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A wooded park in Kimitsu, where light entering an old river tunnel meets its reflection to form a heart on the water, best seen at dawn near the equinox.
Kimitsu · ChibaA wooded park in Kimitsu, where light entering an old river tunnel meets its reflection to form a heart on the water, best seen at dawn near the equinox.
Kimitsu · ChibaA memorial park near the Nagasaki hypocentre, built around the great bronze Peace Statue and peace monuments donated by nations around the world.
NagasakiA dark stand of old evergreens at the top of a steep stone stairway in Sosa, where one great tree spreads roots like boards across the forest floor.
Sosa · ChibaA hillside park in Sodegaura, Chiba, despite the name, where flower fields, a rose garden, small rides, animals and pick-your-own crops fill the slopes.
Sodegaura · ChibaA national government park on the Ibaraki coast where Miharashi Hill turns blue with nemophila in spring and red with kochia in autumn.
Hitachinaka · IbarakiThis renovated rose garden in Yokohama's Yamashita Park features nearly 1,900 plants selected for disease resistance and year-round interest.
Yokohama · KanagawaKeisei Rose Garden features more than 1,600 rose varieties across over 10,000 plants, including a restaurant, bakery, and garden center.
Yachiyo · ChibaThe site of Shinjo Castle, seat of the Tozawa lords for 243 years, with surviving moats and earthworks, three shrines and cherry trees.
Shinjo · YamagataBotanical park in Okinawa City with about 1,300 kinds of tropical plants, a lotus pond and two palm avenues registered as national monuments.
OkinawaPrefectural park in Nara around Todai-ji, Kofuku-ji and Kasuga Taisha, home to about 1,700 wild sika deer protected as a national Natural Monument.
NaraA daimyo stroll garden in Takamatsu at the foot of Mount Shiun, completed in 1745, with six ponds, 13 hills and about 1,400 pine trees.
Takamatsu · KagawaA daimyo stroll garden in Kanazawa Castle Park, first laid out by the Maeda lords in 1634, with a waterfall set into a patterned stone wall, rebuilt in 2015.
Kanazawa · IshikawaHistorical park in Saga on the Yoshinogari site, a large moated settlement of the Yayoi period, with buildings reconstructed on the excavated ground.
Yoshinogari · SagaA park in Sakai, Fukui, where about 150,000 lilies flower in June, with roses in May and October, a lily-shaped dome and a lawn park.
Sakai · FukuiBotanical garden on 25 hectares of hills in Echizen, with more than 3,000 plant species, a sphagnum moss bog and a research herbarium.
Echizen · FukuiMeiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo, dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set within a vast man-made forest of around 100,000 trees
TokyoA 1.5 km park running east to west through central Sapporo, the main site of the Sapporo Snow Festival, the Lilac Festival and the White Illumination.
Sapporo · Hokkaido