Tokyo Medicinal Plant Garden

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It grows the opium poppy under supervision, for identifying drugs.

In a double-fenced area closed to the public, the garden grows the opium poppy (ケシ) for research and identification; growing it privately is prohibited by the opium law. It is one minute on foot from Higashiyamato Station, but it is not a flower garden in the usual sense: the flowers are chosen for their pharmacological use, not for the scenic effect.

A free public botanical garden, run by Tokyo Prefecture since 1946 and specialising in medicinal and herbal plants. Sources disagree on the number of species grown: Japanese Wikipedia says about 750, the city of Kodaira about 1,600; neither is the garden's official page, which gives no number.

ℹ️ April–September 9:00–16:30, October–March 9:00–16:00. Free entry. Closed on Mondays (the following day if Monday is a public holiday) and from 29 December to 3 January. In summer there are a lot of mosquitoes, according to several reviews.

🚉 Higashiyamatoshi · 6 min walk

Sources: tmiph.metro.tokyo.lg.jp

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