
Posted on 2014/11/17
Hamamatsu Garden Park – the breathtaking lake view tower (Part 2)
Part 1: The Vienna of Japan, city of music, Hamamatsu. Unlike other garden parks I’ve seen in Tokyo or Yokohama area, Hamamatsu Garden Park (浜松ガーデンパーク) takes you on a journey through the different gardening styles of various countries (Nepal, China, Korea, Thailand and UK). It also includes a flower museum where you can learn about the foreign botanists who ventured into Japan during the Edo period. Short stories of how Japanese flowers and gardens sparked those foreign botanists’ interests, causing them to export the plants and cultivate them in other countries, especially in the UK. In the photo below is a statuette of Robert Fortune who visited Japan in the… Read More