Monet’s Garden Marmottan in Kitagawa, Japan

Complete with water lilies and weeping willows, visiting this series of gardens boast over 70,000 different plants. Walking through it feels like into an Impressionist painting, and for good reason. Rather than attempting to copy the gardens from Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, these gardens in Japan’s Kōchi Prefecture have actually brought the artist’s paintings to life. There are three separate gardens that aim to capture three periods in Monet’s artistic style. The most iconic is probably the Water Garden, which is inspired by his famous paintings of water lilies….

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