Jindai Botanical Garden Rose Festival 2020
Jindai Botanical Garden Rose Festival 2020 was beautiful. The festival was perfect if you needed a break from busy Tokyo. 5200 rose plants of 400 different types were there to recharge you. It was an excellent place for flower lovers. With so much color, they weren’t disappointed.
Event photo gear
Camera Body: Fujifilm X-T2
Lenses:
- Fujifilm XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR
- Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Jindai Botanical Garden Rose Festival 2020 experience
You could spend many hours photographing at this type of event. I took about four hundred pictures under the warm sun and beautiful skies. It was another great day in the autumn of 2020. We had a lot of rain that year, but the weather for that month was incredible.
With so many English and international roses to look at, time flew by in an instant. Jindai is no simple backyard rose garden. The staff put in many hours looking after it.
And it is a genuinely lovely place to walk around. The garden is a huge rectangle with a greenhouse at one end and a covered patio-type area at the other. In the middle are some fountains. The roses get the rest of the space! It is my image of what an English garden should look like.
Without a doubt, Jindai has the best rose garden in Tokyo. And it isn’t only about looking at the flowers. There are stalls too. They have a variety of different rose plants for sale. If you are lucky, you’ll find staff who speak English and can offer advice about caring for roses.
The number of photographers on the day surprised me. It shouldn’t have. I know only too well how much the Japanese like photography and garden roses! They seemed so serious about the event.
Jindai Botanical Garden rose festival is bigger than the one at Kyu-Furukawa Gardens. It is much better, but it has more staff and a bigger budget. The other is a garden attached to a house and is much smaller. But maybe that is just my preference. Judge by the photos. Leave comments and questions below.
Rohan Gillett
Rohan has lived in Tokyo for 30+ years. He loves photography and plans to capture the entire city.
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External related websites:
- Jindai Botanical Gardens (official website)