Large Ginkgo Trees 大きな銀杏の木

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are ginkgo trees at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden. The garden, about 40 acres in Central Tokyo, was opened by the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th century to grow medicinal herbs. In 1877, after the Meiji Restoration, it became a part of Tokyo Imperial University and currently the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science.

Yellow ginkgo leaves have been everywhere across Japan for the last month, and I thought I'd seen enough of them this year, but the trees in the garden were exceptional, so large (i.e., as tall as 30 feet or taller?) and breathtaking!

Ginkgo trees at Koishikawa Botanical Garden 小石川植物園の銀杏

Compare the tree with the interpretive signage in the bottom
写真下部の案内標識と比べてください！

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小石川植物園の銀杏です。今年もう銀杏は十分見たと思っていたのですがこれは別格！10メートル、いやそれ以上の銀杏の黄葉は圧巻でした。

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