Recorded Joy·Rakuhoku / Kitaōji

Kyoto Botanical Garden

The Kyoto Botanical Garden opened on New Year's Day, 1924, as the Taiten Kinen Kyoto Botanical Garden, the first public botanical garden in Japan. After the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Allied forces from 1946, and after a hard interval in which many trees were lost, it reopened, remade, in 1961. The northern half of the grounds holds Nakaragi-no-mori, the garden's only natural woodland, still carrying something of the original vegetation of the Yamashiro basin. At its center stands Nakaragi-jinja, an outlying shrine of Kamigamo Shrine, quietly kept among the trees.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.