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Chumono
Our Japan trip started in Tokyo and so we went looking for a non-Omiya Bonsai garden to tour on a Thursday. Shunkaen Bonsai Museum is the garden of Kunio Kobayashi in the Edokawa-ku prefecture on the East Side of Tokyo. From Shinjuku we took two trains and a bus to get there. A fairly easy trip. There is no need to make a reservation ahead of time, just walk up, pay 1000¥ per person during the hours they're open and wait for an apprentice to start a tour. A tech savvy older gentleman armed with Google translate was telling us which trees are worth 1,000,000¥
Entrance to the garden
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This massive black pine greets you at the front gate
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The young apprentice tells us about the bark of this Japanese black pine that is set in the middle of the garden.
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The specialty of this museum are the displays. They switch these trees out of the formal displays every two days. I didn't take a photo of all of them but each one was amazing.
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The bullet train is going though a lot of tunnels so it's hard to upload more photos right now. I'll make another post when we get to our next hotel.
Entrance to the garden
![20231109_114146.jpg 20231109_114146.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506981-eb5a5bfc8449a17d815fcca27b5882bf.jpg?hash=61pb_IRJoX)
This massive black pine greets you at the front gate
![20231109_114122.jpg 20231109_114122.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506982-e07224ddba6640f95e5ea5493fe9b269.jpg?hash=4HIk3bpmQP)
The young apprentice tells us about the bark of this Japanese black pine that is set in the middle of the garden.
![20231109_114759.jpg 20231109_114759.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506983-90f19746760f58cf3786af7a828ee652.jpg?hash=kPGXRnYPWM)
![20231109_115224.jpg 20231109_115224.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506987-8772654677b890558cde4e8f766762b6.jpg?hash=h3JlRne4kF)
The specialty of this museum are the displays. They switch these trees out of the formal displays every two days. I didn't take a photo of all of them but each one was amazing.
![20231109_115645.jpg 20231109_115645.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506988-84377386e3b0dbc8e9e16ab04bbee36f.jpg?hash=hDdzhuOw28)
![20231109_115810.jpg 20231109_115810.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/506/506989-57ea4b131d0a037651c15a5d313eb1dc.jpg?hash=V-pLEx0KA3)
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The bullet train is going though a lot of tunnels so it's hard to upload more photos right now. I'll make another post when we get to our next hotel.