Katori-shi Aquatic Botanical Garden
	Starting point Distance Address Phone Number Open Closed Admission (@Aug. 2000) Route map *Iris Festival Lotus Festival	Left bank 37.7Km point of the Tonegawa River 3,100m 1837-2 Ohgishima Katori-City Chiba-pref. 0478-56-0411 9:00a.m. - 4:30p.m.(No entry after 4:00p.m.) 8:00a.m. - 7:00p.m.(in the iris festival period*) Mondays (excluding Mondays on May through August) Year end and New Year(December 28 through January 4) Adults: 500 yen(May through August excluding Iris Festival*) Adults: 200 yen(September through April) Adults: 700 yen(In the iris Festival* period) Elementary School/Junior High School Students: half-rate Iris Festival is held from the last Saturday of May to the last Sunday of June every year. Lotus Festival is held from the middle of July to the middle of August.
This Garden is the biggest iris garden in the East, and it has the most kinds of lotus in Japan. There are 1.5 million irises( 400 kinds of iris), and 300 kinds of lotuses.
It was at a finishing period of bloom of lotuses, when I visited here on the end of August.		More than 300 kinds of the Lotus come out one after another in July and August.
	Otone Museum Address Phone Number Open Closed Admission for Permanent Display Admission for Admission for Special Display (@Aug. 2000) Route map	4500 Sawaraha Katori-City Chiba-pref. 0478-56-0101 9:00a.m. - 4:30p.m. Mondays(excluding Mondays that are national holidays in which case museum close on the day following) Year end and New Year(December 28 through January 4) Adults: 200 yen University/High School Students: 100 yen Junior High School Students and under: Free Persons over 65: Free Persons with disability: Free Adults: 300 yen University/High School Students: 150 yen Junior High School Students and under: Free Persons over 65: Free Persons with disability: Free Situated adjacent to the Katori-shi Aquatic Botanic Garden.
There is the Otone Museum adjacent to the garden. The nature and history of the Tonegawa River is displayed. And the agriculture in Chiba is displayed.