Garden
Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Sprawling hillside botanic gardens with a Japanese garden, rainforest walk and planetarium.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Japanese Garden inside the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mount Coot-tha centres on a single stone water basin and the world's fair it came from, World Expo eighty-eight. You'll hear about designer Kenzo Ogata's final work, the fate of the pavilions built around it, and how Brisbane's Lord Mayor and Japan's Expo organisers arranged for this one garden to leave South Bank intact. Look for the worn stone bowl near the entrance, still catching water after everything else from that year disappeared.
This audio guide was created using AI.