{"id":292,"date":"2012-11-01T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-11-08T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:49:51","slug":"nikko-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/nikko-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikko Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nikko Botanical Garden<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nikko Botanical Garden<\/strong> (\u65e5\u5149\u690d\u7269\u5712, Nikk<\/em>\u014d<\/em> Shokubutsuen<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/sup>, 26 acres, 10.5 hectares, 104,490 m\u00b2) is a botanical garden<\/span><\/a> operated by the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo<\/span><\/a>, and located at 1842 Hanaishi, Nikk\u014d, Tochigi<\/span><\/a>, Japan, on rolling terrain with streams and ponds at 647 meters above sea level. It is open daily except Mondays during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.<\/span><\/p>\n

The garden was established in 1902 as a branch of the Koishikawa Botanical Garden<\/span><\/a>, Tokyo, to specialize in the study of alpine plants<\/span><\/a>. It was first located near Toshogu Shrine<\/span><\/a>, but in 1911 moved to its current site, and in 1950 enlarged to include part of the Tamozawa Goyotei garden, a summer house of Japan’s royal family.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today the garden contains about 2,200 species<\/span><\/a> (130 species of pteridophytes<\/span><\/a>, 70 species of gymnosperms<\/span><\/a>, and 2,000 species of angiosperms<\/span><\/a>), with good collections of temperate trees and shrubs, including 22 of the 24 indigenous Japanese Acer<\/span><\/a> species, more than 10 species of Japanese Prunus<\/span><\/a>, and 80 rhododendron<\/span><\/a> species. Many herbaceous species are grown beneath the trees, as well as more specialized collections in rockeries, bog<\/span><\/a> gardens, and a fern<\/span><\/a> garden (about 60 species). The rockeries contain about 100 species of Japanese alpine plants, together with plants from the Himalayas<\/span><\/a> and Korea<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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