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a vast majority of “Japanese gardens” are scattered all over the world outside of Japan, and all their ingredients - be it ponds, fish, flowers or simple plants - are completely domestic.

Japanese trees deserve much better than that, and this whole article could be worth several thousand words - as translated into a few pictures.

It's to Japan that millions of tourists from all over the globe flock every spring to seek and admire the pink of cherries and the white of plums and apples

Japanese language is so different that even the strongest adjectives (like “unique”) don't even begin to do justice to it.

As for Japan, trains never ceased to be a wonder - in many more than just a technological sense.

In other words, pedestrians - seemingly the most vulnerable member of the triad - are literally never left alone!

Miniaturists, designers, botanists, train drivers - all of them would find something inspiring to come up with a completely original nickname (in particular, train drivers!)

To obtain the coveted membership, Iceland had to dig deep and think out of the box - which, in this case, happened to be exactly inside one box or another!

That must be Iceland's homiest and most unpretentious wonder - so much so that it's successfully hiding in plain sight in the middle of Reykjavik.