Monday, August 29, 2011

Iris at Shikinosato park

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The shikinosato park is one of the largest parks in moriya city, Ibaraki prefecture. Moriya city developed a large industrial park at the beginning of the 90s, designating some areas as green zones as part of the project, the shikinosato with 20,660m² is one of the largest parks created on the designated green zone.

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The park was built to use the terrain original features as much as possible. Centered around a pond, over 50,000 plants of 200 species flower each season, hence the name of the park “village of the four seasons”.
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At the time of my visit, the iris were blooming beautifully around the pond.

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A watermill, a stream and a boat in the area next to the playground; A great place to sit and relax.

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