

Mito, Ibaraki is the capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 269,330 in 123,282 households and a population density of 1239 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged ...

) * Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden (

Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The name derives from a market traditionally held on the 20th of each month with ''hatsuka'' (廿日) meaning "20th day" and ''ichi'' (市) translating to "market". The market continues to this da ...

) * Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden (

Miyakojima, Okinawa is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, located on the Miyako Islands. As of 2012, it had a population of 54,908. The current mayor is Kazuyuki Zakimi, who took office on January 25, 2021. History The modern city of Miyakojima was establish ...

) * Mizunomori Water Botanical Garden (

Kusatsu, Shiga 260px, Kusatsu City Hall is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 137,266 in 61426 households and a population density of 2000 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The city is often co ...

) * Nagai Botanical Garden (

Osaka, Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2 ...

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Nagasaki Subtropical Botanical Garden Nagasaki subtropical botanical garden (長崎亜熱帯植物園 Nagasaki prefecture subtropical botanical garden Anettai Shokubutsuen) It is a botanical garden that was in Wakimisakimachi 833, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan. Nagisaki Town, a subtropical ...

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Nagasaki, Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...

) * Niigata Prefectural Botanical Garden (

Niigata, Niigata is a city located in the northern part of Niigata Prefecture (). It is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is ...

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Nikko Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden operated by the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, and located at 1842 Hanaishi, Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, on rolling terrain with streams and ponds at 647 meters above sea level. It is open daily except Mond ...

( Nikkō, Tochigi) * Nunobiki Herb Garden ( Kōbe, Hyōgo) * Omoro Botanical Garden (

Motobu, Okinawa is a town located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2016, the town has an estimated population of 13,441 and a density of 250 persons per km2. The total area is . Several islands can be accessed from Motobu, namely ...

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Rokkō Alpine Botanical Garden The 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 ...

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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 admis ...

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Samuel Cocking Garden The , 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 Co ...

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Enoshima is a small offshore island, about in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River which flows into the Sagami Bay of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Administratively, Enoshima is part of the mainland city of Fujisawa, and is linked to ...

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Sasebo Zoological Park and Botanical Garden The is a zoo and botanical garden located at 2172, Funakoshi-cho, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The zoo opened in 1961, and now contains about 330 animals and 21,000 plants. Its rainforest greenhouse ...

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Sasebo, Nagasaki is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 247,739 and a population density of 581 persons p ...

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Seinan Gakuin University Biblical Botanical Garden The is a Biblical garden, one of a number botanical gardens located across the campus of Seinan Gakuin University, Nishijin 6-2-92, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan. It is open daily. The garden that contains about 80 plants mentioned in the B ...

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) * Shimokamo Tropical Botanical Gardens ( Kamo, Shizuoka) * Shimizu_Park (

Noda, Chiba is a city located in the northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 154,114 in 69,191 households and a population density of 1500 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . The city is famous ...

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Southeast Botanical Gardens The is a commercial botanical garden located in the city of Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The garden is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The gardens covers and contain over 2,000 plant species, including some 450 species of palm ...

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Okinawa, Okinawa is the second-largest city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, following Naha, the capital city. It is located in the central part of the island of Okinawa, about north of Naha. As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population of 138,431 an ...

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Suigō Sawara Aquatic Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden located at the eastern side of the Suigo-Tsukuba Quasi-National Park in Katori, Chiba, Japan. It is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (8 a.m.-7 p.m. during the Iris Festival) every day in May and June. July through April it is clos ...

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Katori, Chiba is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 74,469 in 31,113 households and a population density of 280 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Katori Shrine is in the city of Katori, as ...

) * Suma Rikyu Park ( Kōbe, Hyōgo) * Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens ( Kami, Hyōgo) * Tama Forest Science Garden ( Hachiōji, Tokyo) * Tennōji Botanical Garden (

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Tokyo University of Agriculture Botanical Garden The is a botanical garden operated by the Tokyo University of Agriculture, and located at 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan. The garden was established in 1967, and now cultivates about 1,500 species of useful plants, including collections ...

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Atsugi, Kanagawa is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 223,960 and a population density of 2400 persons per km². The total area of the city is . While the name "Atsugi" is often associated with the Un ...

) * Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum (

Kunigami, Okinawa is a village in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It occupies the north tip of Okinawa Island, with the East China Sea to the west, Pacific Ocean to the east, and villages of Higashi and Ōgimi to the south. As of 2015, the villa ...

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Tsukuba Botanical Garden The is a major botanical garden near the University of Tsukuba at 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. As a research branch of the National Museum of Nature and Science, ...

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Tsukuba, Ibaraki is a Cities of Japan, city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 244,528 in 108,669 households and a population density of 862 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 20 ...

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Wakayama Prefecture Botanical Park The is a park with botanical garden located at Higashi Sakamoto 672, Iwade, Wakayama, Japan. It is open daily except Tuesdays; an admission fee is charged. The park contains a large tropical greenhouse ( fruit trees, bougainvillea, strelitzia ...

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Iwade, Wakayama 270px, Iwade city hall is a city located in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 54,138 in 23906 households and a population density of 1400 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Iwade is ...

) * Yamashina Botanical Research Institute (

) * Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden (

Yokohama, Kanagawa is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of ...

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Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome The , also sometimes called the Yumenoshima Tropical Plant Dome, is a botanical garden located at 3-2, Yumenoshima, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association and open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is ...

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