Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park

This guide to Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park in Osaka starts with what lies beneath the tulip beds and the turning Dutch windmill: a decades-old landfill from the city's postwar boom. It follows Osaka Prefecture's decision in the early 1970s to bury the site properly and wait, and the international garden expo that eventually opened on top of it in 1990, drawing eighty-three countries to build gardens here. The Japanese garden's teahouse and pond sit just past the windmill's fields.