Japanese Garden Okayama Korakuen

Okayama Korakuen

Happy new year, everyone! I hope you had great winter holidays!!

A few days ago, I went to one of the three major Japanese gardens in Okayama Prefecture, called Okayama Korakuen. Korakuen shows different beautiful faces every season. I have not been there in summer and fall so I would love to visit there someday in those seasons.

I will show you some pictures I took in Korakuen. May be you have already noticed it from my previous posts but I LOVE taking pictures. It may be too much of pictures but I just cannot chose only a few.. I hope you do not mind seeing many pictures.

Korakuen in winter:
Japanese crane (In Japan, cranes are regarded as a bird of bringing happiness because they live long)

Carp (The colors are beautiful)

Okayama castle next to Korakuen (It is also called a castle of crow because it is black)

Korakuen in spring (night):
Night illumination (They light up the garden every season at night)

Projection mapping

Korakuen in spring (sakura!!!!!!)

Here are the comparison pictures of sceneries of winter and spring taken from almost the same spot.
Winter,

Spring, (personally, I LOVE the sakura and the blue sky on the water surface)

*As you might tell, I am such a "sakura-holic" person! :) The pinkish white flowers have really amazing power of healing people's heart, I believe.

I hope you could feel and enjoy a bit of Japanese atmosphere! Thank you for reading.