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Kyoto
A cherry-lined canal walk through Kyoto's eastern hills, linking Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji.
Japan's oldest public botanical garden, with a huge conservatory and seasonal flower displays by the Kamo River.
Sapporo
Sapporo's beloved central park, a leafy retreat next to Hokkaido Shrine famed for its spring cherry blossoms.
The vast, tree-filled park surrounding Kyoto's old Imperial Palace, free and open around the clock.
A seventeenth-century imperial villa whose strolling pond garden is considered a masterpiece of Japanese design.
A grand seventeenth-century imperial retreat in the eastern hills, famous for its sweeping borrowed-scenery garden.
A tranquil pond garden a few minutes from Kyoto Station, attached to the Higashi Hongan-ji temple.
Kyoto's beloved central river, with grassy banks, cherry trees and summer dining platforms.
A hilltop reserve above Arashiyama where wild Japanese macaques roam and the whole city spreads out below.
A two-hour traditional boat ride down a scenic gorge from Kameoka to Arashiyama, through rapids and forest.
Osaka
A 6.5-hectare lawn garden west of Osaka Castle keep, framed by around 300 cherry trees and the castle's stone walls and moat.
A forested valley within a quasi-national park, its 33-metre waterfall reached by an easy 2.8 km riverside trail famed for autumn color.
A vast green park on the former 1970 World Expo site, crowned by Taro Okamoto's Tower of the Sun and a superb strolling Japanese garden.
A refined Taisho-era strolling garden, once the Sumitomo family's private grounds, hidden inside Tennoji Park.
Osaka's oldest public park, a riverside sandbank of lawns and a 3,700-bush rose garden framed by grand early-20th-century buildings.
A 24-hectare municipal botanical garden of seasonal flower fields, ponds and woodland within the greenery of Nagai Park.
A large, hilly suburban park north of Osaka whose open-air museum preserves a dozen genuine thatched farmhouses from across Japan.
A huge park on the 1990 Garden Expo site, home to Japan's largest conservatory and a windmill-topped seasonal flower field.
A stylish central park with Osaka's oldest rose garden, a cherry-lined promenade and a fashionable cafe scene at its edges.
A four-kilometre riverside park along the Okawa lined with some 4,700 cherry trees, Osaka's premier hanami destination.
Hiroshima
A serene 400-year-old Edo-period stroll garden of miniature landscapes, a mere ten-minute walk from the atomic bomb hypocenter.
The 535-metre sacred peak of Miyajima, crowned with mystical rock formations, ancient flame and sweeping Seto Inland Sea panoramas.
One of Japan's most famous maple valleys, blazing scarlet each November at the foot of sacred Mount Misen on Miyajima.
A 16-kilometre ravine of waterfalls, emerald pools and towering cliffs in the mountains of northwest Hiroshima, famous for autumn colour.
