Food Koinoshizuku Restaurant Mandy Bartok Koinoshizuku restaurant in downtown Kumamoto serves up local specialties like horse meat and spicy lotus root at a great price
15 Culture Ming Style Beauty in Manpuku-ji Tomoko Kamishima There is a lotus pond in front of Sanmon Gate, and 60 kinds of lotus flowers
Food Maison de croissant Michelle Ishiki slightly each day, the lunch set consisted of miso soup with brown rice, and lotus... That was the first time I’d ever eaten lotus root balls. (Yum!)
Culture Shinobazu Pond In Ueno Park Michael Kaplan The first is known as the Lotus Pond, which is named for the lotus plants... lotus blossoms.
9 Painted Lotuses at Shoren-in Temple Takako Sakamoto Enjoy the beautiful lotus paintings on the sliding doors of Shoren-in , a Kyoto temple with high-class connections.
12 Accommodation Fukui's Hotel Somayama Larry Knipfing The hotel Somayama (in Fukui's Minami-Echizen district) is the place to stay if you are interested in the Hanahasu Lotus Park.
14 Shougenji Temple, Fukui Takako Sakamoto I especially liked the pretty Japanese garden with a lotus pond in front... Although lotus flowers were all dried up when I visited in early October