Kyoto Botanical Gardens
Public botanical garden of cherry groves, camphor avenues and a domed conservatory, rebuilt after being cleared for postwar housing.
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This guide to Kyoto Botanical Gardens traces how, in 1946, American occupation officers eyed the Imperial Palace grounds for military housing before officials redirected them here instead, to a public garden barely twenty years old. It follows what happened to the young collection the Mitsui family had endowed in 1924 once army families moved in, and the decade-plus wait before the land was returned in 1957. Walk the camphor avenue near the entrance while you listen.
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