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Autumn Color Report 2009 by japan-guide.com This are the official japan-guide.com autumn color reports for 2009 from our trips to various autumn leaf spots across Japan. Check our page on Autumn Leaves for general information. previous post index next post 2009/11/23 - Nara by francois After about a week of reporting from Kyoto, today I checked out the fall colours ("koyo") in Nara. I only had time to see a couple of Japanese gardens in the center of the city near Nara Park before leaving to investigate attractions not related to koyo elsewhere in Nara Prefecture. I was pleasantly surprised at both locations by a fair amount of colour. The first garden was the Yoshikien Garden, which is free to enter for foreigners. There was a pond area, tea house buildings, and some paths with red maples hanging overhead that are at their peak. The garden's main area is a moss garden that also has maple trees that are at their autumn colour peak. Bright red maple trees over the paths of Yoshikien Koyo in Yoshikien's Moss Garden Just a few steps away was the Isuien Garden, which unfortunately had an admission fee (650 yen). The garden was quite a bit bigger though, and had rock paths across the water and large hills. One of the gates of Todaiji Temple and the nearby Wakakusa Mountain are visible from the garden and are used as borrowed scenery. Isuien also had maple trees at full bloom, as well as bright red shrubs, which were starting to lose a lot of their leaves. Autumn colours at Isuien Garden, with Todaiji and Wakakusa Mountain as borrowed scenery Red shrubs along the paths are starting to lose their leaves Maple leaves surround a small waterfall previous post index next post List of Posts: 2009/12/08 - Tokyo 2009/12/02 - Kamakura 2009/11/27 - Tokyo 2009/11/26 - Kyoto 2009/11/25 - Kyoto: Light Up 2009/11/23 - Nara 2009/11/22 - Kyoto: Ohara 2009/11/21 - Kyoto 2009/11/19 - Kyoto: Arashiyama 2009/11/18 - Tokyo 2009/11/18 - Kyoto: Higashiyama 2009/11/16 - Kyoto: Kurama 2009/11/16 - Mount Takao (Takaosan) 2009/11/12 - Kyoto 2009/11/09 - Fuji Five Lakes 2009/11/04 - Hakone 2009/10/28 - Mount Fuji 2009/10/19 - Nikko 2009/10/16 - Onuma Park 2009/10/15 - Noboribetsu Onsen 2009/10/14 - Shikotsu-Toya National Park 2009/10/07 - Hachimantai 2009/10/06 - Mount Akita-Komagatake 2009/10/05 - Nikko 2009/09/30 - Kusatsu Onsen 2009/09/28 - Kamikochi 2009/09/24 - Oze National Park 2009/09/16 - Tokachidake Onsen 2009/09/15 - Ginsendai 2009/09/14 - Mount Asahidake

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