If you love plants, you’re going to fall in love with this place. There are so many unique and interesting species here.
Kusatsu City Aquatic Botanical Garden Mizunomori | Review by 柯銘傑
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Isuien Garden
A nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty featuring a strolling pond garden. Despite its location on the north side of Nara Park, between Todai-ji Temple and Kofuku-ji Temple, Isuien Garden is a tranquil Japanese garden secluded from its surroundings. It consists of two sections: the Front Garden, created in the early Edo period, and the Back Garden, developed during the Meiji period. Together, they offer a glimpse into the aesthetics of two different eras.
I really liked the design of Isuien Garden. Each section of the path offers a different perspective, and as you walk, you see the pond, waterfall, tea house, and distant mountain scenery all connected together. It didn't feel crowded at all, so I could quietly enjoy how nature and the garden blend together.
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Deai Bridge
Deai Bridge is a 107-meter-long suspension bridge that leads to the Shirakawa-go gassho-zukuri village, a registered World Heritage site. The bridge connects the convenient public parking area, 'Village-Operated Sesaragi Park Parking Lot', to the village, and crossing the bridge brings you to the entrance of the village.
It feels like walking into a fairy tale. It’s a tiny village, and all the houses are so cute.
The steep, tall gassho-style roofs are really distinctive. Seeing it for the first time, I couldn’t stop taking photos. -
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Kyoto Railway museum
Since the opening of Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in 1972, it had been dubbed SL’s mecca. Then, it was remodeled into the Kyoto Railway Museum in 2016. Under their fundamental concept, “the hub of railway culture that progresses with its community,” you can learn railway history, safety and technology through amazing hands-on experience.
Visitors can ride a steam train here and really feel the charm of old-school railways.
