Korakuen Gardens - Okayama

The Korakuen Gardens are the main tourist attraction in Okayama.  I was glad to make a stop there and visit the beautiful and extensive formal gardens.  I was wishing I could be there in Spring as there were massed iris and groves of flowering plums and cherries and long pagodas covered with wisteria.  There were some tinges of autumn colours but I was too early for the maples. 

The gardens  are popular with locals as there were school children playing, men in dark suits in tour groups and couples posing for photographs in traditional Japanese clothing.