Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens and Ezu Lake
When a couple's children grow up, it's natural that they stop going to the zoo. After we had grandchildren, they begged us to go, so we went to the Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens on Children's Day (May 5th) for the first time in a long time. Locaiton: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1c6d6XFHroLLcVVL7 The Gardens opens at 9:00 a.m., but there is already a long line by 8:30 a.m. Once inside the Gardems, there was a long line in front of the attractions in the amusement park zone. Attractions seem to be much more appealing to children than animals or plants. In fact, we had visited the Gardens three days earlier with our four-year-old grandson. I thought there would be few people there because it was a weekday, but I was wrong. There were a surprising number of elementary school children there. I think they were on a welcoming school trip. The Gardens is large, safe, and a suitable place for an elementary school trip. The plant zone around the clock tower is a great p...