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Open

9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Last entry 4:00 p.m.)

ClosedEvery Monday (If Monday is a national holiday,thegarden is open Monday and closed the followingTuesday) and Year-end/ New Year Holiday( December 28 to January 4).

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Admission Fees
General and university students - ᵺ310
High school students and yonger, and persons aged 65 or over - freeGroup visitors (20 persons or more) - ᵺ 210

Repearters Passport:
Valid for one year from the date of issue at the National Museum ofNature and Science (Ueno) and Institute for the Nature Study(Meguro) as well as the Tsukuba Botanical Garden.

Nights for Astronomical Observation
The programs are oﬀered from sunset on clear nights, on the second
Saturday of each month. Resevation by phone is requested theprevious day. Participation fee is equivalent to the Admission fee.

Directions of the Garden
Orientation
Building
The Building is situated at theentrance. It provides special
exhibitions, and infomation
for the Garden and plants
cultivated through posters,monitors, internets and books.

By car:ʻAmakubo ni-choume kitaʼ crossing on Higashi Oh-dori is entrance
to the garden. Free parking is available.

By train, bus, taxi:
the nearest bus stops are the Tsukuba-shokubutsuen-mae(Tsukuba Botanical Garden) stop and Amakubo ni-choume stop.
Buses are available at the Tsukuba Bus Center near The Tsukuba
TX station. By taxi it takes about ﬁve minutes from Tsukuba TX
station (ca.3km)
Mt.Tsukuba

Workshop andExhibition Building
The exhibition “InteractingBiodiversity”, a seminer roomfor various educational
programs and resting spaces
are holded.

TSUKUBA
BOTANICALGARDEN

University of Tsukuba

Tsukuba
Bus Center
Tsukubashokubutsuenmae
TSUKUBA
BOTANICALGARDEN
Amakuboni-choume kita

Amakuboni-choume

TsukubaStationTX
Sasagicrossing

AmakuboPark

Natural History
Collection Wing
Open SpaceTsuchiuraStation

Higashi Oh-doriJhoban HWY[Open Space on the ground floor isonly visitable]

The outline of herbarium
collections of the National
Museum of Nature andScience can be seen.

SakuraTsuchiura.I.C

JR Jhoban Line

Higashi Oh-dori

Arakawaoki Station

Address
Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science
4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, 305-0005, Japan
TEL:029-851-5159 http://www.tbg.kahaku.go.jp

EnglishVersionMAP

Out of over 7,000 plant species conserved in The Tsukuba Botanical Garden, around 3,000 species are
exhibited in two areas, “Wold Vegetation Area” and “Human and Biodiversity Area”.

World Vegetation Area
Science andEngineering
Collection Building

Department ofBotany Building

WestGate

You can experience world’s plant diversity in the various
vegetations areas.
Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest

Montane Grassland Area

consists of plants commonly observed in western
lowland Japan,such as Camellia, Castanopsis,Machilus, Quercus.

composed of plants in wind-beaten areas, arid volcanic
areas and pastures in regions ranging from warm-temperate (W9) and cool-temperate (W10) zones.

Temperate Coniferous Forest

Rockery Area

consists of trees in humid regions mainly at medium
elevation in Japan, such as fir, hinoki cypress andcedar trees.

composed of plants (e.g. chrysanthemums) growing
on coastal cliffs (W11), banks of mountain streams
and landside scars of subalpine belts (W12).

Research Wing

Warm-temperate Deciduous Broad-leaved Forest

Aquatic Plants Area

Natural History
Collection Wing
Administration Open Space
Building

consists of plants commonly observed at secondary
vegetation in lowland Japan.

features plants growing in aquatic environments suchas lakes of highland and lowlands, paddy fields andhigh moor.

Cool-temperate Decidous Broad-leaved Forest

Savanna House

Workshop andExhibition Building

consists of plants commonly observed at montanousvegetation in northeastern Japan, such as beech andmaples.

with a collection of plants native to tropical andsubtropical arid regions, such as cacti, cycads,euphorbias, and aloe.

Shrub Area

Tropical Rain Forest House

Multipurpose
Houseconsists of plants typically observed in the sunnyverge of forest, rocky and wind-beaten areas, such asazaleas.

containing Lowland and Montane Rain ForestHouses, with palms, orchids, aroids, and others of theAsia-Pacific region.

Sandy and Gravelly Area

Aquatic Plants House

composed of plants include shrubs (e.g.willow androse) growing on river beds, riverfornt forests (W7),and sandy beaches(W8).

comprising Tropical Aquatic Plants Room, Mangrove
Plants Room and Aqua Slope showing aquatic plants’pollination systems.

CentralCircle

Human and Biodiversity Area
The Zone conveys importance of plant diversity supporting
human life and culture.

Clematis
GardenPromenade

Orientation
Building

EndangeredPlantsHouse

Tropical Resource Plants House
with collection of useful plants, e.g.ornamentals andfruits, including bananas, cacao, vanilla and traveler’spalm.

Temperate Resource Plants Area, East

Endangered Plants Area

Plants used for cloth, foods (wilds and vegetables),housing, medicines and traditional culture andcermony in Japan.

Plants treated as endangered species native toprimarily the temperate and partly the subtropical ofJapan.

Temperate Resource Plants Area, Central

Mt. Tsukuba Plants Area

features ornamental and fragrant plants such as
roses, handkerchief tree, Christmas rose androsemaries.

exhibits representative plants of Mt. Tsukuba, such as
Saxifraga stolonifera f. aptera and Fagus crenata.

Nursery

Entrance

Parking

Eating and Drinking
AreaToilet

Vending Machine

Toilet forOstomates
Drinking
Fountain

Area: 14 ha

Accessible Toilet
Nursing Room

Tsukuba Research Department(non-public open space)

Temperate Resource Plants Area, West

Fern Garden

Fruit trees, medicinal plants, and ornamental plantsfrom Japan and foreign countries are grown anddisplayed in this area.

displays a collection of ferns from temperate Japan tothe Himalayan region, e.g.Japanese royal fern,autumn ferns.