Located in the town of Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture, Kairakuen is considered to be one of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens, due in no small part to the roughly 3,000 ume trees that grow within the ...

YASUGI, Shimane Prefecture--Japan’s most splendid garden, at the Adachi Museum of Art here, held onto its ranking for the 19th straight year in 2021 in a survey by the U.S.-based Journal of ...

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Other gardens in the Sanin region that ranked among the top 50 in Japan were Minamikan ryokan in Matsue (4th); the Yushien garden also in the Shimane prefectural capital (21st); Kokokuji temple in ...

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The garden is also home to a 9,000-pound Lantern of Peace, a gift given to the United States by Japan after World War II and meant to symbolize friendship between the two countries. The newly ...