Tokyo Blue Garden
Heading to the Tokyo Blue Garden in Happo-en. This is one of the last illumination festivals in the city of Tokyo, ending on January 31.
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Parks & Gardens
Inui Street: Autumn Colors at the Imperial Palace
Inui Street is a street that’s only open to the public on certain days: During cherry blossom and the peak of autumn colours. If you find yourself in Tokyo during these magical times, a visit to this street is highly recommended.
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Senzoku-ike Park: Autumn colors
Returning to neighborhood parks that aren’t on everyone’s radar for Kōyō (colourful leaves), I made a quick trip to Senzoku-ike Park in the Ota Ward of Tokyo.
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Rikugien Autumn Nighttime Illumination
Autumn colors have finally reached the Tokyo area and with it the special nighttime illuminations at gardens such as Rikugien.
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Hitachi Seaside Park
I started my day trip to Ibaraki Prefecture with a visit to the Hitachi Seaside Park. Depending on the season,
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Komazawa Park
Komazawa Park is a park near Komazawa University in the Setagaya Ward of Tokyo. I recently moved near the park
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Marronnier Park in Seoul
Marronnier Park is a popular meeting point in the Daehangno neighborhood of Seoul. Daehangno is the theater district with over 100 mostly smaller theaters showing performances and plays of all kinds every day.
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Iris Flowers at the Meiji Shrine Inner Garden
On a lighter note, I managed to visit the inner garden of the Meiji Shrine yesterday. Most of the events
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Seoul Dream Forest in Winter
Seoul is not a green city, even when compared to Tokyo which actually offers many more parks (that often serve as evacuation areas too). Seoul Dream Forest is one of the big parks of Seoul and one of the locations of popular Korean drama Iris.
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Ohori Park in Fukuoka
Ohori Park is a western-style park in Fukuoka which contains a lake, a Japanese garden and an art museum. It’s very accessible by public transport and one of Fukuoka’s popular cherry blossom spots.
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Osaka Expo Park
Expo 1970 was held in Osaka. At that time, Japan’s economic growth skyrocketed. That was twenty years before the “bubble”
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