Garden | SHIZUOKA TOURISM

We spent no less than 4 hours inside the enormous Flower Garden in Hamamatsu city and took more than 180 picture!
I am not going to complete as this allows me to write a series of articles on different themes!
This fourth one is titled Animal Garden Designs!

The flowery entrance!

Flower bed palette!

Combining moss and flowers!

A face all made of succulents!

A rare pine tree variety very popular with spiders as witnessed by their nests!

A forest represented with moss as the background of an arched bridge!

There was also a whole series of miniature landscape gardens with famous buildings and castles from all over Japan!
If I remember well this house can be found in Kobe City!

Tokyo Station!

Osaka Castle!

I think this house can be seen in Hakodate!

Hamana Lake Flower Garden
Hamanako Flower garden
浜名湖フラワーガーデン
10th anniversary of the 2004 Pacific Flora Garden Exposition and the 21st Japan Urban Greenery Shizuoka Festival

Open until June 15th

Hamamatsu City, Nishi Ku, Murakoshi Cho, 5348-3
Tel.: 53-488-1811
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Yesterday, having finally recovered from my annual spring cold (the second one, actually!) I found it was about time to shake the torpor out of my legs and take a long ride/walk into some places I do not usually visit in town!

I’ve known about a private garden since I arrived 38 years ago in Shizuoka City located in Aoi Ku, Kamiashiarai 5 Chome opposite Midori Cho, 10 Chome but funnily enough never bothered to really investigate.

As I said it is a private water garden and I may not really make the names of their owners public, but many people call it “hasu ike/蓮池”, that is “waterlily pond”!

By Japanese and Shizuoka standards it is an enormous pond. Completely surrounded by nets, one cannot naturally enter it although it is easy to admire and take pictures of.
Apparently it belonged to a very old family, probably of noble origins judging by the small stone wall keeping the large houses away from the water!