【Osaka】 Natural Arts! Let’s go enjoy fresh green leaves in the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park.

Sit down on a bench and you will be able to hear sounds in the nature including whispers of birds, sounds of wind, singing of insects. Something that you don’t usually easily notice in cities.

Here, there are 3 screens of different colors set up. Look at the scenery through each screen and everything will look completely differently. For example, if you use the smoky grey screen, the scenery you are looking at is what spiders are seeing.

Two streams from the spring separates into north and south, meet again and flow into the pond together. This is a water flow from river to the ocean.

A pond as large as 11,000 ㎢. If you look down at the pond from strait above, it looks like a Japanese kanji character “心 (mind)”.

When early summer arrives, approximately 1,200 bulbs of lotus with 26 varieties of types as well as approximately 1,000 bulbs of water lily with 7 varieties of types start to bloom all over the pond. With blooming of the flowers, an event called “Early Morning Lotus Viewing” is held.

The beautiful black pine trees as if they were in a piece of art were planted where they can be observed from the central rest area in the Japanese garden. To keep them in good shape, they are taken care of every year by craftsmen using the traditional trimming techniques.