Tomitaro Makino, known as the "father of Japanese botany," once said ... The Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden at Mount Godaisan consists of an herbarium where plant specimens are ...

Tulips bloom in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward on April 8, 2025, at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens, the oldest garden of its kind in Japan, having opened to the public 101 years ago. Around 30,000 tulips ...

are larger than those typically found on Japan’s main island of Honshu. The garden's unexpected visitor is thought to be a buck, based on its antlers, and was first spotted in the botanical ...