🗺️ Hiroshima City Botanical Garden

In an expansive area of 18.3 hectares, there is a botanical garden that gathers around 10,000 varieties and 200,000 plants from around the world. It is the largest in western Japan and features the symbolic "Great Greenhouse," where colorful Western orchids bloom year-round, exuding a strong tropical atmosphere. Additionally, there are several all-weather exhibition facilities, including the "Begonia Greenhouse," which showcases the world's most beautiful tuberous begonias, and the "Cactus Greenhouse," which houses about 330 species of plants suitable for dry soil, as well as the "Bellflower Greenhouse," which cultivates heat-sensitive bellflowers and rare wild orchids. Upon entering through the main gate, visitors are greeted by the "Great Flower Bed," adorned with beautiful seasonal flowers. The garden undergoes 4 to 5 rotations of planting each year, featuring poppies and begonias in spring, coleus and star flowers in summer, red amaranth and sage in autumn, and pansies and ornamental cabbages in winter. The hanging baskets and three-dimensional flower beds made from seasonal flowers are also quite eye-catching. The garden includes a restaurant and café, and visitors can also bring their own lunch or drinks to enjoy a leisurely day. Additionally, there is a shop on-site selling original products, and a flower shop offering a variety of flowers and plants to take home for enjoyment.

A botanical garden where you can admire about 10,000 varieties and 200,000 plants from around the world. The symbol of the botanical garden, the "Large Greenhouse," is the largest in Western Japan. Inside the garden, there are restaurants and cafes, and you can also bring your own lunch or drinks into the park. In the Large Greenhouse, there is a baobab tree (アフリカのバオバブ) with a trunk diameter of about 2 meters, the largest Australian baobab tree in Japan.