1 Beppu/ Oita Research Station
2 Chiba / Kemigawa Arboretum
3 Chiba-ken/ Keisei Rose Nurseries Inc.
4 Enoshima/ Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden
5 Fukuoka/ Fukuoka Municipal Botanical Garden
6 Gifu / Herbal Garden of Gifu Pharmaceutical University
7 Hachioji/ Asakawa Experimental Forest
8 Hakone/ Hakone Botanical garden of Wetlands
9 Hamamatsu/ Hamamatsu City Flower Park
10 Hidakagun/ Wakayama Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants
11 Hiroshima / The Hiroshima Botanical Garden
12 Hyogo / Hyogo Prefectural Awaji Farm Park
13 Hyogo / Hyogo Prefecture Flower Center
14 Ibaraki/ Tsukuba Botanical Garden
15 Kagoshima/ Kagoshima Botanical Garden
16 Kamo-gun/ Jungle Park
17 Kanagawa/ Botanical Garden
18 Kanagawa/ Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden
19 Kanazawa/ Botanic Garden of the Faculty of Science
20 Kawaguchi City/ Botanical Garden of Kawaguchi-City
21 Kobe / Kobe Municipal Arboretum
22 Kobe / The Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden
23 Kochi / Makino Kochi Prefectural Botanical Garden
24 Koshigaya/ The Aritaki Arboretum
25 Kumage-gun/ Tanegashima Medicinal Plant Research Station
26 Kyoto/ Kyoto Takeda Herbal Garden
27 Kyoto / The Kyoto Botanical Garden
28 Kyoto / The Nippon Shinyaku Institute for Botanical Research
29 Masaki/ Kubota Palm Garden
30 Minamiizu/ Izu Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants
31 Miyajima / The Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden
32 Nagoya/ Higashiyama Botanical Garden
33 Naramoto/ Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden
34 Nayoro/ Hokkaido Experimental Station of Medicinal Plants
35 Nigawa/ Awaji Farm Park
36 Nikko / Nikko Botanical Gardens
37 Oita / Kanko
38 Oita City/ Kanko
39 Okayama / Handayama Botanical Garden
40 Okinawa /South East Botanical Gardens
41 Osaka /Botanical Garden of Osaka City University
42 Osaka / Kosobe Conservatory
43 Osaka /Medicinal Plant Garden
44 Sapporo /The Botanic Garden
45 Sendai /Botanical Garden
46 Shizuoka-ken / Fuji Bamboo Garden
47 Tokyo /Botanical Laboratories
48 Tokyo / National Garden Shinjuku Gyoen
49 Tokyo/ Tokyo Metropolitan Jindai Botanical Garden
50 Tokyo/ Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Plants Garden
51 Tokyo/ University of Tokyo Botanical Gardens
52 Tokyo/ Yumenoshima Tropical Plant Dome
53 Tsukuba/ Medicinal Plants Research Station
54 Yokohama/ Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden

#46 If you are intersting Bamboos # 46 is good place to visit. also kyoto has 3 bamboo gardens. Dr kashiwagi is reserching over there. It may take 3~ 4 hours from Tokyo
some place is purly for academic, some place are for entertainment. If you are going to visit your self you have much more choice , If you are takeing your wife and kids, then < you know how it goes> when you visit # 7 you have to waer sneker and have towel and bottled water. And carefull with poisin snake. No English sign warning you . no visitors bit by snake yet. ^-^ .

#23 Makino memorial Botanical garened is nice place to vist. I have not visited yet. Dr Makino is father of Japanese society of Botany. many plants are named after him. .........mike

Thanks for your descriptions.

I thought you might could (as we say in the Amer. South) help me with another question.

I'm trying to find places where I can see old growth Sciadopitys verticillata (Japanese Umbrella Pine) (and called Koyamaki in Japanese, I believe) in a natural environment -- in other words, in a forest.
Does any of the national parks or other preserves in Japan have forest with it in the wild?

Here's a link someone showed me with its range:

http://www.pinetum.org/RMsci_ve.htm

I have the same question with respect to Cryptomeria (sugi). I would love to go to Yakushima, but it may be too far for this trip.
Do you know of the national parks or other preserves in Japan (other than Yakushima) where I can see old growth Cryptomeria forest?

Many thanks,

Arauquoia