The Bonsai Gallery 盆栽ギャラリー

The Bonsai Gallery houses some 100 mature and 'in-progress' trees; some more than 90yrs old, most 25 - 45 years old. Most of the bonsai have been started as cuttings or seedlings, field grown to develop some size, then container grown to promote a refined style and root system.

If you have an interest in all things Bonsai than here we have a small sample of what is on offer at the gallery.

The trees are large!... some well over 100cm high..

We built the Bonsai Gallery to showcase the best bonsai in the collection. The gallery features many fine specimens of Japanese Black, Red, and White pine, Trident and Japanese Maple, Swamp Cypress, Ficus species, Chinese Elm, Sequoia, and many more.

Japanese Bonsai Tour 2016

The Omiya Bonsai Village (大宮盆栽村, Ōmiya Bonsaimura) in Saitama City is a tranquil neighbourhood two train stations north of Omiya Station. Multiple bonsai nurseries and a superb bonsai art museum are situated along the district's peaceful paths. Private houses in the area typically have a collection of bonsai in their gardens.
In October 2016 we spent an unforgettable day in the village. We booked a tour through Yoshihiro Nakamizu. Yoshi san met us at our hotel in Tokyo. After visiting Kimura's garden, we had a great Japanese lunch at Bonsai Restaurant Omiya.
Omiya Bonsai Village has five bonsai gardens and a bonsai museum. The quality of the bonsai of Kimura, Yamada and Kato san was of the highest level.
Yoshi also introduced us to Kunio Kobayashi who owns a bonsai museum closer to Tokyo. Kobayashi san has more than 1,000 bonsai, again, of a quality we could not have imagined.