The history of Omiya’s Bonsai Village dates to 1925, when several groups of Bonsai planters moved here from downtown Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Until that time, it was the ...

Omiya (“grand shrine”) gets its name from the Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Shrine, said to have a history of more than 2,000 years and one of the greatest old shrines in Japan. The village of Omiya is ...

Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions. Fee Adults ¥310; University and High School Students, Seniors 65 & Over ¥150; Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥100.

During a trip to Japan years ago, I visited a village in Omiya, in Saitama prefecture outside Tokyo, where more than a dozen families grew and sold bonsai. “We get visitors from all over the world all ...

After a five-month closure for a rigorous garden renovation, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum formally reopened on March 21, unveiling a series of updates that aim to enhance both the exhibition experience ...

Photo taken on April 13, 2019 show the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama, Japan, on April 13, 2019. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi) TOKYO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- "Imagine yourself as a little bug standing under ...

Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

SAITAMA -- It's a rainy day in autumn, drops glistening on the bulky trunk and outstretched branches and leaves of a majestic tree -- a scene worthy of some grand landscape out of a story. But this ...