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Home to a single 160-year-old wisteria whose violet canopy spreads over a thousand square metres — a spring spectacle so unreal it lights up at night, and whose winter illumination ranks among Japan's best.
A private garden near Kitakyushu where two long tunnels drip with wisteria in a hundred shades of violet, pink, and white — a roughly two-week spring spectacle that draws photographers from around the world.