The Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden

Sprawling grounds that contain a wide variety of plants and flowers. Beautiful landscaping everywhere. The greenhouse has great decorations with excellent atmosphere that feels like being in a rainforest in the tropic jungle.

Beautiful place, with a large tropical island indoor greenhouse an impressive collection of orchids, as well as a massive terraced landscape that could take you all day to explore. Beautiful year round, but at just the right time, this place is exploding with colour.

FYI you can take a My-Yu bus here and pay half price for the bus showing your passport. With the bus ticket, you get a reduced entry price for the gardens.

Make a day of it by visiting Chikurinji Temple and Godaisan park

Best observatory I have seen. So so beautiful and with some early Sakura too !Museum had incredible architecture. Whole garden is wonderful :) good cafe too

The greenhouse is the main attraction here. Gorgeous presents of orchids and other breeds of flowers. Highly recommended!

It was set up in 1958, one year after the of Dr. Tomitaro Makino, to commemorate his achievements in the field of botany. The garden showcases plants associated with Dr. Makino. 0pen8ng hours : 9am to 5pm. Admission fee is 730yen/ adult.

A good place to know plants, it’s a very big botanical garden with plenty of plants. But make sure you have sufficient energy to walk.

A beautiful garden with great varieties of plants. A pity I had only two hours and a half to go around.
The restaurant has only about 10 tables, so expect to queue up for at least 15 minutes if one comes at lunchtime.

Almost gave this four stars instead of five, mainly for the difficulty in going. There seems to be just one narrow road up a mountain in the middle town. It’s one way at least, although I didn’t know that until I went down. Finding the entrance is not easy.

Once you get there, this is a hell of a Botanical garden. Unlike most I’ve seen in Japan, the action is primarily outside. Therefore, while each season has something to see, your best bets Weill be from mid spring to mid autumn. The indoor part is lovely all year found, but somewhat small compared to others on Honshu.

The outside area is really nice. Be prepared for a LONG and hilly walk though. Bring comfortable shoes! You can get a good basic workout just checking out all the plants!

This botanical garden is really nice. We came because the weather was not great so wanted to kill some time and we spent over an hour here. The gift shop was also great and I got myself some nice postcards.

Really really nice garden! The walk up to the garden was a trip on its on! Really beautiful natural scenery, with an amazing plants and natural scenery! I couldn't even add enough pictures to show how great it is. The greenhouse was absolutely amazing. There was a number of exotic plants and life forms from different countries. I recommend if you are in Kochi city. This is a must!

Incredible beautiful botanic garden. Well maintained, very big and amazing location on top of the Godaisan mountain. Lots of hidden gems to be explored. Be sure to visit the 2 garden shops and restaurant. Chef will make a vegetarian lunch set for you without any hesitation. Absolute recommendation!

Well curated and organized. Good building design too. Great view.

Beautiful garden that you can spend a full day strolling through! Many different plants and vibes in the various sections of the park. Nice places to sit and take in the views.

Beautiful garden , so much to see good plant identification, a day well spent,

Fantastic botanical garden that offers a lot for a a fairly cheap price. Besides the wonder flora that you'll be able to see, you also will learn about Dr. Makino: the father of Japanese botanical research. I highly recommend adding this to your list of things to do in Kochi!

The colors resulted from plants and flowers of more than 3000 species offer the best sights, especially at nights

Very nice and worth the entrance fee but make sure you have enough time!

Wonderful botanical garden with greenhouses and uniquely Japanese displays, too.

Absolutely worth a visit. It is huge with bunch of private areas to hang out

Very beautiful place too bad we went there on the rainny day but still beautiful.