The is a

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is ...

located on

Mount Rokkō is the name of a range of mountains in southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Outline There is no single mountain or peak called "Rokkō," although the highest peak of the mountains is called , (literally, ''the highest peak of the Rokkō ...

Kobe Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

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It is open daily in the warmer months, except some Thursdays; an admission fee is charged.

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The garden was established in 1933 at an altitude of 865 meters near the peak of

. It currently contains about 1,500 kinds of

alpine plant Alpine plants are plants that grow in an alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. There are many different plant species and taxon, taxa that grow as a plant community in these alpine tundra. These include perennial g ...

s from

and the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ...

, including

dicentra ''Dicentra'' (Ancient Greek, Greek ''dís'' "twice", ''kéntron'' "spur"), known collectively as the bleeding-hearts, is a genus containing eight species of herbaceous plant, herbaceous Flowering plant, flowering perennial plants with unique, "he ...

edelweiss ''Leontopodium nivale'', commonly called edelweiss () ( ; or ), is a mountain flower belonging to the daisy or sunflower family Asteraceae. The plant prefers rocky limestone places at about altitude. It is a non-toxic plant. Its leaves and f ...

skunk cabbage Skunk cabbage is a common name for several plants and may refer to: * the genus '' Lysichiton'' ** Asian skunk cabbage, '' Lysichiton camtschatcensis'', grows in eastern Asia ** Western skunk cabbage, '' Lysichiton americanus'', grows in western N ...

, and native wild plants.

References

Kobe City Info

BGCI entry

Buildings and structures completed in 1933 Parks established in the 1930s Protected areas established in 1933 1933 establishments in Japan Botanical gardens in Japan Gardens in Hyōgo Prefecture Geography of Kobe Tourist attractions in Kobe {{Japan-garden-stub

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