Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden

The Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden (神奈川県立フラワーセンター 大船植物園 Kanagawa Kenritsu Furawāsentā Ōfuna Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden located at 1018 Okamoto, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.

The garden was founded in 1961 as the Prefectural Flower Center Ofuna Botanical Garden on a former site of the Kanagawa National Agricultural Experiment Stations. It currently contains about 5,700 species with notable collections of Azalea, Camellia, Iris kaempferi, Paeonia suffruticosa, Paeonia lactiflora, and Selaginella tamariscina.

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Coordinates: 35°20′53″N 139°31′15″E / 35.348036°N 139.520788°E / 35.348036; 139.520788


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