Description of the attraction
Tsukuba is a real Japanese science city. In 1962, the government commission for regional development chose a small town in Ibaraki prefecture and recommended that a science center be located there. Investments in construction amounted to $ 1.3 billion. Today the entire city, which is home to about 150 thousand people, is a scientific center of world importance.
Tsukuba is located on the island of Honshu, 35 miles northeast of Tokyo. It houses 47 private, public universities and research institutes of a physical, engineering and biological profile, including the University of Tsukuba, the space center, the National Science Museum and the Botanical Garden.
The Tsukuba Botanical Garden is not so much a tourist site, but more a serious scientific institution. In its classrooms, equipped with the most modern technology, lessons for schoolchildren, lectures for students, as well as classes for retirees who are interested in botany are held. The great interest in the flora is easily explained by Japanese traditions. One of the most widespread religions in Japan, Shintoism, was formed from the ancient cult of the spiritualization of nature and the deification of deceased ancestors. That is why the entire population of the Land of the Rising Sun admires the blooming sakura, cares for the plants and decorates their living space with them.
In the Tsukuba Botanical Garden, there is a protected forest zone where a person's foot only steps on paved paths. In the collection of aquatic plants, each species has a separate reservoir lined with stone. In greenhouses with tropical plants, the necessary microclimate is maintained with the help of a well-thought-out humidification system. The garden contains flowers, trees and shrubs from all over the world, including unique ones. For example, microscopic wolfia from the duckweed family. The flowers of this aquatic plant are recognized as the smallest in the world - only 0.3-0.5 mm, and it blooms extremely rarely, scientists consider it a miracle of nature.
