Kirk here with news about Kumamoto City’s botanical garden (part of the zoo near Ezuko; 動植物園). Starting tomorrow the botanical garden will reopen with a flower bed of 90,000 flowers. The current arrangement will continue (presumably with some seasonal adjustments) until May 22. There will also be exhibits about the flora and fauna of the Ezuko area.
I don’t plan to go tomorrow (I prefer to avoid crowds) but I’m pretty sure my wife and I will make a point of checking it out before it closes.
All of the sources I was able to find are in Japanese but, even if you’re not a confident speaker of the language, the video in the NHK article should give you a good idea of what to expect.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/kumamoto/20220317/5000015032.html https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20220317003082.html https://kumanichi.com/articles/590079
