A ginkgo tree at Kingenji Temple in Shimane Prefecture's Okuizumo Town is 33 meters tall, has a circumference of more than 6 meters and is said to be over 700 years old. In addition to viewing the ...

01:53 This program is on the seed in side of the fruit of this tree - the ginkgo nut. 01:58 I hadn't tried this delicacy prior to coming to Japan, and never imagined there was any edible part of a ...

Kokubun-ji temple, founded in the 8 th century, is a must-see if you want to explore Takayama's sacred history: the visit includes a three-storey pagoda and a colossal 1,250-year-old ginkgo tree.

In Tokyo, for instance, there were about 50,000 plane trees 35 years ago, but only about half of them are left today. They were once the third most numerous nationwide, after ginkgo and flowering ...