There are 500 cherry trees and 70 different species at Kyoto Botanical Gardens, making it a great choice for enjoying O-hanami in Kyoto. The cherry blossom is wonderful, but there are other spring delights like magnificent tulip beds, daffodils and bluebells under mature trees, and a rhododendron exhibition. Entrance is ¥200 and in spring there is a light up till 9pm.
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Spring at Kyoto Botanical Gardens
Don't miss the tulip beds!

By Cathy Cawood
Community writer

Large weeping cherry blossom tree

Colorful beds of tulips

Listening to "water music" through a bamboo pipe

People picnicking under cherry trees

There was also a rhododendron exhibition

Kyoto Botanical Gardens has a pretty fountain

Path beside azalea bushes just starting to bloom

A green and leafy nest for two picnickers

An artist was sketching the trees

Pink tulips and grape hyacinth

A water wheel powers a small but functioning mill

Seats invite strollers to take a rest

Double cherry blossom
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Muhammad Asyraf Ramadhan
10 years ago
Signs of spring in Kyoto! I don't know if they were also grew Tulips in Kyoto.. lol
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