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Recent trip to Japan

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My girlfriend and I have recently come back from Japan, while we were over the we visited a beautiful Bonsai village with some wonderful gardens, I took alittle GoPro video of one of the gardens that had some amazing tree's. Hope you enjoy the footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CaSQsea0XM



just this last weekend, we visited a Garden where my girlfriend used to help out and we picked up this fantastic tree. I had seen it about 12 months ago and loved it, saw it again and had to buy it
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Re: Recent trip to Japan

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Great video! Where was the village?
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Thymetraveller wrote:Great video! Where was the village?
Footage is Mansei-en nursery Omiya.
See the 2000 yr old Juni in centre of frame at 5:30. :shifty:
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Thymetraveller wrote:Great video! Where was the village?
Place called Omiya
http://www.stib.jp/e/tourism/omiyabonsai.html

it was an awesome day
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wrcmad wrote:
Thymetraveller wrote:Great video! Where was the village?
Footage is Mansei-en nursery Omiya.
See the 2000 yr old Juni in centre of frame at 5:30. :shifty:
amazing tree's
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Thanks Meanstreak. Inspirational. :clap: Almost sensory overload. Having seen bonsai in Japan, they certainly know how to display their trees.
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Jb1 wrote:Thanks Meanstreak. Inspirational. :clap: Almost sensory overload. Having seen bonsai in Japan, they certainly know how to display their trees.
Cheers

easy as mate, yeah such a beautiful culture, people were awesome and the sites where amazing

Needed to pack a larger bag to try to bring them all home lol

as it was we are both into aquariums, so went to Niiagta also, Saw the Armano's Nature Aquarium and we bought home about 45kg of Iwagumi rocks

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Awesome video Meanstreak! Can you tell me how long it took to get here from Tokyo? I'm going to be in Japan over Christmas and New Years :yes:

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Pearcy001 wrote:Awesome video Meanstreak! Can you tell me how long it took to get here from Tokyo? I'm going to be in Japan over Christmas and New Years :yes:

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Hey Pearcy,
took us alittle over an hour to get there, very basic trip :)
well worth it, there are maps of Omiya when you get there, we basically caught the train, and then walked the day, weather was beauitful, and such a great place
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meanstreak wrote:
Pearcy001 wrote:Awesome video Meanstreak! Can you tell me how long it took to get here from Tokyo? I'm going to be in Japan over Christmas and New Years :yes:

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Hey Pearcy,
took us alittle over an hour to get there, very basic trip :)
well worth it, there are maps of Omiya when you get there, we basically caught the train, and then walked the day, weather was beauitful, and such a great place
Cheers mate!

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Pearcy001 wrote:
meanstreak wrote:
Pearcy001 wrote:Awesome video Meanstreak! Can you tell me how long it took to get here from Tokyo? I'm going to be in Japan over Christmas and New Years :yes:

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Hey Pearcy,
took us alittle over an hour to get there, very basic trip :)
well worth it, there are maps of Omiya when you get there, we basically caught the train, and then walked the day, weather was beauitful, and such a great place
Cheers mate!

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make sure u take lots of vids and pics also :)
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