The is a

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is ...

located at 5-17-14 Akatsuka,

Itabashi, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. In English, it is called Itabashi City. Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario, in Canada; Shijingshan District of Beijing in the People's ...

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. It is open daily. Akatsuka castle

The garden is located in Akatsuka's hills and contains over 600 varieties of trees and plants. The Manyo Yakuyo Garden is a

Manyo Botanical Garden Manyo may refer to: ;People *Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (born 1949), Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church *Manyo Plange (born 1988), Ghanaian boxer who won silver at the 2007 All-Africa Games ;Africa *Manyo County, county in the Western Nile, So ...

containing

medicinal herb Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against h ...

s mentioned in the

Man'yōshū The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...

anthology.

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Itabashi City entry (Japanese)

Japan Navigator article

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