Try SAN-IN area. Visit the extraordinary ADACHI MUSEUM where art meets garden and stay for two hours, and then to YOU-SHI-EN garden where you eat lunch with the garden view followed by a stroll in the garden. The peony house in the garden offers you tree peonies in bloom all the time. To finish up, proceed to KITARO ROAD where YOKAI bronze statues line the street. Check the manga artist MIZUKI Shigeru who created these YOKAI based on his research and imagination and you will appreciate these creatures more. They are profound!
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| Pay attention to magnificent stones in the Japanese garden; two examples here are dark-colored Saji-ishi on the right and blue-colored Ao-ishi on the left @ ADACHI MUSEUM OF ART |
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| In the peony house at YUSHI-EN garden Japanese tree peonies can be viewed all the year round. The gardening artist ISHIHARA dubbed as the moss magician created the design in the photo. |
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| The creator of the YOKAI creatures lining the MIZUKI SHIGERU ROAD is in the middle, drawing MANGA. MIZUKI's signature characters watch him attentively. |
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| The main character KITARO has an unusual father: an eyeball. He was dead once but resurrected possessing the dead man's eyeball because he was worried about his baby KITARO who was born in the mother's coffin and crawled out of it alone. Here, he is sold as a sweet round cake. |
