Awaji Hyakudanen was built as a memorial of the Great Hanshin earthquake (1995) on the side of a mountain that had been half taken away in the early 90′s for use as sea-fill during construction to build artificial islands in Osaka Bay (one of them is the Kansai International Airport). One of the of the gardens of Awaji Yumebutai is the 100-level garden” (or in Japanese - hyakudan’en), the garden consists of 100 squares of terraced smaller gardens.
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