Nagai Botanical Garden
Twenty-four hectares of themed gardens and a lily pond, home to a whale skeleton and a nighttime digital light installation.
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This guide to Nagai Botanical Garden in Osaka starts with a whale skeleton hanging over the rosebushes at the entrance to the Osaka Museum of Natural History, the bones of an animal that washed ashore near the bay. It moves through the park's history, opened in 1944, and the garden proper that followed thirty years later, spanning roughly twenty-four hectares and about twelve hundred plant species around a central pond. It also covers what happens to the same paths after dark, when the digital art collective teamLab arrives.
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